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Did Donald Trump Run a Scam University?
National Review ^ | 07/16/2015 | Jillian Kay Melchior

Posted on 07/16/2015 5:03:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary did..... It was called University of Benghazi ! Look it up sometime media!


21 posted on 07/16/2015 5:32:32 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: 4rcane

Go to one of the pitches some weekend ( there are almost always seminars somewhere) and listen for yourself

There is NOTHING illegal unethical or “immoral” here

Most have the same focus: find and buy tax liens on property ( liens issued by local govt for nonpayment of taxes or assessments) .... Focus on residential business land ... You choose

Either collect interest when the owner pays the lien, or take possession of the property if they do not

Once you own the property flip it, fix and flip it, rent it, or use it

The sellers Of these seminars provide an education in how the system works and the better ones have a network of research services that locate properties with tax liens and also a network of investors with cash who will buy these properties quick and cheap from you if you flip it, or you can find your own buyer

Example you buy lien for $900 on property assessed at $300k, owner defaults on it, you now own the property which you flip to investor fir $50k
Nothing illegal nothing immoral and property ts recycled back to productive asset on city tax base

No one understands better than Trump how to become a self-made investor with real estate

Not that everyone who buys the seminar will end up following the program and be successful....


22 posted on 07/16/2015 5:34:24 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: CaptainK
Had to be many more satisfied students relative to unsatisfied one’s if Trump U. took in over $40 million yet only the claimant's payments only amount to $1.5 million.

Sounds like the aggrieved didn't want to do the leg work involved.

23 posted on 07/16/2015 5:34:47 AM PDT by bramps (Wake me up when we find a candidate to take on the scourge that is Islam.)
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To: VanDeKoik

You beat me to it.


24 posted on 07/16/2015 5:36:08 AM PDT by odawg
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To: CaptainK

$35k? I was just quoted $47k to get an ONLINE BA in history and that was with half the credits transferred from my existing BA and MBA and work experience!

Too much for a hobby degree from an online diploma mill


25 posted on 07/16/2015 5:43:24 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf
I was just quoted $47k to get an ONLINE BA in history and that was with half the credits transferred from my existing BA and MBA and work experience!

Check with your local universities. It's amazing how much they do online anymore, and for a lot less than $47K.

26 posted on 07/16/2015 5:48:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: bramps

I know people who flip houses and are very successful at it. You just need to know how to go about it. Sounds like a bunch of sour grapes to me. My question is - why would people put #34,000 on a credit card, when they could use that same money for a down payment on a foreclosure home, renovate it and then flip it for a profit? People really are stupid.


27 posted on 07/16/2015 5:48:48 AM PDT by Catsrus (WWWW)
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To: Catsrus

why would people put #34,000 on a credit card, when they could use that same money for a down payment on a foreclosure home, renovate it and then flip it for a profit?


Lets see, which one of those is easier...........................


28 posted on 07/16/2015 5:51:31 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Come on. Who cares what he has ever done in the past?

Haven’t you heard he is attacking illegal aliens? That is all that matters now.

/s


29 posted on 07/16/2015 5:58:59 AM PDT by nitzy (I don't vote for Republican'ts)
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To: katana

you do know that the NY State Supreme Court is not a “supreme court?” Right? It is one of Sheldon Silver’s appointed judges. Lowest level in the NY judicial system. The “supreme court” in New York is called the Court of Appeals.


30 posted on 07/16/2015 6:00:47 AM PDT by anton
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To: Catsrus

People who can utilize these techniques and networks are not looking at fixing and flipping houses 1 at a time and only in neighborhood where they have physical access

They are paying to tap into a national network of pre-researched properties
In decent areas that support the comps, with liens coming up in short term for redemption, and all over the USA

So the pitch is you buy several liens and either just end up with the interest ( which beats the banks by far) or you end up “owning” a property 6 states away that you may never see, never have to go find and hire contractors to fix, and have investors with cash willing to buy them from you in a week - as long as you are not greedy( ie, sell home worth potentially $300k when fixed, for $10k to cash investor, based on your having got it for a $700 lien)


31 posted on 07/16/2015 6:01:19 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: austinaero

I hope you’re right but, no doubt, they’ll harp on this forever.


32 posted on 07/16/2015 6:01:21 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: SeekAndFind
I have mixed feelings about this story. Whose got that type of money to throw around? Were these the same type of people who pay $10,000 to go to a campaign dinner and knew what they were getting for their money or were these the type of people handing over their life savings.

If he actually had a 98% satisfaction rate, I'd say it was the first type. Those that felt they would get something out of the connection to the Trump name.

I think whether it was licensed or not is a silly complaint used to smear him. Whether the University used high pressure selling techniques on naïve people will need to be settled in court.

Did the people who were unsatisfied try to get their money back or did they go for the class action law suit? The couple cited in the article did not try to get their money back. That's a red flag that they are filing this suit for other reasons than the money. Lots of unanswered questions here.

33 posted on 07/16/2015 6:09:37 AM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: anton

Lol it won’t matter.

a. People don’t care- most if not all know it’s an attempt to damage Trump and has no real basis.

b. Trump will just use the controversy to his advantage by telling the truth


34 posted on 07/16/2015 6:25:17 AM PDT by Principled (...the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others...)
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To: Enlightened1

Goldman Sachs and Neuberger Berman employees make up the bulk of ¡Jeb!’s paltry 12,334 donors.


35 posted on 07/16/2015 6:32:13 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Principled

Lol....maybe Trump will sue National Peeyiew.


36 posted on 07/16/2015 6:34:14 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: SeekAndFind

Did Trump make fake candy for poor kids? It now begins seeing’s how Jeb is faltering.


37 posted on 07/16/2015 6:36:33 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: VanDeKoik

Yeah. They probably didn’t offer these solid majors like other universities around America:

Women’s studies
Gender studies
Secularism
LGBT studies
Film
Puppetry
English Literature/Literary Criticism
Music Therapy
Sequential Art
Surf Science and Technology
Golf Management
Evolutionary biology
Journalism


38 posted on 07/16/2015 6:50:21 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: anton

Perhaps you’re right about that and I was misled by the author’s mention of “New York State supreme-court justice Cynthia S. Kern”. The Bush loyalists and other such Democrat-lites in the GOP may be pushing this story, but Trump’s name and image being used as the basis of what looks like a squalid scam gave them that opening. And I have to say it reinforces my own long time opinion of Mr. Trump. I can agree with and be pleased with his blowing the lid off the illegal immigrant and sanctuary cities issue, and his DILLIGAF? attitude in general. But that doesn’t mean I trust him.


39 posted on 07/16/2015 8:25:10 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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