I used to run our local REIA group for years. And from time to time we would have folks come to our meetings and try to just stand at the door handing out their business cards to our members and attendees as they came in. It didn't add anything of value to our meeting, and really kind of ticked off our vendor members who has invested in a membership in order to be able to present their business offerings to our members. So we had a policy basically across the board that only approved vendor members could give out their materials to our folks at our meetings.

Then I had this one lady who wanted to offer herself as a hard money lender and she kept putting her business cards on the table reserved for our vendor members. And I just picked up her stuff whenever I saw it and trashed it. Didn't make her happy…and she didn’t understand why, if her hard money could be useful to our members, she would be prohibited from sharing it. But the bottom line is, we worked hard and made noteworthy investments of both time and money to earn the respect and trust of our members…and to get them to attend our meetings…and for someone to show up and basically try to get a free ride off all our hard work and money invested just seems disrespectful and shady.

Now I'm not saying you were being shady…nor am I saying it's an apples-to-apples comparison. But I'm sure whoever the lady was at Matt's event that you encountered was feeling similarly…cause from her perspective you just showed up out of now where, and started presenting cards to their paying attendees. And even though it may seem an innocent approach from your perspective, do you see how from their perspective it could seem as if you're wanting to benefit from the hard work, money and time they invested to get their students to attend their event? Or at the very least potentially cause some level of confusion and disruption to their meeting?

You may not see it this way — if I were the offended party, I might not either. But I urge you to try and see it objectively. And I can assure you with near certainty that if you showed up at ANYONE'S meeting and wanted to pass out your business cards for ANY reason, you'd almost certainly be challenged, stopped and thwarted similarly.

I'd also like to point out that your “thumbs down review” isn't really of Matt's bootcamp – which you didn't attend. But of your experience with his gatekeeper keeping you from soliciting their students on-site. There is a difference.

Thanks for posting, and I hope you take this as a friendly rebuttal, as it's intended.

My best,

…jp

I am a real estate investor in Phoenix where Matt Scott came to town in May 2010 with his Private Money Boot Camp. After hearing his speech/pep-talk about how he would teach me/you/anyone on how to legally/properly raise private money, I was jazzed to say the least.

But, since I didn't have the almost $4,000.00 for his two day boot camp, I thought the next best thing would be to try and HIRE the people he was training.

On May 2, 2010 I went to the place he was having his boot camp and tried to hand out my business cards to his students, telling them that once they were done with the class that I wanted to hire them.

Almost immediately some snotty woman came up and demanded to know who I was and what I was doing. I responded by stating that I was looking to HIRE Matt's students and then asked, “Isn't that GOOD for YOUR business?”

This snotty woman then actually started taking my business cards away from students and told me I couldn't hand them out and had to leave.

What is Matt Scott so ashamed of that he doesn't want the people that spend almost $4,000.00 on his course to actually get hired to use what he teaches?????

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That was my baseline for years and now a lot of my investor base is conditioned to make that much. Great tip!

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