♪ money money money >> the apprentice was on and we'd been seeing him be held up and touted as this amazing real estate person. so i thought, hey, it's a free seminar, i'm going to go across town and, you know, see what he has to say. >> so the apprentice influenced you in the sense that that image that was portrayed. >> absolutely. >> beth wood spent 20 years in i.t. as a systems analyst. >> you have a graduate degree -- >> in 2010 she was newly retired and studying real estate for a second career. >> that first time, what was the pitch? >> they showed a video of donald trump -- >> at trump university we -- >> saying that he was going to reveal the secrets of real estate. that how to make you successful in real estate. like he was. >> the world's most famous businessman. >> and he would do this with his hand picked, hand verified, blessed, personally selected