🛑 "3-Day Property Courses Are Ruining the Industry." – and no one seems willing to say it out loud. So I will. 🎓 As a qualified teacher with 11+ years’ experience and landlord, let me be clear: Three-day property courses are - by and large - woefully inadequate. Why? There’s a glaring lack of meaningful education in this sector - and most trainers aren’t filling the gap properly. Why not? Because real teaching takes time, care and commitment. Most attendees aren’t financially equipped or committed enough to justify proper mentorship. They attend a course, then return to their day job and dreams. Want to know what true education costs? Ask a parent. Private school fees: often £10k+ per year University: £15k+ or more And how long does education take? Years. Consider how long you spent at school and university? Lifelong learning is key. What exactly do three days offer? The "gurus" know Joe Public won’t spend £10k+ or commit to real training. So, they: 👉 Sell a dream of a “six-figure business in six months” 👉 Deliver to 300+ people online or in halls - just to make it pay/their time ratio worth it 👉 Recycle shallow content that doesn’t prepare anyone for this complex industry They run them to supplement their own income. Not to improve the sector. Some of it is downright fraud. As someone who’s taught Year 7s with a reading age of 5 to Oxbridge-bound Sixth Formers, let me be clear: 👉 You can’t teach properly to 300 👉 You can’t offer real feedback, support or challenge 👉 Yes, there are excellent educators (notably, the best I’ve met are women 👏) but they teach 10, not 300, and rarely seek the spotlight. The result? 🛠️ A flood of unprepared, overconfident newcomers 💭 A market filled with false hope 📉 A profession drowned in hype, leaving serious operators mistrusted. Sellers get misled. Investors get burned. Agents roll their eyes and block your number. This isn’t just ineffective - it’s damaging. The industry is full of people with no systems, no compliance, and no real clue yet somehow advertise that they can 'do deals'. The biggest challenge facing a professional, qualified, insured, compliant portfolio builder today isn’t finding investments - it’s overcoming the negative bias and automatic assumption that you’re “just another one of those people.” No qualifications No experience No properties No hope If property is going to be treated like a profession, it must be taught like one. I can't be the only one sick of these 'teachers' - some of them the 'big fish' 🐟 too - and the cowboys, 'boys' and newbies they produce. Your Thoughts? #propertycommunity #PropertyInvestment #EducationMatters #RealEstate #TrainingStandards #Professionalism #TruthOverHype #PropertyCommunity

Posted by James Lovell-Smith at 2025-05-25 09:04:48 UTC