3 Day Mega Conference opinion.

Interesting to read all the comments, both positive & not so positive…..

A few thoughts;

The Tax Liens were, I thought, pretty well explained. Most of the issues bought up by Magbof were covered in either the keynote or workshop. If fact, they emphasised that the purpose was not to get to own the property, and to select liens that you would expect to be paid out. As other people have commented, do the due diligence……

Sales pitches – yep, there were sales pitches but as Steve said more than once, people have found a system that works for them, and want to make some money out of it. If I found such a system, I'd most likely do the same. You're not obliged to actually buy anything.

Dean and Elise Parker strike a chord with me whenever I hear them talk. I have an IT background and what they've done is systemise renos to a frightening degree (maybe it takes another IT guy to realise this!). You'll never guarantee that you can make money doing a reno, but they've got the tools to minimise the risk of everything you control as much as possible (product endorsement warning! I have the earlier version of their tools, and it rocks!). Elise' workshop on how they organised themselves was a great benefit.

Aussie Rob. I must admit, I snuck out into the CBD and had a long lunch break when he was on. I'd heard him speak before….My investing background's in shares and I think a good of good technical analysis books would be a better investment.

The highlights with Steve's conferences are the 'left field' people he finds, with no obvious connection to property, and gets to present. Ron White was great (most attendees will long remember tomatoes, clocks, telephone etc. for a long time), and Peter Koulizos couldn't be accused of hyping himself (well, I have this book……. was about the limit of his product promotion)
Finally, you may not like or be interested in everything that's presented, but isn't that part of the learning process? Learning what you don't want to do, as wel as what you do want to do?

my memory is fading…
tomato, clock, telephone, mobil, wanted, ?, ?, organiser, soldier, ?
someone finish it please.

10 out of 10 jleong! I bought it too. Might be a big call but probably the only product that everyone should have gone home with! Best value for the $ product of the day!

This was the first conference I have ever been to and whilst I really enjoyed quite a lot of it, I’m not sure I’d attend again.

Having spent money on airfare, accommodation and of course the ticket itself, I expected that I would learn a lot, like I do from Steve’s books. I came along hoping to find out more about investing in the US, and to sort out in my mind how to implement the various strategies I had been reading about.

The first session, and to be fair any of the Steve McKnight sessions, was brilliant – just what I needed and just what I was looking for. The Pat Mesiti stuff was good – provided you ignored hype for his product. And Ron the memory guy was fab.

But the blatant sales pitches of some of the others after a time was simply too much to bear – and their so called discounted prices were clearly aimed at the rich and those who have money to burn.

Highlights? Steve of course. Li the Mao’s last dancer guy. Pat Mesiti when you looked past the hype. Lowlights? There was one clear winner… drum roll… Peter Daniels. The man was soooooo terribly boring. I took the opportunity to skip his sessions and talk to people in the expo.

If the next conference is going to be more of the same, I suspect I respectfully will decline to attend. I don’t need to pay that much for blatant sales pitches… but if the next conference is going to be more about educating the investor (without trying to sell anything) then I would happily be there.

Made me laugh Dwolfe! I did that same drive regularly when I was younger also. Was hard enough without being drilled by my elders. I feel your pain.

Hi everyone.

WAs my first conference.

Really good and useful… Steve, koulizos (how many others actually put their rep on the line and tell you the best places to buy and his undersold product was under $40), carly, parkers, rolton, tax lien guy

most productive time of the conference… Peter daniels talking. I zoned out and used the time to form my business and property plan for the next three years. He seems to really polarise opinions. The people i was with loved him.

The hyped… Pat, but i would take relationship advice from him, it struck a chord with me and my worst presenter was bqhamas rob. If asic was there they would have taken his license. You can’t sell trading systems giving the impression that there is any certainty of returns. To have any credibility to sell a trading system you need at a minimum a 2 year audited trading history to prove that it works in live trading. His options trading strategy was presented as a certain to win solution with promises of amazing returns of over 100 percent and no disscussion of the downside of a leveraged trade wiping out your account if it went the wrong way. Last but not least asic would have a field day with him saying that 7 yr olds should be trading.

I was tossing up between results, rolton or carly. I was leaning towards rolton as in his main presentation he said he paid the costs and they shared the profit with the student. someone finally asked to confirm the profit share method in the workshop which was 80/20 in his favour. For those that were there i was the vocal person who said no i didnt think it was a fair deal. At least carly was up front about things and seemed much fairer to those she purchased from with genuine win win deals.
Many of the examples mark stated were. Clearly taking advantage of uninformed sellers that would have been devastated to find out how much he just screwed them out of when rezoning happened and the farm next door sells for twice the price 3 months later.

Hey dwolfe, My next post WAS about the dog experience. Have a look ‘ben vs the dog on the river.’ I put it up last night. I’m totally going to tell that story in my autobiography when I’m a trillionaire from working my way through the big black box.

And as a side note, HOW GOOD WAS PETER DANIELS! if people wanted informative meat, he was it. It may not have been what some were expecting, but listening to him I got so hungry to muster every piece of manhood within me and unleash my leadership potential on the world. His speeches sung like a chorus and his regality was just awesome.

I need to salute something.

Hey DWolfe – on way to work, but will reply this evening…

Fitzydarling – don't apologise, it's all part of your story. Another mum in our mums and bubs class lost her very fit and active  husband to a heart attack at 40, four days after their second child was born premature… needless to say it gave us all a shake up, and we have since organised life insurance for us both – something we had been putting off as being "too depressing".

I also hear you on the photos – we find ourselves taking all thes snaps of our gorgeous little men, but as I am a bit of a chunky bum I avoid being in them. Hubby often says to me that they will miss my being in them when we are gone. I am so very sorry for your loss, and admire your persistance – what an example for your beautiful children!

Cath

fitzydarling,

A great piece of advice. The reason my wife and I got our investing strategies together and pulled our fingers out was because a couple of close friends died way too young (both in their mid-30s/early 40-s) in 2008 and It made us look at what we were doing with our lives. As I've heard repeatedly, look for the 'why' in doing what you're doing and you'll get over the rough patches when they hit you. Our 'why' is to be able to spend time with the people we care about.