Jan 12 2008
MyLife: Inspiration from the Trump Institute
“The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is disappearing,” the fast-talking walking success story shouts out to the audience. “We’re turning into a society of rich and poor. You want to be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem.”
Rick Brown is an unapologetic devotee of Donald Trump-style, take-no-prisoners money-making strategy. This writer sat in on the Donald Trump Way to Wealth seminar at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel.
Most frequently-used talking point of the day: Money’s a game. You know the rules, you win. You don’t, you lose.
Runner up: If you can do what we’re teaching you once, you’ll want to do it twice, four times, twelve, sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four, and now you’re on your way to wealth.About two hundred people paid $1,500 today to get training from the Trump Institute as a result of the seminar. Clearly, Trump inspires.
UPDATE (By request. Thanks, Michael): As you would expect, the seminar was about getting rich through real estate. Essentially, the Trump Institute provides training for people to buy undervalued properties without really owning them (and thus paying no tax) and reselling with a pre-found investor in a day or two, possibly with the assistance of a realtor.
While the concept is fairly simple (no risk, high reward), the intricacies of pulling it off can be diabolically complex - which, of course, the Trump Institute will be happy to talk these people through, for a tuition fee. It really isn’t a get-rich quick scheme; more sort of a get-rich in five to ten years scheme.
Of course, if anyone else is interested in hearing what Rick has to say, he’s back at the Sheraton Vancouver Guilford Hotel in Surrey on Monday at 1 pm and 7pm. As it turns out, the tickets are just a marketing gimmick - anyone can go in and they don’t even check, so it’s essentially first come, first serve.
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Wha?? No “Location Location Location!” No “Buy this house with zero down?” Where’s the beef, Jonathon? If we’re going to come to Currents we should expect a few tips to make us rich, doncha think?
From your account it sounds like this guy is saying it’s better to be rich because being middle class is passé, and the poverty thing is for suckers. Good advice, I guess.
Funny thing: Rick never actually mentioned “location, location, location”. I guess he had enough catch-phrases of his own.
Quite interesting. Donald Trump and his organization are definitely intelligent people. Do you watch the Apprentice? That show is too funny!
I’m a big fan. But the first season remains the best in my books.
Does anyone know where Rick Brown is from, or any other info on him? He mentioned that he grew up “around here” at last night’s seminar in Calgary. I was wondering how far he was really stretching the truth.
I just went to a seminar today and Rick said he grew up in toronto.
Somebody told me that if they had known sooner how rich they would become through real estate they would have done it much earlier.
By the way Jonathon, did you notice I moved over to WordPress?
The Rick Brown I met at the free seminar today grew up around here (Philadelphia). Maybe his parents were nomads. What an honest man he is!
That’s funny. Maybe there is more than one “Rick Brown”. The “Rick brown” I meet last night at a Los Angeles Trump Institute seminar is from, where else, LOS ANGELES, with a sister who went to UCLA.
Interestingly enough the Rick Brown at the free seminar in Burnaby today said he was from Burnaby. But I think he is actually an American of some sort because of the way he said “roof” the Yankee way as in “ruuf” like a dog,lol.
He did quite the hard sell, for the “program” they were trying to market. Both speakers today were doing the hard sell from what I felt, if they are Trump Institute reps of some sort,then quite frankly I was underwhelmed by what I saw….