If you enjoy being berated
If you enjoy being berated, take this course. I want to start by saying that the goal of this course is to get a real estate deal. We, as a team, did get a deal under our belt, and for that, I am eternally grateful. It all goes downhill from here... Along with the 21-day course, there is a meeting that lasts from 2 to 4 hours on a Saturday of each month. There are three of these meetings. These meetings help talk out any problems you may have during the month in finding a deal. The hidden incentive of the apprentice program is that the first team to get a deal gets a trip to an Island. **Remember, this is important later.** Please remember this piece of information. The last part of the partners’ program is titled the FSBO course. I will state right now that I may be getting the verbiage of the course titles confused or even mixed up because the titles of these courses seem to change on a whim. This last aspect of the course is called the partners’ program or the FSBO course; is supposed to: 1. Teach you how to go after FSBO deals 2. Work with three of the most proficient real estate investors within the RealInvestor’s program. The first is Sherman. He is the dean and trainer of all the courses. The second investor is Jesse, who is a real estate agent/ investor. He is also one of the lead agents on the real investors’ team. The third is Howard. We never saw or heard from Howard or Jessie once in the FSBO class. It is currently the year 2021. The housing market is on fire. If you are looking for an SFH (single-family home), you will have difficulty getting a home for the listing price. Any home, mind you. Now getting a house for 75% of ARV is damn near impossible. I think this is what most real estate investors/gurus (any guru) don’t tell you. The goal in real estate investing is to get a home for 75% ARV or less, depending on the shape of the house. When houses are going for over listing when significant repairs are needed, trying to get one under that price is almost impossible. We as a class were never told this could be a factor as to why not one of our offers was accepted. We were made to believe that no one had a deal yet because the entire class was lazy, and we didn’t read the 21-day course. I want to think market conditions are the reason none of the teams in this class got a deal......... except our team. As I said, after sending north of 400 offers, someone accepted our offer. We had physically seen about eight houses by this time, but of the 400 plus offers, one person accepted. Before I get into the nuts and bolts of our deal, I want to say. We were coached OUT of our deal. Other teams were coached through or TO a deal. In the process of writing offers and having constant, NO’s told to us. We were encouraged to see some homes. When we went to see these homes, we were told to tell Sherman to walk us through this. He was going to coach us to “closing the deal.” We constantly asked Sherman to do a walkthrough with us on three occasions he didn’t come on our invites. Not one. UNTIL we received a yes on our offer. Now mind you, he went with other teams out on walkthroughs to homes that didn’t have an accepted offer. Guess whose deals came to fruition? Ours did. Now when he did come to the house on the deal, we were about to close. We were told our deal wasn’t a deal and that we were lucky. As soon as we set a closing date, we were the poster children of the course, website, and Facebook groups. These videos and pictures are still on the website. On the Facebook pages, there are pictures of members of my team holding up giant fake checks with headlines saying, “This team made 34K on their first deal. All the while, we were highly encouraged to back out of the deal. we closed our deal. The only team that did. We never got our trip. In conclusion: I’m not going to tell you to take this course or not. That is not my intention. My intention is to let you know what you are getting into if you take a RealInvestors class. If you live in the D.C. Metro area and you are getting involved with real estate. You will hear Sherman Ragland sooner or later. He will pitch his course to you, and you will think long and hard about paying a few thousand dollars on a course. I am just painting a picture of what to expect. Secondly, I want this course to get better. Oftentimes when self-help individuals make new courses, they create the courses and flesh it out on the fly via videos or zoom sessions, and the first run of the courses is imperfect. The gurus know they are the beta versions. From misspellings in materials, missing emails, websites that host broken links, and files that are not available. These courses are broken, and customers get inferior products. Ramit Sethi does it, and Sherman Raglan does too. The course, while lengthy, is good. The people who help Sherman are not. They need training. They need to be coached as he coaches his students.
By armani35