FortuneBuilders

If you want to learn real estate investing this is the most complete education program out there. Yes of course you can go to the library (for free) and learn different parts of the business however you don’t always know what to implement or what is still relevant. These guys are actually in the business doing deals every month, they are not some «know it all» Realtor or Investor who can give you 1000 tips on why you should or shouldn’t invest yet has never actually done a successful investment deal themselves. Read their case studies from students from all across the country doing all different types of deals. Keep it up!

the tampa conference was a SCAM
They make you pay $ 99 to end up in a false conference where they encourage you to «apply» for private coaching that costs around $ 20 000.
People were leaving the room asking to be reimbursed !
VERY VERY DISAPPOINTING

Since this review I was reached out to by the CEO and I was extremely impressed! Customer service goes a long way and not enough companies practice genuine customer service. He asked me what were my concerns with the class and listened to my complaints and suggestions on how to make the course better. He had a genuine attitude to wanting to not only help me and my wife in real estate but also make the presentation better for other participants.
I can honestly say that this has changed my attitude to the company and will most likely give this a second chance.

I feel so fortunate to be part of this incredible real estate mastery program.
My husband AND I Joined THE mastery PROGRAM IN August 2015.
We are trained in bootcamps that are held every month in a different state, our online school is incredible. We have webinars with current real estate investing tips. we are coached by very experienced, successful real estate investors every 2 weeks.
We are set up to be successful .
We belong to a group of people of excellence, with integrity, transparency, honesty. A growth mindset.
Worth every penny of investment. They don’t teach you this in business school ir anywhere else.

I was invited by my friend to go to the Fortune Builder Seminar in Tampa FL Dec.11^th as her guest. Now that I’ve gone, I want to give big big thanks to the friend who invited me and to the wonderful presenter Cole Hatter. Cole not only showed us some neat tips about Real Estate Investing, but more importantly, he opened my eyes with his life story and made me realize how precious life is! I know most of the content he mentioned is not his original idea, from the speech format to almost every word he’s saying, they are all part of a carefully structured system, even himself admitted that he’s a great «copycat». However, talking about borrowing the knife, this dude’s ability to take in a message, apply it himself, and turn around sharing the word is phenomenal! From «Being a True Entreprenuor”(God I can’t spell entreprenuor either) to the «Gig Why», even though I have actually heard much of these concepts before, no one has ever delivered it in such powerful way that it cleared up the clutter in my mind. His life story of escaping death twice really resounded with me, not that I had ever had to deal with what he dealt with, but I had my own struggles in life just like most people, and have experienced the feeling of not able to continue with this life. We live in a society that’s not very forgiving, one screw up it may follow you for the rest of your life, but the good news is that it’s still up to us to climb out of the hole the same way we fell into it. Resilience is the key to fight off the inevitable curve balls one after another. My father in-​law always says, «When life gets difficult, you can be bitter or you can be better.»
I think if I was looking for rich and fame overnight, I would probably be mad that it’ll cost a colossal $ 20,000−34,000 not even to get started, but just to get the education to get started. But if we can step back, and try to extract value from Cole’s insight from 10 years of doing the same business, especially the fact that he doesn’t even bother to take a sip of water through the 3, 4 hours of straight talk, then you know he’s put his heart into trying to make the $ 197 and the 3 days of your time worth it. At the end of the day, Fortune Builder or not, it will still take work if we want to get anything done, not to mention done well. For some people the investment will be well worth it, for some it won’t, just like any other investment, it comes with risk. Assuming Fortune Builder delivers its products exactly the way it was discussed in the seminar, then they would have done their part, whether the student make money or not, it’s still up to the individual and the market, so you still have to do your part. You can drag the horse to the water, but you can’t force it to drink. The Fortune Builder people gotta eat too, so I don’t blame them for naming the price of what they believe their product is worth. Their perfectly structured seminar leads me to believe the price tag was probably carefully engineered as well.
I hope the people who were selected and ended up purchasing the program have made some good use out of it. Personally, I took home a lot from the event, everything I’ve learned has still been rolling around in my head and I will start applying some of what I’ve learned. After this inspiring seminar I found the motivation to live life to its fullest and be a better version of myself, what a fantastic way to welcome a new year!

