Hi, I'm currently educating myself in various aspects of property investment (with some but limited experience), through reading and sites such as this. I'm also considering whether to pay for a course. I would love to hear your thoughts on the pros and cons of different courses and whether you think the 'pro's' can be achieved independently through reading and research. I feel confident that alot of the theory of property development strategies can be gained from reading widely on the subject (without going on a course) but the practical tools (e.g insights and templates for costs for executing specific strategies such as subdivisions) and mentoring seem attractive. I'm very interested to hear your thoughts. Regards,
What are you wanting to get out of a course? Do you think that it will give you the tools to achieve your goals? What do you think that you will get from a short/long/expensive course vs freely available info on this and other websites?
Thanks for the reply, these are good questions that are relevant and I'm aware of. If you have any insight to the pro's and con's of specific courses versus alternate sources of building knowledge it would be good to hear them.
I listened to a lot of pocasts and read some books, seemed to work for me. Regular Podcasts help keep me focused on my goals and keep me up to date on current issues. Property couch, Margaret Lomas etc.
Not all courses will be bad, but I would strongly recommend to stay away from anything where the course isn't the highest level they offer. If there's a higher offer, then the course won't be teaching you everything they know and they'll try and likely upsell a mentorship or whatnot on top. Search for Mike Winnet on YouTube. He has a great 10 minute video called "The Contrepreneur Formula Exposed". Again, not all courses will be like that, but many will be.
Formal qualifications eg real estate, building, project management, town planning, trades licence, drafting etc all take time and can cost $X0,000 Spruikers courses/mentoring etc cost $$ and often of dubious value, not formally recognised.
