Last year I was introduced to Austin Davis. I was told about Austin from another investor I follow. The teacher whose program I had bought I found very useful so I bought Austin Davis’s program. First, unlike the program I had already bought on apartment investing this program was just for funding. If you are a new investor you may want to start with a overview program or book on apartment investing. The program Monica Main has is under $100 and a great starter program. Since Austin was offering a 60 day money back guarantee I decided to give it a try.
The website he has is to the point and easy to use. I was able to download the program right away too. The price was a big investment for me at $1,000 but it did come with a 60 day guarantee. You can now find his program on sale for 50% off each month. Austin is up front that he wants you to bring him deals for his property scout program – you don’t get partnership but just a flat fee – but you can buy on your own too if you are ready. You are not required to send him deals for his property scout program though. I wanted to buy my own apartment building and did not want to just get a fee for referring it.
After I read through his program I sent his staff a email for help. I got help on how to submit a deal using the forms each week from his staff. I got a year of support included for free when I bought his program which was really nice. Each time I would send a deal for help I would include my name and email and the date I bought his program to qualify for the free support. I had to work up 9 deals before the numbers finally worked, but with $3,200 a month in cashflow it was well worth it. I was able to buy with out having to put down a down payment thanks to the down payment investor fund his staff showed me how to gain access to. What was really good for me is that I do not qualify for any special grants from the government so this came as a big surprise to me.
It took me 7 months to get my first apartment, but I bought it with no down payment and only $12,000 cash up front. Austins team did show me how to get the prefunding for up front costs too. I got a seller credit at closing to cover my closing costs and got cash to pay the up front costs back too. I only wish I could have got cash back at closing on my first deal. I did learn how to get cash on a deal back from the investor fund.
My free 12 months of support has since expired. I was later offered a invite to his mastermind group for $99 a month. I am working on my 3rd apartment now and still use Austin’s staff to help me on my deals.
Before I started with Austin’s team I tried dozens of other real estate programs. I spent a lot of money on other gurus stuff.
What has set Austin’s program and his team apart from the other programs is the support. Austin now I see in his emails offers his program for a lot less than I paid. Austin offers the 60 day guarantee now on his program too. I have never paid for a program other than using my credit card. What I love about being able to buy with a credit card is I also got the protection of my credit card. If a merchant does not refund my money when they offer a refund guarantee I can always dispute it with my credit card to get the money back. Austin also went the extra mile to have his program billing handled by a independent third party called Clickbank. I have found few teachers go to the length of using a 3rd party to audit and protect customer billing information any more. Clickbank is the internet’s largest and most respected internet billing provider. If you are not aware of Clickbank’s security and refund policy it is the best on the internet. Just google clickbank to read about the awards for security they have in place.
I would like to take the time to thank Austin in my review for all his help. When I searched for reviews on his program there were few of them. I have noticed a lot of people asking for reviews so I wanted to share this.
There are many scams online today. The best way to tell if a guru is legit is do they offer a money back guarantee and take credit cards – scammers NEVER sell programs via credit cards. You also want to pay with a credit card or paypal. Look for a 3rd party billing servicer such as clickbank or authorize.net or something like that to protect your billing infomation. Clickbank is I think the biggest.
For real estate you need someone with support. This is huge. You have to have a good support team there to help you on your deal. The price of a program does not equal its worth – most of the big ticket ones Ive tried were junk. In fact I think many times the programs costing $5,000 or $10,000 are just hype. Just think about that for a minute. If an investor is profiting from deals why do they want to charge $5,000 or more? Heck, why even charge $1,000? I asked Austin this and I think that is why he has dropped the price to $500 or less. It just makes since more people will be able to buy your program if it costs less. I wish it was free. I know teachers have to charge something to help people with support, but I feel like most do over charge for it.
I was stunned to see people slandering Austin and standing up for gurus way over charging people for training (who I tried and lost a lot of money working with). How do you know if it works? Other than to buy it and try it I don’t know. Use your credit card, print a copy of the website with the 60 day guarantee. I was told if it did not work for me to ask for a refund from the start which was reassuring to me. I got help on my order from clickbank too. Clickbank also sends you a order confirmation email with a easy click refund request for your protection. If you are skeptical – you have the printed copy of the guarantee and can call your credit card company and they will refund it. Try it and see for yourself – nothing works like seeing something work first hand.
I only wish someone would have wrote a review like this for me when I was skeptical. I really wish someone pointed me in the right direction of who try try so I would have saved the $10,000 I spent on other programs before Austin. Now I have time to live the life I want though. I now spend time with my family more. Time to travel with my wife. In this day in age that’s a valuable thing. Best of luck in your dreams of investing – if I can do it you can do it.
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