Please ask someone you love before you jump headlong into this scheme.
Ask yourself some very simple questions:
1. Did I feel the need to hold any information back from the people I love? Did I tell them how much I plan on spending?
Your family loves you, they would never do anything to hurt you or hold you back from your dreams. Their concerns are REAL and you need to take it slow and look at things objectively. If you felt the need to hold anything back from them, that is a big red flag.
2. Do I feel excited? Happy? Hopeful? Nervous? All of the above?
You should never make important life decisions based on emotion. Scammers manipulate your emotions. They want you to feel like no one ever thought you could succeed and divide you from the people honestly trying to help.
If you ever got defensive when talking to a loved one, raised your voice, accused them of holding you back, then you are letting your emotions and hopes -maybe even a little greed- take control of you.
3. Do I feel the need to do this RIGHT NOW?
If this were legitimate, it will still be around when you have had a few months to think it over. There will always be real estate, it's not going anywhere. They want YOUR money now.
There are way cheaper and more effective options than paying $2,000-$8,000 for some classes. If you really believe real estate is the place to be, GET A DEGREE FROM A REAL ACCREDITED COLLEGE. A degree is something real! It's not a promise or a hope. An honest school will NEVER promise you that you will get get rich.
Real estate has been around forever, it is nothing new or special. It is a highly leveraged investment into an asset that traditionally DOES NOT GO UP IN VALUE. Real estate keeps up with inflation at best. It is a poor investment because it doesn't produce anything and it will never grow. Companoies grow, innovate and compete. If you "invest" in real estate you are speculating on the price of a piece of property, and you are likely doing it with MONEY YOU DO NOT HAVE.
Only buy something you would be happy to own if you couldn't sell it for 10 years. This is the best money advice I have ever been given and will make you happy in the long term.
4. Why is everyone trying to keep me from making money and being my own boss? I CAN DO IT!
Clam down. Making money is about thinking objectively, being patient and making consistent accurate decisions over a long period of time.
As Warren Buffett said, "Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.."
Thanks for reading. Please listen to the ones who love you.
Just a quick opinion. Attended a 3 day event in San Francisco. Immediately knew it was a mix between time share type sales and pressure sales. They request you bring your spouse or significant other, they request on t he first day that you go home and try to get more credit added to your current credit cards, or apply for more credit cards with lower interest rates. They don't tell you until the end of the 2nd day the pricing for their community group that teaches you how to flip, wholesale and invest in real estate, they say they only allow action takers join, but in reality it is either people that can pay $34000.00 cash or are willing to put $34000 on their credit cards. Shocking, it was $34,000.00. Yes that is right, $34,000.00. They did the guilt sales pitch saying that if you didn't take action this weekend you were not going to be successful in real estate investing, they had a speaker that told sad coincidental stories about his sad life and he tried to relate them to why you should spend $34000 that weekend, and then the sales people... they called part of their team, that try to get you to buy into the program, pressure sales. We saw one lady as we were leaving with 5 different credit cards spread out on the table, maxing out each. So sad that they allow people to do that. We left very disgusted with the whole manipulative sales process they initiated. You can learn to invest in real estate in other less expensive ways. Please don't let others get wealthy by buying into their program and you get into debt $34,000.00 on credit cards. Don't get caught up in the moment. That is what they hope you will do.
Fortune Builders sells dreams. it was a dream I bought that dream hook line and sinker. They tell you how so many people have pulled themselves up by their boot straps and made fortunes and at the same time they continually warn you that they can't promise anything. I should have listened to to the disclaimers and run but I wanted it to be true, I needed it to be true. I took the 3 day seminar and it was pretty awesome. For my $200.00 dollar investment I got three wonderful days, I learned a lot and got pretty fired up. I suspected the whole time there was a catch, that they would drop the bomb, that there was sales pitch coming and I was right. By the time the pitch came came I wanted to be in the program but I didn't invest initially.
I submitted an interest card and after the seminar I received a call from Patrick and I told him I couldn't afford the $15,000.00 investment at all and that I had no spare cash. I told him about my mother who was disabled that I supported and how hard I worked just to make to ends meet and keep us both in our homes. I told him I was in debt and just couldn't afford it. Patrick told me they wanted to help me, that it was what they do, help people. It was the whole premise behind their program afterall. I remember driving home that day and being so impacted by the young guy on the phone and his truly heart warming words that I cried to think a big company like that was willing to reach out to someone like me and help me become successful even though I couldn't afford it.
