Is Wealth Mentor legit? How to verify us (and any property mentor) yourself

Asking whether a property mentoring company is legitimate is exactly the right question, because the industry is unregulated — anyone in New Zealand can call themselves a property mentor tomorrow, and some of the sector's reputation problems are well earned. This page answers the question the way we'd want it answered about anyone else: who Wealth Mentor actually is, how the business makes money, what it is and isn't allowed to do, and the specific checks you can run yourself — on us or on any mentor you're considering.

Who Wealth Mentor is

Wealth Mentor is operated by Wealth Mentor Education Limited, a New Zealand company with its registered address at 81 Grafton Road, Grafton, Auckland 1010. You can verify the company yourself on the New Zealand Companies Register (companiesoffice.govt.nz) — a check worth running on any education or mentoring business before you pay them anything. Wealth Mentor Education is the trading company owned by Wealth Mentor Ltd (being the IP-owning company) and is part of an ownership group that also operates Property Club, a separate membership platform for NZ property investors — we disclose that relationship publicly. Both Wealth Mentor Education and Property Club hold a licence to operate Wealth Mentor's programmes and IP.

All three companies are directed by Kyron Gosse, a New Zealand citizen and a property investor since 2012.

Wealth Mentor as a business was started in 2010. Kyron and the current shareholders purchased the business in July 2023.

How we make money — and how we don't

Wealth Mentor sells education and mentoring programmes at published prices: Property In Depth (a self-paced course, $1,995), Property Mastermind (group coaching and community, $9,995 for year one), and Mentor Me Fast Track (1:1 mentoring, $30,000). That's the whole revenue model. Specifically, Wealth Mentor does not:

• Sell you property. We don't source, list, or market properties, and no developer pays us to place their stock with you. You find your own deals; your mentor reviews them.
• Take a cut of your deals. No commission, no clip on purchase or sale, no success fee. A mentor whose income depends on you transacting has an incentive problem; ours are paid to mentor, not to close you on a property.
• Hide the price until a seminar. Every programme's price is published on this site. The free strategy call is a conversation about fit, not a pressure environment engineered around a one-night-only discount. This matters because the classic failure mode in this industry is the "free seminar" that funnels into an unpriced upsell, or "mentoring" that's really a sales channel for marked-up property. Whatever you decide about us, screen every provider for those two patterns.

What Wealth Mentor is not

Wealth Mentor is not a licensed Financial Advice Provider, and mentoring is not regulated financial advice. Mentors teach from their own experience and review the deals you bring — they don't take your full financial position into account the way a licensed adviser must, and they don't tell you what you should do with your money. We're explicit about this because blurring the line is another industry failure mode. For decisions about lending structure, insurance, and how property fits your wider finances, we encourage every student to use an independent licensed adviser, accountant, and lawyer — alongside the mentoring, not instead of it. See property mentor vs coach vs financial adviser for where each fits. And no — mentoring doesn't guarantee results. What mentoring buys is experience and judgment applied to your specific situation; what you do with it, and what the market does, still determines the outcome.

The certification standard — our answer to an unregulated market

Because no regulator vets property mentors, we built our own bar and published it: every Wealth Mentor mentor must have at least 5 years invested and proven, verified results in each specific strategy they mentor on — buy and hold, trading, development, creative cashflow, or commercial property. Certification is per strategy, not blanket: a mentor certified in buy and hold is not thereby certified to mentor development. Each mentor's profile discloses exactly which strategies they hold certification in, so you can see what a mentor is — and isn't — qualified to guide you on before you ever talk to them. The full detail is at how Wealth Mentor certifies its mentors.

Track records are verified with the mentor directly as part of certification rather than accepted as self-reported claims. It's a higher bar than the market default, which is no bar at all.

Checks you can run yourself — on us or anyone

Don't take a company's own website as the final word, including this one. Before paying any property mentor or education business in New Zealand:

1. Look up the company on the Companies Register — does the legal entity exist, who are the directors, how long has it operated?
2. Ask what they currently own. A real mentor talks about their current portfolio and current deals, not just wins from a different market a decade ago.
3. Ask about a deal that went wrong. Everyone who has actually invested has one. Evasion here tells you everything.
4. Ask to speak with past students directly — not curated testimonials, actual conversations.
5. Ask how they get paid. If any part of the answer involves commissions on property they help you buy, understand exactly whose interests are being served.
6. Check the price is published and that you're given time to decide. Pressure tactics and vanishing discounts are a red flag in any education business.
7. Read the terms. Ours are published at Terms & Conditions — check any provider's cancellation and refund position before signing. We're comfortable being run through this list — it's the same one we'd hand you for evaluating anyone else.

Talk to a mentor before you commit

Wealth Mentor's process is deliberately two-way: you can review mentor profiles, and you can book in to interview a mentor before any programme starts — both the mentor and the student have to agree before a mentorship goes ahead. The entry point is a free strategy call, which is about working out whether there's a fit and which level (course, group, or 1:1) actually matches where you are — including telling you honestly if the answer is "start with the $1,995 course, not the $30,000 programme." See how Wealth Mentor matches you with a mentor for how pairing works.

This page is general information, not financial, legal, or tax advice. Which option suits any individual depends on their circumstances — seek independent professional advice.