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FIB - Scams 101
Re: Miligroup
Posted By: Geoffrey Taylor In Response To: Miligroup (Tina Kinder)
Date: Monday, November 26, 2007, at 12:47 p.m.(pst)
I joined the MILI Group a few months ago. DO NOT JOIN! I spent over $2,000 promoting my 'business' before I discovered that the people at MILI have no idea what they are doing. Consider the following:
-I did not make any money. Nobody on my team made any money. My District Manager, who raked in a bunch of transactions buying and selling for his recruits when the market was good and got so confident he quit his job also no longer makes any money.
-I went to the MILI expo, which they called "Top Gun", and the California REALTOR(R)'s expo within a week of each other. The difference in professionalism was akin to watching kids play touch football in their backyard and then going to a San Diego Charger's game. The 'experts' at MILI have no idea what they are doing.
-At "Top Gun", a presenter gave an audience member $60 for raising her hand, and the audience *gasped*. "Wow, sixty dollars!" somebody shouted. Just like you would expect from a crowd of broke losers.
-The top producers make their money by bugging every single person they see. It's called the "3 foot rule". The top producer in my branch once tried to motivate us by saying "Every time I go to a gas station, I get every person's number who is there! Are you willing to do that for your business?" Nobody raises their hand, but he's right. That's what you have to do to make money... professionally bug people.
-There is no 'business'. The focus is entirely on inviting. If there is any training at all on how to professionally buy and sell real estate to and from people who don't want to 'sign up' for their own 'business', it is of poor quality and is given by managers who have done their own independent research in hopes of squeezing a few extra bucks from their peons.
-Builders who can't unload their homes because nobody is buying them dump them at MILI. They offer incentives, like two year's paid rent, knowing that it still won't end up being worth it. These kind of incentives get the managers all excited because "now is the best time to buy" (now meaning always), and of course the only way they make money is if one of their peons buys or sells something. They get their money from commission overrides, and won't have to hassle with selling the property at a huge loss when the 'two years paid rent' are over.
-In California, you can't legally get a commission for doing your own real estate transaction (it creates a conflict of interest). However, you can at MILI because of some back-door work-around system they use. Someday, this will end up before the courts, and I would not want to be the guinea-pig agent for that case.
Thank you, and have a nice day. And PLEEEEASE save your money. If you want to get rich, get some experience working at a high-paying job where you can learn enough to start your own business.
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