For the next month I spoke to Patrick pretty regularly and he helped me apply for another credit card, gave me the script to use with my bank to increase my limits and guided me to websites that could help me increase my credit score. He got me a free 2 month subscription to their website that was normally $100.00 a month. It wasn't just that I had to pay the $15,000.00 fee I had to be accepted into the Mastery Program and he helped me prepare for the acceptance interview too and when Patrick felt I was ready he referred me and I passed the interview. It took 3 credit cards for me pay the $15,000.00. The whole time I kept thinking about the payments I would have to make but I was assured it was an investment in my furture. I should have listened to all those warnings running through my head.
The program is all on-line and it is a lot of work, hours of seminars and self led training classes and videos. I was to receive 6 coaching lessons with my paid tuition to the Mastery Program and as I studied and watched video after video my first coach gave me a reading assignment of two books to read (I had to go and buy those at the book store) and more training classes to take. I started getting phone calls about setting up my business, busniness name, etc.. and I took a class about buying bandit signs, buying business cards, hiring employees, and signing up for another Fortune Builders website (another $100.00 a month.). Within just a couple weeks I had to start making payments, the interest on $15,000.00 isn't cheap and those minimum payments from three cards had to be made along with food, gas, water, and electricity, helping my mom financially and there was that new credit card payment asw ell. The hundred dollars a month for the website started being added to my credit card. I realized pretty quickly I had made a big mistake that I couldn't afford. I had to get another job to keep up with the payments but I fell behind and was late a couple times. My credit score plummeted, the banks started calling and freezing my credit cards and lowering my limits. 6 months later and I am on the verge of losing my house and am aproaching $30,000.00 doallars of credit card debt.
I contacted Fortune Builders and they refunded the website charges since I had never used the website I was being charged for but the 14 days had long since elapsed on the $15,000.00 investment I had made. Fortune Builders didn't build anything but my disappointment, it has destroyed my credit worthiness and sunk me deep into dept. I never did finish the program or take another coaching session because it interferred with working to pay my bills and pay off my debts. What I've learned is don't invest unless you have extra cash to make investments with. I wish I had never attended that 3 day seminar because it has ruined my life.
FortuneBuilders, Inc. Reviews
Please ask someone you love before you jump headlong into this scheme.
Ask yourself some very simple questions:
1. Did I feel the need to hold any information back from the people I love? Did I tell them how much I plan on spending?
Your family loves you, they would never do anything to hurt you or hold you back from your dreams. Their concerns are REAL and you need to take it slow and look at things objectively. If you felt the need to hold anything back from them, that is a big red flag.
2. Do I feel excited? Happy? Hopeful? Nervous? All of the above?
You should never make important life decisions based on emotion. Scammers manipulate your emotions. They want you to feel like no one ever thought you could succeed and divide you from the people honestly trying to help.
If you ever got defensive when talking to a loved one, raised your voice, accused them of holding you back, then you are letting your emotions and hopes -maybe even a little greed- take control of you.
3. Do I feel the need to do this RIGHT NOW?
If this were legitimate, it will still be around when you have had a few months to think it over. There will always be real estate, it's not going anywhere. They want YOUR money now.
There are way cheaper and more effective options than paying $2,000-$8,000 for some classes. If you really believe real estate is the place to be, GET A DEGREE FROM A REAL ACCREDITED COLLEGE. A degree is something real! It's not a promise or a hope. An honest school will NEVER promise you that you will get get rich.
Real estate has been around forever, it is nothing new or special. It is a highly leveraged investment into an asset that traditionally DOES NOT GO UP IN VALUE. Real estate keeps up with inflation at best. It is a poor investment because it doesn't produce anything and it will never grow. Companoies grow, innovate and compete. If you "invest" in real estate you are speculating on the price of a piece of property, and you are likely doing it with MONEY YOU DO NOT HAVE.
Only buy something you would be happy to own if you couldn't sell it for 10 years. This is the best money advice I have ever been given and will make you happy in the long term.
4. Why is everyone trying to keep me from making money and being my own boss? I CAN DO IT!
Clam down. Making money is about thinking objectively, being patient and making consistent accurate decisions over a long period of time.
As Warren Buffett said, "Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.."
Thanks for reading. Please listen to the ones who love you.
