Russ Whitney
I recently attended one of those Russ Whitney real estate workshop's. The
workshop itself consists of a very slick two hour presentation of the
various techniques that can be used to profit from property but only
really scratches the surface.It's also a sales pitch for the 3-day
course offered by Russ Whitney for anyone prepared to part with over
$2,000(later reduced if you booked up on the spot).
I must admit I nearly succumbed to the temptation to part with my
money in order to find out how this guy does it but I decided to hold
back as I'm not entirely convinced if these techniques will work.
Below is a post from a gentleman I found on Google News. This is what he had to say:
"Need sleeping pills? Forget them, and pick up a book by Russ
Whitney. Russ will put you to sleep, but forget about him
when seeking any Real Estate insight.
Not worth a nickel. Russ seems very nice on tv, but
niceness, by itself, just doesn't cut it. Niceness, a look
of sincerity and down-to-earthiness, does however draw
people like a baited hook draws fish. It's frightening when
someone appears overly nice.
Maybe I should give Russ the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps
his aim is high and his intentions are grand?
Unfortunately his impact falls short. Having read a
book of his, my first doubting impressions of Russ were
soon well-justified.
First of all, Russ spent 30 boring, worthless, nauseating
pages to tell you about the rotten life he had and then
another 10 pages of useless positivity. I'd rather read a
phone book! It would also yield more valuable information.
The book is sufferably slow. I could have wrapped fish with
the pages and had better results. You could put the first 40
worthless pages in one paragraph, but not Russ. He makes
you sweat it out in agony just to find something remotely
close to the focus of and purpose of his book. I got that
impression, after the second page. I knew right there that
Russ was just another paper-wasting seminar idiot. If you treasure time, keep Russ off your bookshelf.
But what's in Russ' book anyway? you ask. Basically Russ
got lucky with a few properties way back when and from that,
he built an entire book on! He tells you how he did it, but
there's really nothing earth-shattering that will hit you on
the head with. You can read just about any other Real
Estate book and get more detailed ideas from it.
His infomercial is way off. Not only can you NOT turn
$1000 into $4.7 mill in just 18 months without luck,
extreme knowledge, and all it takes, but certainly you
CANNOT do it as easily as he will have you believe. Russ
will have you believe "if you can walk and chew bubble-
gum" you can fall over making money. He will even have
you believe that somehow dealing with tenants is fun! So Russ isn't being honest. This DOES frustrate me.
Look, bottom line, it doesn't matter who the author is; we
don't need ideas. You don't lack ideas. What we need and
lack is the many needed step-by-step hard details of those
ideas. This is the important stuff! Ideas are important,
but we all have many brilliant ideas already. But like
programming a VCR, with home buying or any procedure, we
need to know how EXACTLY how to do things.
I got the impression that Russ didn't care beyond getting
your $35. There were only about 6 points I learned from
the entire book - hardly worth $35.00. I agree $35 is not
much, but if you had to pay $35 every time you needed to
learn 6 (six) things, to accomplish your goals, you'd
eventually go broke. I guarantee that Russ will not
teach his children his techniques the same shallow way he
writes his books. If you want to learn anything in life,
you MUST have ALL the details. Anything less and you are
going backwards. You will have just the right amount
of information to really make yourself dangerous to yourself."
Obviously, I don't recommend Russ Whitney
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