I am at a fortune builder’s 3 day seminar. I paid 197 to be here. On their free event they sell you this seminar, I thought, I would learn about real estate investing, at least something about it.
Turns out, this seminar is also a framework to sell you their other programs. This is Day 2^nd, half the day is already gone and the trainer Gerald Martin is still saying, how he is going to make our dreams come true lol.
There is No teaching of techniques whatsoever. Its all about how govt sucks, education sucks, how people want to be rich but they cant, they talk about the rat race. Its basically a trap to get everyone sign up for the outrageous mastery program they have.
If you want to attend this event to learn about real estate, remember, there is no teaching. The only thing you will learn is why and how Fortune Builder is great and why you should pay to be their student.
Ive paid for 3 day sales pitch. There are at least 1000 of people here, everyone paid to come and listen to why they should buy something from them.
These guys are genious, remember those people who try to sell you something and you slam the door at them? Well, FB makes you PAY to listen to their sales pitch. And they interview you to make it seem like, its a BIG DEAL to get into their program. Lol, if you PAY, they gonna take you anyways.
What a sales guys FB is, amazing. Made a fool out of everyone.
I feel so bad for the audiences. The FB employee are all well settled family guys, they talk about their kids and families and gets emotinally connected to the audience. 99% of the audiences have families. When the trainer talks about how their life was like theirs and now everything is changed because of the training they got from
FB, people have this dream that, maybe they can get it too.
Maybe the Mastery program works, I don’t know. But the way, they made people pay to be on a 3 day sales pitch also knows as a seminar, I DO NOT like them. Its unethical.
Personally, I wouldnt even recommend it to my worst enemies. Unfortunately, people who gets involved in such scams are the ones who do not ever do their research or read reviews :(

I started the Fortune Builders Mastery program in early 2013 and have been rehabbing properties ever since. Without this valuable education, I am sure that I would have lost a great deal of money. With it, I earned many times my tuition back in about 6 months and went full time after about 8 months. I can’t image what other organization could teach you so well that you could recoup their tuition in that time frame.
We had such success that we now teach investing and coach/​mentor others. This program changed my life. The only down side was that I didn’t find it earlier.

I am a Mastery student and have been since 2011. I did a little bit of flipping prior to becoming a student of FB but I really needed the systems they supply to take it from a part time «hobby» to an actual business. Since 2011 I have had some great success because of the education I received in this company. I have purchased several rental properties. I have rehabbed dozens and dozens of homes and currently now operate successful residential redevelopment business in two different markets — Naples, FL and Chicago IL.
Yes — because of the success I have experienced, I now work with FB and train some of the newer students. I feel honored to work for such an incredible company. They have given me the education and skills to achieve many of the business and personal (bucket list) goals I wanted to achieve and some I wouldn’t have even thought possible in the beginning. I have a new mindset.
I noticed that those who have posted negative reviews are not actual students. They are viewing the program from the outside. If you are going to seek advice about a program, I would encourage you to actually seek it from persons who have actually joined the program and received the education.
I could go on and on — but basically I am big fan and they– FB, has enhanced my life greatly.

Bad mouth other investment vehicles and options because «advisers make a commission» trying to sway everyone to invest with them which THEY MAKE A SPREAD = COMMISSION. Trying to make it sound like real estate investments and transactions are suitable for everyone’s risk level by putting down more conservative investment strategy. «GURUs» selling their products and advice. Total rip off. One big sales pitch to shell out thousands of dollars for further training. Don’t be swindled.

Great program. The price is reasonable. Check out their free seminar. If you are new to real estate find out people you can relate with who are very successful. Be careful who you get advice from. This Fortune Builders platform is worth every penny. Be patient work the system and give yourself 12 months to get your new business going. Maybe you can do it in a couple months instead but give yourself time to ENJOY your growth. Have fun.

