I have gotten the "good" that is at the SKW website and now given up on this guy. He has no intention of replying to e-mails (based on my experience and the opinions of others who bought the "kit" in my group.
SKW uses his middle name to differentiate between himself and some radical white racist nut. I did a background search and found that he has some criminal history, marital litigation, and could not be licensed for mortgage brokerage in the state of his residence (Utah) due to the fact that he lied about his prior criminal history. These are significant indications of a character disorder. No surprise, considering the way he is making his money.
SKW spends a significant amount of energy purging the internet of negative comments regarding him professionally. I have been entirely satisfied with Dean Graziosi's very expensive and entirely professional real estate investing empire and training system. There were negative comments on deangraziosi.com reg. this SKW fellow and SKW, himself, frequently went on the site to defend himself -- rather than spend the energy and time to correct his errors and ommissions with those students he had offended. I suspect that SKW put pressure on DG to have the entire thread quashed as it is no longer on the DG site (although it may still be cached in google). Or DG just does not want to have that much negativity on his blog.
I knew that SKW was bogus when they would not even reply to my request to purchase a tax lien certificate from SKW!:-0 What business is too busy to get back to a customer who wants to send money to them? That's being WAY to "busy" in my opinion. My hunch is that SKW has no intention of remunerating the "tuition" and will make it impossible for "students" to fulfill the part of the student's requirements that lead to a return of that $1200 (now $1400?) tuition.
I called SKW for the last time in early July. "Mark" was the guy with whom i spoke and he was rather frosty on the line -- indicated that he had heard about me (a rotten apple, perhaps). Although he did not disconnect, he was curt and not really interested in being helpful -- just perfunctory.
Formerly, I spoke with Jessica (who is likely the office cutie -- someone's sweetie) and both Alex and Derek who were entirely unable to offer any assistance when I asked of them a few basic and intial questions about working TLC's in Texas. Only Sean has the ability to answer a question and he won't do it. The concept of "the customer being always right" is NOT a slogan at SKW.
GovernmentAuctions.org is a good source of info regarding what type of auction is being held and where. Costs $18/mo. The SKW site has a "calendar", but only tells you that there is some unspecified type of action happening in a city without narrowing it down to a tax sale, foreclosure/trustee sale, sheriff sale, etc.
The bad thing about govauctions is that it is not "sortable", so you will waste some time scrolling down and going to the next page (over and over) to find what you want.
Sorry that you guys have also wasted your capital on a poser. If you wanna sue SKW for "failure to perform", let me know. Would be a class-action and I bet there are tons of pissed people out there.
he just sold the same kit in oregon and washington for $1497. it came with a lifetime membership to the website data, which i liked the idea of..... no digging. did that come with your 1297? i hear other sites charge $20 a month for this feature.
that said, i'm looking online and finding a lot of similar stuff for under $500 via various competitors. no promise of website data tho.
