My firm, and a very few others, have been working very hard for nearly a year, putting together a separate business model that would provide ‘way better than market deals’ for our clients.

We wanted to find a way to take advantage of our decades of experience, and use it to go around the country finding smokin’ deals. Turns out, it was a great idea. We do actually know what we’re doing.

So far, it’s worked out very well. The deals we negotiate never hit the general public. There are six of us, plus the owner of the other website who know the deals even exist. We call our clients and they decided whether they’re in the position to make a move or not.

Much of the time, the prices are below market value — our clients’ closing costs are often paid for them — and on a few projects we were able to get the developers to credit our clients for prepaid professional management, loan costs, and HOA fees.

So you see, the intended tone was meant to provide a real world opportunity to be one of the ‘insiders’. When I say the public won’t get a whiff of these deals - I mean it. The ONLY reason it’s even on my blog is because we’ve now found enough of these great bulk deals to expand those ‘in the know’ so to speak.

Even then Hans, the next 12 months will probably see a total of less than 200 properties sold to our Inner Circle. Most of these Inner Circle clients will not buy just one, but several, which will leave those who hesitate empty handed. Our standards are so high, only about 3% of the projects we analyze even end up being accepted by our group of brokers.

Since we’ve been able to acquire more than the usual number of units - because of the current correction - we agreed it would be more than ok to ask highly qualified and experienced investors if they wanted in. Even then, our entire pool of investors, nationwide, will probably be less than 4-500. That relatively small group of investors will benefit from spectacular real estate investment opportunities. And most of them won’t get in fast enough every year.

So far, no project has lasted even six weeks. A couple of them were sold in less than two weeks. Everything I said in the post was absolutely transparently true.

I’ll assume you’re not interested, or are too skeptical to explore this offer - and that’s fine.

As for the adviser vs salesman issue, here’s my take.

I haven’t had to ’sell’ anything for the last two decades. I give advice, and folks take it or they don’t. This opportunity doesn’t need to be sold to anyone, because, as I wrote, the projects themselves are of limited supply, and will, by definition, be such superior deals they’ll not be around long enough to matter.

Early on Hans, I discovered creation of wealth doesn’t have to be sold. It just has to be presented.

Hans, you’ll never have to be wary of me trying to sell you anything. If you think the chance to be on the inside of a circle of very experienced and successful real estate investment brokers is ‘being sold’, I can accept that.

Most folks, going by the response so far, appear to disagree with you.

Thanks for taking the time to pass on your thoughts. Keep coming back - and thanks.

I liked what you said about BofA and Countrywide - it was just a good essay. This is something closer salesmanship. As a blog reader I’m looking for an adviser not a salesmen.