Great presentation at 3 day workshop

Much of the 3 day seminar is wasted on a hard sell for their outrageous «mastery» program for up to 35k (yes, thats thirty-​five THOUSAND $) If you dont have that, they will coach you how to finance it or put it on credit cards. Oh, and they remind you its tax deductable. You don’t have to worry, though, right? Your buddies Than and JD are gonna make you a «fortune», right?
Oh, yes. The feaky cult like worship of these 3 has-​been reality TV «stars» of a long cancelled show does not let up, either.
Oh, for the ultimate in FB hubris– These cretins actually wasted alot of seminar time organizing a CANNED FOOD DRIVE to show how «compassionate» they were. The $ 197 paying patrons provide the cans, of course. Disgusting
If you want to be a RE investor, EDUCATE YOURSELF online, with books, youtube videos etc. and join LOCAL RE investor groups. With a little money to invest and a few phone calls, real successful local brokers and agents may mentor you FOR FREE. Do all your homework before pulling the trigger on any big investment and remember: there are alot of sharks in the water (like FB) and if you are just starting out, you aint one of them.
Basically an unconscionable money grab by polished grifters aimed at vulnerable rubes, most of whom DO NOT have the mental or financial resources to come anywhere NEAR real RE investing. SCAM SCAM SCAM.

Scam! I attended the 90-​minute presentation in Atlanta, which stated that the 3-​day event would cover proven systems to make money in real estate,
My first day was Friday, Sep. 18. Our speaker Ry Guy talk a lot about changing your mind set. It made sense. He spoke on his family to let us know «I’m just like you». This lasted the first 3 hours. I had no issue with that because it is a confidence builder to know others started where you are.
The mom of a friend of mine took the classes a few weeks ago and I knew she had been asking for $ 25,000 to take the Mastery Course. With this knowledge I decided to ask a FortuneBuilders team member if she continued taking classes or did she only take the 3-​day workshop on break. She told me she had only taken the three day class. 5 minutes later someone else asked her the same question in a different room and she says everyone on their team took Mastery. Already, I’m wondering why she lied to me, because my question was clearly stated.
After break we began talking about wholesaling. He showed us how he did it using none of his own money. I was very interested. For the necessity of time he did not go into a lot of details, but he left me feeling very confident.
Day 2 began with him given motivation to change your mindset again. He than show pictures and videos of his family. It was cute but lasted over 3 hours. By lunch we had not discussed any real estate. (No pre-​foreclosures, short sales, etc.)
After lunch he really goes into great detail about the mastery program (which might I add we talked about the entire time) We didn’t talk about real estate anymore, it was what we could get to start out business if we did the mastery program.
It’s totally an upsale. They offer you FREE info to get you to come, only for you to pay $ 197 for the 3-​day course to learn about his family, and most importantly if you give us another $ 25,000 we will actually teach you something useful.
Now before you say money is not a problem for you, my biggest issue was there is an application and interview process, after they only accept a few people out of the 300 that are in the room. If majority of the room already applied and are just waiting for the interview, why are you still selling us on a course that at least 95% of the room won’t even be able to participate in.
I decided to get a refund. When I spoke to someone she tells me majority of the room wanted more information and thy can’t please everyone. Keep in mind they had already passed out a flyer on the break down of mastery classes. Why was he teaching it?
The check she gives me has the date of July 14 on it and she tells me I have 90 days from that date to cash it. DO NOT WASTE YOUR VERY VALUABLE TIME. The same information he shared is online free.

