Kum Yin, well done.

I think you should be saying ‘Yey me’. You have done more than most people and still prepared to learn more, knowledge is always the key. As for overextending – they are right proceed with caution, however I am sure your idea of risk and overextending is different from theirs.

Jane

lissa,

I spoke at the recent Brisbane seminar and I got alot from the other speakers. As Richard points out questioning motives is always important. To my knowledge none of the speakers got paid to speak. Most are either Reno Kings graduates or interested in helping property investors. Of the 8 speakers there were 3 professionals speaking on legal, accounting and finance. I am a mortgage broker and spoke on both finance ( more so goals and strategy and budgeting then interest rates) and also renovations having just completed our 8th.

Hence you could say the professionals through their presence would get a pay back from participants.

What I found was that the speakers all had something unique and interesting to say and were candid in telling the good and bad of their individual stories. The feedback was that the ladies prsent ( and one man) found the honesty refreshing and the perspective different.

The cost of any seminar is something only you can judge. We paid $4k for a seminar once that without doubt has lead to our multi million dollar portfolio today. I still attend seminars, at least 6 a year and I have not paid over $50 for one in the last 4 years.

There is so much information available sometimes just having the time to get through it is the hardest thing of all, but it is out there and many are prepared to share their knowledge. Who cares what their motivation is, take what you need and choose if you want to use their services. I find the contributors of many of the forums on investment, be they doers or service providers give more than they get, but usually they do this because somewhere in their background they have been given assistance by someone who asked for nothing in return.

Sometimes hearing the stories of others in their words and being able to ask them direct questions is all the motivation many need to get a wriggle on. For others just reading about these success stories is enough, Steve has books dedicated to this, as does Jan Somers one of my favourites is Ordinary Millionaires by Aussie Jim McKnight. I have a list of others on my website that I found handy http://www.investorschoice.com.au

I hope this helps you make up your mind.

Jane Slack-Smith