137 of 142 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
It's all a commercial for his $3000 training packages, November 24, 2004
This review is from: How to Be a Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire: Make Fast Cash with No Money, Credit, or Previous Experience (Paperback)
Don't buy this book!
I was really excited when I bought this book: "Make Fast Cash with No Money, Credit or Previous Experience". It looked like it could deliver what it promised, and a quick scan of the chapters convinced me that this was the real deal.
When I sat down to read the first chapter or two, I thought the material was good, but thin. In the first 60 pages, 20 are either blank or full-page testimonials of LeGrand's training courses (not testimonials of this book, but of his other courses - which should have tipped me off). There were also several statements like, "Well, I could write a whole book on this topic, but since I can't include it all here, this (short explanation) will have to do". It was a little frustrating, getting excited about a subject and then getting cut off that way with only a little bit of information.
When I hit page 62, I knew I'd been had. I read, ""Yes, I
know that was a shameless commercial..." "I'd prefer
you don't take the information in this book and
implement it with no further training." "...do
yourself a favor and don't expect miracles from a
book."
What ever happened to "Make Fast Cash with No Money, Credit or Previous Experience"? "Don't expect miracles from a book" certainly wasn't pasted all over the cover in big letters! Then, on the same page, were advertisements for his $3000 real estate courses.
I had paid $21.95 for Ron LeGrand to advertise to me! What he did has been done many times before (read any of Wade Cook's books): put out "teasers" in a book, say how much someone can make from all of these ideas, then don't give them enough information to implement them without paying thousands for additional training.
I sent an email to his organization saying the same thing. One week later: no response, no apology, no defense of their shameless advertising ploy.
I am disgusted with LeGrand's dishonest "bait and switch" tactics, and I hope everyone who sees this learns from my mistake.
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44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Love watching infomercials? Now you can own one!, August 1, 2005
This review is from: How to Be a Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire: Make Fast Cash with No Money, Credit, or Previous Experience (Paperback)
It's interesting that reviewers mostly either rated this book one star or five, and almost nothing in between. Seems like evidence that the book actually merits one star, and the five star reviews may have been written by those with added incentive. Even the language of the five-star reviews mimics the language of the book exactly, as though the book's author or someone from the organization wrote them.
I actually borrowed the book from the library before deciding whether to buy it, to see if the material was worth keeping around for future reference. Without even having spent anything on it, I still felt used, like I was suckered, because I invested my time in it. It's even structured in the same way as an infomercial, with a page of enticement alternating with a page of personal testimonials from seminar attendees. (And by the way, the MIS seminar frequently mentioned in these testimonials costs $7,000! I looked it up on Ron LeGrand's website, mentioned once every few pages in the book.)
To be fair, there is some actual information in the book, albeit prefaced by constant disclaimers that further investment in training is necessary to be able to apply these principles. But something in one of the testimonials led me to believe that there's probably not much to his exorbitant seminars either. Here is an actual quote from p. 54: "The prior residents were supposed to buy it for $152,000 - we figured we would increase the price to $159,900 - but on your CD (the timing of when we listened to that particular one couldn't have been better!) you said to make sure we "research" market values BEFORE we put a price on a home...we ended up asking $168,999..." Now, that is a no-brainer (duh!). If that's the kind of additional training we get from paying thousands for CDs and seminars, I'll stick with a book borrowed from the library, or maybe just my common sense...
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56 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your time with this garbage, January 22, 2005
This review is from: How to Be a Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire: Make Fast Cash with No Money, Credit, or Previous Experience (Paperback)
I seriously suspect that people who gave 5 star reviews for this book work for the author or publisher. This book is nothing but a plug for his real estate courses. Believe me, buying this book will make the author, LeGrand, millionare not you.
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