Just a quick opinion. Attended a 3 day event in San Francisco. Immediately knew it was a mix between time share type sales and pressure sales. They request you bring your spouse or significant other, they request on t he first day that you go home and try to get more credit added to your current credit cards, or apply for more credit cards with lower interest rates. They don't tell you until the end of the 2nd day the pricing for their community group that teaches you how to flip, wholesale and invest in real estate, they say they only allow action takers join, but in reality it is either people that can pay $34000.00 cash or are willing to put $34000 on their credit cards. Shocking, it was $34,000.00. Yes that is right, $34,000.00. They did the guilt sales pitch saying that if you didn't take action this weekend you were not going to be successful in real estate investing, they had a speaker that told sad coincidental stories about his sad life and he tried to relate them to why you should spend $34000 that weekend, and then the sales people... they called part of their team, that try to get you to buy into the program, pressure sales. We saw one lady as we were leaving with 5 different credit cards spread out on the table, maxing out each. So sad that they allow people to do that. We left very disgusted with the whole manipulative sales process they initiated. You can learn to invest in real estate in other less expensive ways. Please don't let others get wealthy by buying into their program and you get into debt $34,000.00 on credit cards. Don't get caught up in the moment. That is what they hope you will do.
Fortune Builders sells dreams. it was a dream I bought that dream hook line and sinker. They tell you how so many people have pulled themselves up by their boot straps and made fortunes and at the same time they continually warn you that they can't promise anything. I should have listened to to the disclaimers and run but I wanted it to be true, I needed it to be true. I took the 3 day seminar and it was pretty awesome. For my $200.00 dollar investment I got three wonderful days, I learned a lot and got pretty fired up. I suspected the whole time there was a catch, that they would drop the bomb, that there was sales pitch coming and I was right. By the time the pitch came came I wanted to be in the program but I didn't invest initially.
I submitted an interest card and after the seminar I received a call from Patrick and I told him I couldn't afford the $15,000.00 investment at all and that I had no spare cash. I told him about my mother who was disabled that I supported and how hard I worked just to make to ends meet and keep us both in our homes. I told him I was in debt and just couldn't afford it. Patrick told me they wanted to help me, that it was what they do, help people. It was the whole premise behind their program afterall. I remember driving home that day and being so impacted by the young guy on the phone and his truly heart warming words that I cried to think a big company like that was willing to reach out to someone like me and help me become successful even though I couldn't afford it.
For the next month I spoke to Patrick pretty regularly and he helped me apply for another credit card, gave me the script to use with my bank to increase my limits and guided me to websites that could help me increase my credit score. He got me a free 2 month subscription to their website that was normally $100.00 a month. It wasn't just that I had to pay the $15,000.00 fee I had to be accepted into the Mastery Program and he helped me prepare for the acceptance interview too and when Patrick felt I was ready he referred me and I passed the interview. It took 3 credit cards for me pay the $15,000.00. The whole time I kept thinking about the payments I would have to make but I was assured it was an investment in my furture. I should have listened to all those warnings running through my head.
The program is all on-line and it is a lot of work, hours of seminars and self led training classes and videos. I was to receive 6 coaching lessons with my paid tuition to the Mastery Program and as I studied and watched video after video my first coach gave me a reading assignment of two books to read (I had to go and buy those at the book store) and more training classes to take. I started getting phone calls about setting up my business, busniness name, etc.. and I took a class about buying bandit signs, buying business cards, hiring employees, and signing up for another Fortune Builders website (another $100.00 a month.). Within just a couple weeks I had to start making payments, the interest on $15,000.00 isn't cheap and those minimum payments from three cards had to be made along with food, gas, water, and electricity, helping my mom financially and there was that new credit card payment asw ell. The hundred dollars a month for the website started being added to my credit card. I realized pretty quickly I had made a big mistake that I couldn't afford. I had to get another job to keep up with the payments but I fell behind and was late a couple times. My credit score plummeted, the banks started calling and freezing my credit cards and lowering my limits. 6 months later and I am on the verge of losing my house and am aproaching $30,000.00 doallars of credit card debt.
I contacted Fortune Builders and they refunded the website charges since I had never used the website I was being charged for but the 14 days had long since elapsed on the $15,000.00 investment I had made. Fortune Builders didn't build anything but my disappointment, it has destroyed my credit worthiness and sunk me deep into dept. I never did finish the program or take another coaching session because it interferred with working to pay my bills and pay off my debts. What I've learned is don't invest unless you have extra cash to make investments with. I wish I had never attended that 3 day seminar because it has ruined my life.