This is a complete rip-​off and scam designed to take money from unsophisticated business opportunity seekers. They fill rooms of ill prepared and financially unqualified people to upsell their real estate flipping service. It’s total and utter bs. Attendees are funnelled outside to be «interviewed» by janky sales reps who ‘reverse take away’ (interview) poor people into «mastery» which is another upsell program. They say they are ‘only accepting _​_​# of new students’ and then have the audacity to charge upwards of $ 35 grand for info you can learn online for FREE. Again… this is info ANYONE who spends some time on Google can get for free without spending a dime… never mind going into debt for tens of thousand of dollars.
Fact is: you CANNOT get financing for homes if you are broke (even if they try to explain their BS «wholesaling»). And for those who do have access to capital (or themselves have a lot of money) they are highly unlikely to be able to compete against professional and institutional real estate investment firms who live and breath this tough business. Institutional investors know what they are doing and will crush the individual business opportunity seeker who likely learned it from janky infomercial type scammers like «Fortune Builders».
Again: Fortune Builders is simply a rehashed late night infomercial spread over a few days. These dbags are modern day snake oil salesmen and you should stay far away from their clutches. The only ‘fortunes’ that will be ‘built’ are for the owners of this seminar company.
NOTE to the owners, presenters and sales reps for «Fortune Builders»: Where’s your compassion? There is a special place in hell waiting for you. You are hurting people, manipulating them to go into massive debt and lose their futures, retirement, kids college educations and lives, all so you can live your fraudulent lifestyle, which I assume is quite opulent.
Are your proud of yourselves? Do you tell your friends and families how many of your students fall for your bs and lose everything? I assume not, because you can’t possibly be proud of yourselves. Sure you talk the company line about ‘helping people’… but you know deep down, in your heart, you are full of it. Shame on you. Karma will get you when you least expect it.
Maybe you should try finding another job or line of work and become a decent human being.
ZERO stars.

SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM
All this info you can get for free on websites online. Don’t waste your money making these «gurus» rich. Do your research. Real estate involves a lot of work and don’t think that you’ll earn anything by paying 25K for a course.
Do a google search for «Fortune Builders scam» and you will see all the dirt behind this company. If this company was truly a good company, there wouldn’t be any hits on the Google search; however, there’s quite a lot of hits for that search.

I happen to know Than, Paul and JD personally… not only are they good business people and actually do a LOT of real estate deals, they are good people in general… unlike other companies that offer real estate education these guys actually do this stuff… a lot of companies offer training and are only interested in selling books and materials and teach «old school» techniques that worked in the 80’s but aren’t relevant today… these guys teach you what works in today’s market because they DO IT… plain and simple… their training is TOP NOTCH… and it’s more affordable and much more comprehensive than other trainings you will find out there… keep up the good work guys!

We attended the free seminar and paid for the 3 day event back in late 2012. When attending the event we were skeptical that this could really help us in launching a real estate investing business.
We signed up for the FortuneBuilders program in October of 2012 at the 3 day event. We launched our real estate business using the principles taught by the team at FortuneBuilders. We have been in the program for over 2 and ½ years and can’t say thank you enough for the education we have received. We would absolutely not be where we are today with out the program.
If you are looking at this program as a «get rich quick» plan you are wrong. This is an educational program just like attending college. If you do not put in the work you will not get results.
Thank you to everyone on the FortuneBuilders team!

Guys don’t waste anytime on this just left day 2 of the 3 day «training» and all it is a sales pitch for there 35k mastery program that am sure will be followed with another sales pitch for even more money do yourselves a favor don’t waste a weekend on this nonsense plus for 197 bucks at least give out some Bagles when you make people show up a 8am normal seminars at least have Bagles and coffee cheap bastards

