Do not recommend, unless you are ready to drop 4K for a binder of non-specific not especial information that isn’t already available for free on YouTube. Then get ready to pay $200 for access to their low quality software and uninspiring couches and if you are lucky you’ll talk to Phil once.
Response from Freedom MentorJun 19, 2026
In our records, we show an Edwarth Jason Espinoza that joined our pre-apprentice program ($997) on December 14, 2017.
Back then, that pre-apprentice program included a simplified version of our home study course, access to a limited version of our software as well as 4 introductory coaching calls with our team.
We didn't give away all of our secrets with that program since we didn't want competition for our full Apprentice Program clients.
It seems that this individual was expecting the full Apprentice Program experience, including working directly with Phil, when he joined the pre-apprentice program. Edwarth/Eddy/Jay, if you read this, feel free to reach out to us and we're happy to give you a full refund on your purchase of that $997 program from 9 years ago.
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Thomas D.
They have proof to me this not a scam
They have proof to me this not a scam!
Thay have pay for me!
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Steppen
They are crooks
They are crooks
Response from Freedom MentorAug 5, 2024
There has never been a person named "Steppen" in our program? Who is this who posted this false accusation?
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Daisy K.
Rip off, sadly would be good if real
It don't take a lot to see there don't offer much, the guy refused to answer and ask about trust, he ask me if I trust him 10 times. can see someone trust there life savings at the it scary, there no proof or time frame of any of there story, even more so he try to get what he can big money. I had some basic question which he refused to answer and hung up on me instead. Eighter this is not for a guy eating beans out of pickup hoping to get rich.. Want any where from 1k to 50k up front just for you be pay 50% of you first half million. There seem to be no out and there could file lawsuit on you personally property. I would avoid them. Also big show boss is Philip Blake Pustejovsky. Just do a background check at any deed office you will see he don't buy real estate.
Response from Freedom MentorJul 28, 2022
This is obviously not authentic in any way whatsoever. I've never asked anyone if they trust me (the comment reminds me of that scene from the movie Aladdin where Aladdin asks Jasmine if she trusts him) That's simply not something that has ever come out of my mouth. Nor do I hang up on people, ever. Some of what is written is not even coherent? For example, "...Eighter this is not for a guy eating beans out of pickup hoping to get rich..."; what does that even mean? Our guess is that this was posted to our company by a jealous competitor or some very confused person.
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Kat
No exit
The program wasn't working for me. I asked to be let out of the agreement or renegotiate it. The answer was NO.
No exiting. No renegotiating . Once you are in there is no way out. Regardless of what answer the program will give, that is my honest experience. There is no exiting after the 3rd day of the signed agreement.
Response from Freedom MentorNov 24, 2021
What Kathryn failed to mention to you was that since joining our program in August of 2020, she has closed 7 deals; with profits of $23,367.50, $6,635, $12,674.75, $2,500, $32,787.94, $14,131.05 and $11,836.93, respectively, or a grand total of $103,933.17 in profits. She agreed to share in $500,000 in profits in exchange for us teaching her exactly how to be incredibly successful. We have delivered on absolutely everything she hired us to do for her, and then some. Now that she is incredibly successful, she no longer wants to hold up to her end of the bargain. It's sad to see this happen to someone with so much potential. Rather than focusing on making even more money in the future, she is instead attempting to cut out the very source of her success.
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Danita T.
I myself would leave a zero .But they…
I myself would leave a zero .But they do not tell you that the first 8.000.00 is there's .My man is a very hard worker they did not answer there phones they did not help in any way but to get us. Further in debt .And they want a useful review not in my life time
Response from Freedom MentorAug 13, 2021
We are unable to find a customer in our records of going-on-two-decade history with a name even remotely similar to "Danita Trujillo". Perhaps this was posted by mistake? Or maybe its just hate speech from a competitor? We are incredibly responsive, including on Saturdays and Sundays, week after week, month after month and year after year. To our knowledge, no other real estate mentoring service has consistently provided 7 days a week help, ever, besides us. And not just any help, but the best in the business.
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Lisa
The real legal name of Freedom Mentor is "Business Mentor Coaching LLC"
The real legal name of Freedom Mentor is "Business Mentor Coaching LLC." If they send you a contract, that's what it'll say on the contract. You won't find "Freedom Mentor" anywhere on it. Why? Because Phil has discovered the perfect way to hide the truth about his company and reputation.
With an LLC, the owner can use a different name to go by in the public. An LLC has only one legal name, but it can have as many different business or trade names as the owner wants and that's exactly what Phil does. This is how he has been successfully gypping people for years and years with no complaints. So when you google Freedom Mentor, all you will see are the endless fake 5-star reviews and his websites.
