reotish
Manassas,#2Consumer Comment
Wed, February 10, 2010
I am not at all surprised by a representative of the company referring to a customer as "retarded".
I attended the 3 day seminar, which overall offered some decent information. What I didn't like is that the instructor, who bragged about all this money he made (only to find out that he makes less than I do) and DOES NOT ACTIVELY PRACTICE WHAT HE PROMISES TO ALL IN THE CLASS WILL MAKE US A LOT OF MONEY, spent the entire class telling me (to put it nicely) that I'm not smart enough to understand how this works because I refuse to stop thinking like a Realtor. McFly...I AM a Realtor...could explain why I think like one. The real problem is that I think ETHICALLY and HONESTLY. When the instructor, I don't recall his name but he referred to himself as "the one-legged wonder" (he lost a leg in a car accident) said something that seemed illegal or misleading, I called him on it and asked him to explain how it really works. I asked him not speak to us using the glorified sales pitch that makes things sound better than they actually may be. For example, he said that as beginning investors, we can go to ANY seller, offer that seller LESS than what they owe on their mortgage (the equivalent of ruining someone's credit for our own personal gain)...banks are EAGER (his word, not mine) to unload properties, so they'll take what equates to 50 cents on the dollar. That's a bold-faced lie. I asked him to elaborate on what technique we're supposed to use as lay-people to convince a bank to take a loss on a property that is not in distress. Keep in mind, I live and work in Virginia, I know the VA sales contract like the back of my hand. I am short-sale and foreclosure certified and in the five years that I've been in business, 99.99% of my business has been short sales and bank owned property. I have a 98% success rate with all of the distressed listings I've taken. I think I'm just a little more qualified than the instructor to speak on what will or won't fly with a short sale. The "one-legged wonder" flew off the handle and forbade me to speak! He said that I refuse to be open-minded and that I was ruining the experience for the others in the class! The ONLY reason I went for the 3rd day was because I paid for it. His tirade turned a lot of people off....so much so that I was approached by more than half the class and asked to be their mentor AND I'VE NEVER DONE THIS FOR MYSELF!
Robert Kioyosaki may be a very intelligent business person, but he's lending his name to a gang of jack asses. The classes are ridiculously expensive and they try to convince you that you HAVE to spend up to $70,000 to learn the right way to invest in real estate. Instead of paying that kind of money, I suggest taking your $70,000 finding yourself a good real estate agent who's experienced in working with investors, and let that agent show you the ropes for free. Use the $70,000 to purchase your investment property and let the seller pay your agent's commission.
K
Dallas,#3Consumer Comment
Wed, January 13, 2010
Just wanted to say thanks to the people who have posted regarding this workshop...decided to cancel after reading the comments. Thought it all sounded too good to be true and posts confirmed it!
paralegalwerewolf
Boston,#4General Comment
Sat, December 12, 2009
Did you ever get a full refund ? If not, did you file a deceptive
and unfair business practice lawsuit ? which state law usually
allows you up to three years to file.
I2i
Bellevue,#5Consumer Suggestion
Fri, June 12, 2009
Hi, after reading reports I decided to cancell my 3 day seminar ang try to get my money back. Maybe your efforts did have an impact on this company because I was proposed to send my cancellation by fax and given a fax number 810-269-5178 Maybe they don't care about guys who want to get their 500 bucks back and only make it worse for larger ammounts... but wor me customer service has worked out good enough. now I only need to actually get my money back, which will take additional 10 business days... as soon as it is done I'll file a n update Good luck
Lvparalegal
Las Vegas,#6Consumer Comment
Tue, April 14, 2009
...illustrate poor customer service skills. Customers and clients can be annoying, get things wrong, be undeservedly indignant, but any professional knows that one does not publicly laugh at them and/or call them "retarded". I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't represent a company I worked for in the public eye with such behavior. The rebuttal by Rhettr serves to influence me negatively. While I can't speak for anyone else, I just think it's takes away credibility and adds it to the OP.
Rhettr
Orem,#7UPDATE Employee
Tue, April 14, 2009
This is a weeeeeee bit late but I decided to respond anyways. My name is Rhett and I am the supervisor you spoke with back in the day. You simply do not understand due to security reasons agents don't have to give out full information for their names. Equimine was not Rich Dad. So in order for you to cancel the software you would have faxed it to the information on software portion of the contact. When you contact us to cancel your training seminars we would have had no control over that portion anyways so by flamming us you really didn't get anything done. Also, we did provide you with a fax number for our portion to cancel the software membership, that's all we take care of. So stop flamming Equimine and understand that you did not take responsibility or even follow the directions that we had provided to you multiple times. You also did not work with anyone that was speaking with you instead you decided to call them names hang up and contact someone else trying to work your way through the system without even doing anything that we asked. This was not a scam. Simply a retarded individual who was not happy with the software and wouldn't follow directions on how to simply close his account.