I’m not even sure where to begin.
I’ll preface this by saying I know Steve Navra is a big boy and does not require people to run to his defence, but he’s going to get it anyway.
I’m a long time lurker of these forums, approx. 3 years, I found them from a link off the Steve McKnight forums and had just finished reading one of the Margaret Lomas books, I was fairly Pro-Positive Cashflow properties at the time.
But then I noticed some discussion about a guy by the name of Steve Navra. Of course I did a lot more research into the posts made by this guy and working out why people were always talking so highly of him. I soon realised from reading his posts that he had the ideas and techniques to get me where I wanted to go.
As many people on the forum said, if you only attend one seminar on investing make it a Steve Navra course. I had attended a number of other investment seminars and decided it was a great idea. Unfortunately the next Sydney course was a number of months away. In the mean time I read more of Steve’s posts. The more I read, the more I got excited and even started to worry about things that may see the course cancelled.
Now as fate would have it, I had two impacted wisdom teeth the weekend of the course, for anything else I might have cancelled, but ended up just popping pain killers like a Crack junkie and attended the course. (I had the teeth out on the Sunday night immediately after the course finished)
Why do I tell this little story- cause I think the course was more than worth it and if I had to do it again to remain a Navra client, there would be no question.
(a bit over the top, maybe, but I’m that pleased – what can I say)
So you may say I’m a Navra fanboy. (Fanboy (fanboi) -a term used on other forums to denote a blind or near blind following to a cause, company or person) If so, that’s ok - I can think of a lot worse things to be called.
But why is this so? I’ve lost money to Financial planners in the past and lost money in supposed expert methods of stock trading, I should be very wary in these areas and I AM.
All I can base my opinions on are the results of my relationship with the Navra group. Starting off I was given free, on these forums, without even being a member, a vast amount of IP from this man, now in the 18+ months I’ve been an official Navra client, my financial stability has been greatly improved, I get money in my pocket on a regular basis from the Share fund, and with the help of Steve’s organisation I am in the process of buying a property with a good expectation of CG (but trying not to be predictive).
All with a high level of SANF.
Even though the end goal is financial freedom, I have found in this short time that with Steve’s (people) help I now have a lot more financial choices, 18 months ago a new addition to the family would have been “how will we afford that”, which has now become a “no brainer” – the wife (or me) could take a significant amount of time off work with little financial impact. Yes it would very much slow the asset accumulation process, but it’s now an option I (we) have.
So why do I join the forum today after 3 years of lurking and feel the need to pour all this out? Because when I saw that Steve is rethinking his position on being a regular contributor I thought something should be said. I of course have read the post that was the catalyst for this issue being raised, and trying to keep out of the legal argument and sentiments, I have flown my colours and am asking Steve to reconsider.
Maybe not even for us on the forum, but for those yet to find the forum, yet to lurk the forum and yet to post on the forum.
Steve, while I understand the reasons why you are reconsidering, also consider, that as I understand it, you do this to help others, well here is one person saying you have helped me and I THANK you for it. Please also consider people who have not yet had the chance to benefit from your knowledge. I also think your absence would leave a VERY large hole in this forum.
While this post may not be directly be about Property investing and may be a bit emotional, I suspect there may be a few more like it, if this thread was on the General area, the Legal area doesn’t get nearly the same amount of traffic.
Hope to talk more soon.