How much did you spend on real estate courses?

[javipa]

What happened to jimb6387's post?  That was really good stuff.

Seminars are reduced to information dumps by the unsophisticated.

I flew across the country to attend a seminar on real estate and spent about six thousand for the course, plus air fare and lodging...

The course could have been written up and distributed much cheaper than me showing up.   However, the thing that average people attending an expensive seminar don't value, or take advantage of, is the chance to rub shoulders with successful people in the field.

Ignorant people attend seminars thinking that they're just 'buying a seminar;' taking notes; asking questions; getting answers; and getting jazzed up ...and then missing the biggest opportunity available to them; networking.

I've captured contacts and made valuable friends through seminars I took 20 years ago!!! 

Notwithstanding, the ideas, discussions and resultant camaraderie is an invaluable benefit.  The thing I see is that most of the participants can't figure out their head from a hole in the ground when it comes to the value of networking at these events.   They're mostly the curious, but not the ambitious.  

I attend some seminars with the express purpose of networking.  I'm hard to impress when it comes to real estate related information, and so I value the contacts I can make.  These can be extremely successful, like-minded, and interesting people that show up to these events, because first, they can afford the event...and second they are there for the mutual networking opportunities.  Who knew?

BTW, high priced seminars, by default, sift out the skeptical and idly curious.  What's left are the serious, rabidly interested, and those already involved in the industry.  Thus the higher-end seminars sift in the higher quality contacts.  Just saying.

[Mdhaas]

What happened to jimb6387's post?  That was really good stuff.

Was good stuff, but had too many Forum rule violations.