Hi Jason - I've been part of STR Secrets for over a year.

There are no "secrets" and every scheme has been tried and tried again. 

Here’s the Real Secret: Sellers want to feel understood, not sold to.

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I think a lot of these folks are selling the illusion of secret techniques to get new investors to write a check.

He tells you to pay him $5,000 (or much more) to learn all the "secrets" that made him wealth, but then he doesn't tell you that his "secret" was to increase earnings, reduce expenses, save up and invest.

The next resource Dave gave me was Earl Nightingale's The Strangest Secret.

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I'd rather invest with the local 26 year old who lives in their second house-hack, drives their 10 year old car, and is raising their first small apartment syndication that they will self-manage, putting their own money into the deal, than some 45-year old guru who's secret sauce turned out to be their ability to charm on TikTok, but really, their approach to deals ended up being the "secret" to transforming $300M in real estate into $215M between 2021 and 2025.  

The guru of that particular year will create some secret variation to a time-tested list of tactics that is the flavor of the weak and pretend like this is some new secret invention, perhaps inventing new language to describe tactics that have been around for years. - In the unlikely event that you get a lead, A "motivated seller" who will work with an 18 year old to sell their home, is likely someone dealing with death, disease, divorce, or disaster.