Look up 'Business Mentor Coaching' on BBB and if you search hard enough you will find it there. But it has no complaints, no stars, and no one's ever reported anything to it. It's blank. He has found the perfect way to shield people from the truth unlike his competitors Renatus and Fortune Builders for example whose BBBs are full of unhappy campers. But I think that's a good thing because it holds companies responsible for wrongdoing and forces them to become ethical and have humanity. If you google 'Business Mentor Coaching,' you won't find his legal business website that way either because Business Mentor Coaching is such a vague name which he also purposefully chose to make it even harder for people to find out the truth.
If you are someone who can steal money from people to get on top and still sleep at night, you will love working for him. But if you are someone with morals and humanity, I don't recommend doing business with Phil or Freedom Mentor. I guess now he is gonna have his female secretary try to get my review deleted. From what people have told me, first she'll send me an email saying that if I take down the review, she'll give me my money back which by the way I paid $5,000. Then she'll try to get the review deleted. If that doesn't work, she'll spend months and months drumming up fake reviews to block out the negative stars. And last she's gonna write a really mean feedback to this review like I've seen her do to other people on here.
Do not, I repeat, do not do business with this man.
Response from Freedom MentorJul 7, 2021
This “review” is sadly, full of inaccuracies and noise. We take great pride in what we do to help others. Business Mentor Coaching LLC has been our holding company for many, many years. We are in fact structured like many other world class, well-known companies. For example, Olive Garden is really Darden, Jaguar is really TaTa Motors, Windex is really SC Johnson, Google is really Alphabet, and the list goes on and on. Furthermore, we are extremely transparent to the public whereas this "Lisa" is anonymous. Who knows who wrote this? It could be someone who sees us as a competitor for all we know? What is important is that for the past two decades, we have proven to be the most trusted, most authentic, most accurate and best mentoring program of its kind in our industry’s history. If you would like to watch videos of 100’s of real people reporting their actual experiences with our program, go to freedommentorreviews.com. Meanwhile, always be cautious of taking advice from an anonymous author posting inaccurate information.
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Kevin M.
You Don't Get the Whole Story
Don’t join Freedom Mentor unless you have cash reserves. It takes a minimum of $5K to join the program. And with that you get a binder with DVDs in it, along with a couple other manuals to guide you through the program. You also have access to coaching calls, videos and even some personalized coaching calls (depending on the amount you first invest). So, the tools are there for you to be successful in the program. IF YOU GET THE LEAD$.
The leads are the HUGE ingredient in making this complicated recipe of making money work. Freedom Mentor does assist with you trying to avoid the potholes out there with their various steps you should take. However, all the instruction, encouragement and where-with-all doesn’t mean anything unless you have leads for potential sellers. And let me stress the word potential. There are MANY other companies and individuals out there fighting for the 1-2% (Phil’s numbers, not mine) of the potential sellers that will fit the criteria for Freedom Mentor’s program to work.
And with the initial investment, you'll be given advice or direction on how to obtain leads, but Freedom Mentor will not drop one penny to get those leads for you. This is the genius part of their plan. They can’t lose. If you shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars every month for leads and nothing comes from it, the only person who is out is YOU. Not Phil or his company. You have to spend even more of your money to hunt for those few precious leads out there. And they are few and far between.
I couldn't shell out the money every month for the leads because my finances were tight and just getting the $5K for the initial investment was almost two months of take-home pay for me at the time. Little did I know that the one caveat, the leads, is the main thing to make it all work. You can have a great car, but can’t start it without the keys. And the leads are just that. The KEY. Unfortunately, it’s going to cost you even more to get those. Which is why I said in the beginning, to make sure that you have cash reserves if you want to make this program work.
Phil didn’t have to have cash on hand to get his first deals done. However, you are going to have to have plenty of it. No person living in their truck (like Phil was) would be able to be helped by Freedom Mentor today. Why? Because unlike Phil’s mentor, he won’t be a mentor to you unless you pay up. And that is not only in the form of your large initial investment, but also the monies you are going to need to obtain leads and the many other small expenses that add up to get a deal done.
Freedom Mentor isn’t a scam or necessarily a rip-off, even though I lost $5K listening to Caleb Jenkins (the recruiter) and Phil. However, I wanted to let you know that there are MANY moving parts in this machine and MANY things have to line up and work out just right for a deal to finally get done. If you want to take that gamble, then that is up to you.
