ResponseReviews of response.com

The Elite Retreat was a great experience! All of the trainers and mentors are friendly and knowledgeable. They are guiding me with every step in my education. I learn something about trading every day! Thank you so much Response!

Their training was good. Very informative and applicable to my situation

Outstanding instructors! Very patient!

Response is a scam with excellent skills in sales or better said, the art of manipulation, embellishment, and scamming people. The ultimate in bait and switch. They do not deliver on their promises and later tell you they did not make such promises. They lie! It starts with a free book (the most expensive book in my library) and seminar. They convince you that they can teach you how to make thousands from the comfort of your own home (not true!) via their software that includes a monthly fee but first you have to pay $1000 for the 3 day training. This eliminates those who cannot afford their program, but only if they can't qualify you for credit at a fee of $3000. Once you pay the $1000 (supposedly you get your money back after your first deal- good luck getting that deal!), you wait to go to the 3 day training where you are worn down by lack of sleep, late night homework and reading an inspiring book that motivates you to "Change your life!". You then realize this "training" was not an actual training but there way of convincing you how much you need their actual training and mentoring package of about $30,000 give or take, depending on the package you select. Without this, you are pretty much on your own, out of $1000 and no idea what to do. If you got to this point, you are better off saying goodbye to the $1000. If you pay for the package, they will take you on an extensive and costly ride and by the time you arrive to your destination, it is the opposite of what you expected and were told. Instead of living your dreams, you wake up to a nightmare financially. They will happily take $30,000 from you and once you pay, they will gladly ask you for more money. Our investment required we take a trip to Utah for another "training" and although there was some training, most of the 3 days of training was a ploy to get us all to sign up for more expensive programs they offer. All the training could have been done online but ut is easier to sell a captive audience. Upon returning, the sales calls continue. Just when you thought you paid for mentoring, you are asked to spend another $14,000 for one-on-one training. The sales calls never ends until you keep saying "no" and only after they assure you that you will have no success without their one-on-one. We did not do the one-on-one so all you actually get is a phone line of people telling you what is a "good deal" or not but no one gives you the same information and those "good deals" are not so good. Those who paid for one-on-one did not better than we did. We did everything we were told and at the end ran out of money (by the way, you also need earnest money make deals). They never tell you up front all that is truly involved. Response is full of other sister companies that are just trying to sell you other services such as tax company/ corporation set-up, asset protection, charity set-up... They say they will teach you how to make much more than your "investment" in exclusive real estate deals but the only lesson you actually get is how not to get scammed in the future. I am a skeptic, and I still got con. Beware of Response! Once you realize you were conned, it is too late to reverse the charges on your credit cards. Anything they actually teach you can be learned for free or with a couple of books. They will refuse to refund your money and now they are being investigated by the FTC. I do not want you to get scammed the way we did! BTW, I had to fight very hard to get this review re-posted. Response kept saying I was not a real customer and I had to show Trustpilot proof several times. Response does not want to allow poor reviews to show up online and they do everything possible to remove all negative reviews. Beware of Response!

Don't believe the 4 1/2 star rating for Response!! If you read thru, you will find about 60% 3 or 4 word sentences as a rating that are obviously PAID FOR! You will also see that in NONE of these "positive ratings" does ANYONE give an account of the "THOUSANDS OF $$" they made by actually using this so called "proven method" of making serious money by "wholesaling houses" to investors-because no-one DOES make any money....despite ratings going back to earlier than 2015..... RUN!! DON'T just walk away from this company! Again RUN!! They will entice you with heavy handed "bait & switch" tactics that produce ZERO results for all but 1% of the people that get their "training". Both the FTC and Utah Attourney General are currently in the process of shutting them down! You can find the details of the Lawsuits brought by the Federal Trade Commission and Utah State Attourneys office with a simple google search. You DEFINITELY WANT TO REVIEW THIS as it contains DEEP details of the unethical and ILLEGAL PRACTICES they are being charged with by both the Utah Attorney Generals office and the Federal Trade Commission. First you will be cajoled into paying around $1100 for a 3-day "workshop" where you will supposedly learn all you need to learn to do "wholesaling".....what it REALLY is is a 3-day high pressure sales pitch, which will give you almost NONE of the needed wholesaling info, complete with them getting as much of your financial info as they can on a sheet they give you within the first 10 minutes of the class which asks you all sorts of "qualifying" questions which in reality is to determine whether or not you can afford the NEXT step of "advanced" training which will run oyu between $20K, $35K or up to $50k!!! I was duped into spending the $$ to do the "Diamond Elite" program which included an informative, "Boots on the Ground" training (full of information available for FREE at BiggerPockets.com) BUT-this training could have been gotten for a much lower level training with Response-More on why that is important. At this point you will be given access to a website FILLED with obsolete information to start your investment career. You will also be able to call their "customer service" who will give you inconsistent info from one agent to another and although you paid 10's of thousands of $$ for unlimited access your calls are LIMITED and to have more time you have to call back... Then comes the crem-de-la-crem trip to Utah for more "advanced training"-Nopers!! They just re-hash "Boots on the Ground" coupled with a TON of upselling sales pitches designed to get you to BUY thousands and thousands of $$ worth of "resources" and "coaching" that is both unneeded and unnecssary until you have sold several properties....which happens for ALMOST NO ONE!! Basically 3 days of high pressure upselling with almost NO NEW "education" to help you complete a deal... Now, lest you think I didn't actually "work their plan"...I DID!! I went out and got more than 2 dozen different "investor/flipper/buyers". I was also successful in getting 3 different properties under contract, which BTW-required thousands of $$ out of my pocket in earnest money to get them under contract, that i was told by Responses' team 'were great wholesaling deals" that should sell with no issues-Truth be told -ALL of my buyers told me that the 3 deals I presented were "BAD" deals-even though i followed Responses' advice to a proverbial "T". One real estate agent fired me and I now have a reputation with these local buyers as being someone who only brings BAD deals to them~ Thanks RESPONSE! At this point I have already began taking aggressive steps to recover the $31,000 that we paid for this all but worthless training. After making a request to get my money back-per their promises of satisfaction, all Wendy Young from Response did was offer me even MORE training, which in all likelihood they would eventually charge me for!! I have run out room-for your sake RUN!!

Karen is a great teacher, she is detail oriented and explains things so you can understand better. I really enjoyed her teaching Boots. Every teacher has something to add...she took the extra time to make sure everyone understood.

Very good info. Just was unable to log in the first day, so I wasn't sure what they were talking about at times on day two.

Karen Ellsworth's 3-day Boots on the Ground training for Response was magnificent. I've taken the 3-day in-person training and the on-demand training and the 3-day livecast training with others, but Karen's training strategies and styles covered topics where I had questions and others I think had not be clearly presented before. She deserves 5 Stars (Excellent) for her work!