Smoke and mirrors or does the means justify the ends??


The reason I happen to bring up this topic is I was able to attend a workshop by The Institute of Commercial Real Estate by Cherif Medawar. After a lil more digging around I did find mixed reviews regarding his workshops. Despite the mixed reviews 3-15k is a lot to ask anyone to shovel out at the end of a fairy-tale 1 1/2 hr presentation, don't you think?

Who wrote the reviews is probably a good question.

Only you know if the money you spent was worth it.

Can you get me more info on that workshop? Link?

Commercial real estate is no pie in the sky. I've taken their training after a 2 hour presentation. The best part is the Founder Cherif Medawar has a patent on his system. I checked it out on line and his company has a great website that gives the memebrs access to the retailers looking for space.
I've held land and residential properties for years waiting for appreciation, and the training have transformed the way I do real estate literally 100%.
I wish Medawar was around 20 years ago when I started.
I will tell you however that I did not pay for the $15K field mentorship but I stayed in touch with the lady that paid for it (she is an attorney and she said that it worked great for her) She went to Texas and got a deal no money down on an apartment building at 10% Cap) Apartment buildings are just not my gig and that is also a choice I made while listeing to Cherif Medawar's DVD set, which is also a value added.
To each his own and this was a great investment for me.

I just attended a 3 day seminar by ICRE. It was interesting, you do get some basic information about commercial RE. However, they donot get into any details about different things that they talk about in their 2-1/2 hour free presentation that Cherif made.
I would only recommend this to anyone, if you have $3k that you can part with and won't miss it. Take it as an introductory course to commercial RE. Last day and a half they try to sell you to join this one on one coaching for about $14K, which I did not join since I personally did not see any value. Remember, it is your money and you are the only one that cares for it more than anyone else. Spend it wisely.
Take what they say with a grain of salt.