For those who are looking to work with Christians and thinking that this is a Christian company. It isn’t. Jesus said in Matthew 22:39 that the second greatest commandment is “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” I emailed Caleb Jenkins a couple months after joining the program to see if I could get my money back. After seeing the videos and listening to a few calls, I knew this wasn’t going to work with me because I didn’t have the funds for the leads and the $200/month to stay in the program. Caleb never got back to me. He was more than willing to talk with me before I signed up, but once I signed up, then I guess he didn’t have the time to contact me back. His job was done.
And speaking of no contact. You’re not allowed to talk with others in the Freedom Mentor program except at corporate functions. After being in the program for a couple months, I was wanting to get
some things figured out. I thought what better way to do that, than talk to those who have already done it. I asked my coach if there were meet-ups or support groups in my area for those in the program to bounce ideas off of and give each other support. I was told by her that Phil doesn’t want people talking to each other in the program. What?! I had never been a part of an organization that didn’t encourage participants to be there for each other….until now.
Seeing Freedom Mentor for what it was made me decide to leave. There are obviously people who have made money with the program. However, the percentage of those who paid thousands of dollars to get into the program and actually made their investment back or got ahead will never be known. It’s kind of like other real estate programs out there. Yes, some people have made money. However, they are few and far between. Of course, what we always see are the "winners". And because of Phil's clever use of search engines, that's all you'll see from them. Unfortunately, you have to shell out $5K to see the rest. Don't get hurt.
Response from Freedom MentorApr 9, 2021
Kevin didn't follow our instructions and therefore he didn't achieve results. And bare in mind that he struggled during a time that was absolutely PERFECT for real estate investing (thanks to low inventory levels and low interest rates) and he was in an amazing area too! It wasn't us that was the problem; it was him.
Here are some responses to what he wrote above:
(1) Connecting with sellers is obviously paramount to real estate investing. 1-2% of the population is millions and millions of sellers. In our business, you only need to connect with a few to make a fortune. Kevin didn't follow our specific marketing instructions and therefore he didn't connect with sellers. If there are thousands of potential opportunities in his area and he only needs to reach a few of them, it's not longer a lack of opportunity issue. It's a Kevin-not-following-instructions issue.
(2) We do refer some leads, from time to time, to our Apprentices as they roll in. But we don't refer them to people like Kevin that don't follow our basic instructions. Furthermore, our main goal is to teach our people "how to fish", so to speak, rather than giving our people "a fish", because we want to show them how to be financially free, not dependent on us for sustenance.
(3) We have mastered this business at a higher level than any other organization of its kind in history. This is not a "complicated recipe" or something that requires "MANY things to line up". But you do have to follow our methodology very closely. Like any financially productive endeavor, you have to do it just right or it won't work. Kevin didn't do it like we told him to do it. So to him, it was complicated. To our other Apprentices, it's just following our system and not trying to change what's already working.
(4) Caleb is in our Admissions Department. He thought Kevin was going to be a good fit based on his initial interviews with Kevin. The person Kevin portrayed himself to be in the initial interviews is different from the person he really was. Caleb couldn't have predicted it. And the reason Caleb did not respond to Kevin is that Caleb is not on our mentoring team so once an Apprentice has been in our system for quite some time, all correspondence is forwarded to our mentors and the mentoring team reaches out instead of the admission team.
(5) Kevin was not following our advice and therefore was not achieving results. Connecting him with another Apprentice who was successful and was closing deals, would not help that productive person. Instead, it would most likely annoy that person because if Kevin wouldn't listen to us, he wouldn't listen to another successful person either. So yes, we did not connect Kevin with any other Apprentices in our program.
We have noticed over the years that new investors have this strong desire to network and meet up with other investors. It seems logical but in reality, it has many issues. First, our Apprentices are geographically spread out so that they don't compete against each other. So meeting up in person is not easily feasible in most cases anyways. Second, we as mentors have to be incredibly careful about allowing bad advice to creep in and ruin a deal. Our mentees need to get their wisdom from our mentors, not other Apprentices. Otherwise, it can be a situation of the blind leading the blind. We have learned this lesson the hard way. Third, creative real estate investing is not a networking business. If you are a social person, get your in-person interaction fix elsewhere, but not from creative real estate investing.
(6) We have an extraordinary success record with our Apprentices. You can go to Freedom Mentor Reviews dot com to see hundreds and hundreds of real life examples. Meanwhile, Kevin is a rarity, but a perfect example of someone who hires a professional coach to mentor them and then doesn't listen or follow their advice and then blames the mentor for the lack of results!
