National Real Estate Investors NRI RE Success Group James Smith BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE RIPOFF Draper Utah

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*UPDATE.. James Smith and the James Smith Real Estate Coaching Company strongly demonstrate their commitment to total customer satisfaction through the Rip-off Report Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation & Customer Satisfaction Program, the program that benefits the consumer & assures them of complete satisfaction & confidence when doing business with this company. James Smith teaching realistic, long-term real estate investing strategies that will consistently build wealth over time. Draper, Utah

JAMES SMITH has gone far and above what we expected in rectifying our situation after sharing with him our story and extreme disappointment with the investing nightmare we found ourselves in after the M-5 (specifically the pressured purchase involving Jolee Tibbitts, a then presenter for NRI). James' willingness to not only listen to the facts of the situation but to also be proactive in giving us a hand up in finding resolution to the situation tells us that the original message that he was delivering and what so endeared us to him was and is REAL. His approach to ETHICAL BUSINESS that can generate great financial wealth and place you in a position of giving a "hand up" not a "hand out" to other people or even entire communities is unique in a world of "shady" dealings and scam artists.

To date, and many months after resolution, he continues to maintain contact with us even though his schedule is one of the busiest I have ever seen.

For us this has been an amazing reassurance that there are good and ethical people in business. But, NEVER be so moved by ANYONE, especially so called EXPERTS, that you FAIL to do your DUE DILIGENCE in determining whether or not a real estate purchase will provide you with the anticipated strategic financial outcome for your portfolio. JAMES SMITH even teaches the importance of doing your due diligence.

Jolee Tibbitts was presented as a real "EXPERT" and the properties were in her home state where she supposedly had a plethora of market knowledge and yet AFTER we owned the property what we found out is that the same development where our brand new home sat the same builder was still building houses (yes, the story we heard of the builder going out of business and wholesale assigning the homes to Jolee must have been a BS story) plus the builder had overbuilt, the market was dropping and there were WAY TOO MANY houses on the market so we were stuck competing against a builder who could easily undercut our price, offer more options on the home, financing incentives, etc. Even so, it was never our strategy to immediately flip the house. We had a Lease Option strategy to hold the house for a minimum of 1 year. Jolee told us that by lease optioning we could immediately get 10% option money up front since there were so many people that had gone BK in the past few years in UT that they had lots of cash but could not necessarily get traditional lending. Not true!! We later learned that we would have been lucky to get 3%. The prices have eroded so much from our original purchase price that we will be very fortunate if the market recovers to our original purchase price in three years.

Lastly, I have a STRONG comment about BIG BROTHER, aka RIPOFF REPORTS. We requested that the comment regarding James Smith be removed from the report; i.e., I wanted to delete the report since we found that he was not the villain that we felt due to guilt by association with Jolee Tibbitts. But, oh NO, apparently, we, the general public, are not intelligent enough to make decisions for ourselves and need to be protected from our own choices by BIG BROTHER. My view, they are exactly what they are trying to protect us from. Makes one think, now doesn't it?

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