I went to the Fortune Builders 3 day event about 8 months back with Cole Hatter as the presenter. Yes, I am back so many months after to share my experience and lessons learned!
First, let me tell you that your mere $ 200 buy you a lot of KNOWLEDGE that you can apply not only to real estate but any other business you are entertaining, and if I ever had a chance to put a price-​tag on the knowledge acquired, insight and result (in my personal life and business), I would have have priced it at tens of thousands! (which I actually made after attending just the 3 days, I can imagine the result after continuous training that I WILL eventually go thru with FB!!)
As I have said, I wasn’t able to sign up for the continuous training, but using the skills learned at the event I was able to change my life and business 180 degrees!
I am a small business owner, who have turned his construction business approximately 6-​fold to be correct, just using the technics learned. Literally, the revenue has gone 6-​fold! In just three days I was shown the other side of the coin! The third one! Yes, the Rib or the Edge! Yes, it is there! You just need to look at the things differently.
Cole, with all his insight, motivation, and experience in a few hours time, changed the way I started looking at the things, spending my personal and family time and running my business!
Even Though, I wasn’t able to sign up for the continuous training due to my financial abilities. I grabbed all the knowledge of three days, and using multiple techniques, started applying what I learned.
I met, literally, hundreds of new, interesting, successful and aspired people in the world or Real Estate Investing and Residential Redevelopment in the whole wide and long SF Bay Area, anywhere between Novato and Santa Cruz! I have acquired multiple new clients, equity partners, mentors, and just amazing people who shared the same interest in Real Estate as myself! These new people, events, beliefs and successes have completely changed my life in mere 8 months!
I Know exactly what I want and WHY I want it!
And now I know how to get it!
I read reviews below, and see excited people typing up their emotions right after the event, some still in disbelief, being possibly discouraged by their abilities and Why’s, and parking costs, lunch breaks and what-​not. I see a lot of excitement in reviewers that had a light bulbs go in their mind, telling them that they can do so much more in their life, just because a person from the podium not only motivated them enough, but opened up new, unbeknown to them side of their character.
But one I know for sure, I went to an event a long 8 months ago, and I’ve got the successful results to show, that even 3 day event can change the life of one forever, just like in my case!
And let me add another NOT SO SMALL thing, out of hundreds of Real Estate Investors that I met in Bay Area, I saw a handful of super successful ones, with experience as low as 1 year and some up to 40 years in business. And what really jumped at me, that out of top say 10 guys doing deals in Bay Area, 4 were Fortune Builders alumni. And being in business only 1 – 4 years. THAT MY FRIENDS SAYS A LOT!!!
Read again, 1 – 4 years of experience, and highest and most deals in entire 10mln+ people, 4mln+ houses San Francisco Bay Area!
So Does Fortune Builders training work,? Yes, and I see that it does on those vivid examples, (or those 4 are completely dumb-​lucky!)
Have I seen the Alumni that didn’t succeed, YES! You know what they said? yes we bought the training, but we just don’t have time going thru that. That tells a lot!
Don’t expect anything to happen by itself, it takes Dedication, Effort and Persistence! We are a society who loves and needs comfort, but one just needs to get out of their confort zone, if they want to shake things up, or succeed (like in my case).
Eventually I will find a way and ability to sign up for the program, but in the meantime I’ve found the way to work with Fortune Builders Alumni, and learn the ropes that way. It’s not all, but that is a START for me! And may be, just may be, using the technics learned about Other-People’s-Money, I will find a way to sign up for the program as well. Let’s see!
And,… learn your Why! Why you want to do that!
Wake up with that idea each morning and go succeed! Don’t take anything less!
Peace!
PS: and if you really need to refresh the motivation given to you by Cole Hatter or any other presenter from 3 day even, I suggest you check out Cole’s Fearless Minds podcast on iTunes. Dude Rocks!!! (especially the one with Matt Theriault)

We attended the 3-​day seminar in San Antonio recently. It was half motivational talk and half informational. The informational portion was fantastic, but the event probably could have been consolidated to 1.5 days without the motivational part. The Mastery program was offered for the following prices at the seminar:
$ 33,997 Diamond (includes 12 months of coaching)
$ 24,997 Platinum (includes 6 months of coaching)
$ 19,997 Gold (includes 3 months of coaching)
A couple of days after the event, we received an email from a representative saying he had some information for us. We talked on the phone twice and during the second conversation he offered the program to us for $ 10,000-$ 15,000. When we told him that we had a much smaller amount of $$ to invest, he told us we were being consumer-​minded and unless we were going to pay the 10k-​15k, then basically we’re wasting our time trying our hand at real estate.
We don’t want to wipe our accounts out and max our credit cards for this company; the gentleman was very friendly until we informed him we weren’t going to put our accounts in a financially compromising situation.
Potential buyers, do your homework on any company.