Locking in at a discount like that is a textbook play on patience and striking at the right time.

Alternatives are college courses, textbooks, and engagement through web searches.  

This is the textbook definition of penny wise and pound foolish.

And there are real estate text books, many used in business schools, as well as building trade books, magazines, youtube videos.

She jumped into the BRRR method and found some unexpected challenges, but also some great successes.When I started out, I realized that having a solid network was more valuable than any textbook could teach me.

It is not very difficult or complicated to evaluate commercial real estate, there are plenty of good books available that can teach you how, textbooks, online courses, community college classes, even excellent youtube videos etc, and it is actually quite enjoyable in the process to learn.

It’s right out of the crazy scammer text book, and what’s so scary about it is that each step makes sense at the time.

If he switches to another supplier, you will have decreased supply (and the other suppliers will raise prices) and transaction friction (changing suppliers, changed transportation, cost of getting out of existing contracts, etc.) will raise prices as well.Time to dust off your old Econ 101 textbook. 

In a text book case you'd buy a property for half of its ARV (after repair value) and then spend 25% of ARV on rehab and generate 25% equity.

This appears to be a text book case of this.