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Property investors lured by seminars

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Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Seminars lure investors
Seminars lure investors

Those attending property seminars to learn the art of investing and developing are often faced with wild claims.

Potential property investors are continuously seeing the options they have in attending property investment seminars. These seminars may provide some good information but in most cases are too good to be true, especially in the current European property market.

The get rich quick schemes often entice invitees into attending the free seminar in hopes of becoming a millionaire in overseas property development. Many promise that the investor can retire in three to five years. While these claims may seem over the top, they look even worse in the current market situation.

While most of these seminars do contain some good information and not many of them are doing anything illegal, there are many that are pushing the envelope on what they are selling. Successful property investors are saying that the market just isn't there.

The problem is not just in the UK or other European countries either. In fact, in areas of the US like Florida, trouble is brewing due to the low prices of foreclosed properties. Investors here are targeting the elderly looking for a way to afford health care as well as day to day living through investment opportunities.

Not all seminars are a bad thing; in fact if the investor has the ability to pinpoint the actual information being sold (and avoid huge payouts of money from the start) the chances are they will educate in a good way.


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