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About Carleton H. Sheets
- Carleton H.
- Sheets (born August 25, 1939) is a prominent real estate investor and author who was notable for television infomercials which marketed real estate business learning materials.
- Sheets has appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows.
- His No Down Payment television program won numerous awards and is credited as being the longest running program of its kind- spanning 25 years. Sheets was born in Illinois and moved to Delaware, Ohio, where his father worked for Procter & Gamble.
- One of his early jobs was marketing soft-drink bottle caps and later became director of marketing for a Florida company that was a major processor of orange juice.
- In the 1970s, he started investing in property, and in the early 1980s he worked as a pitchman for a company that represented the real estate authority Robert G.
- Allen, an early advocate of the "no-money-down" path to financial success. In 1984 Sheets teamed up with businessmen from Chicago, Mark S.
- Holecek and Donald R.
- Strumillo, to form their venture "Professional Education Institute." The privately held "Professional Education Institute" is incorporated as AMS Direct, Inc.
- It was founded in 1983 and is based in Burr Ridge, Illinois with coaching locations and operations in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- The Better Business Bureau has reported hundreds of complaints from customers of Mr.
- Sheets and P.E.I., many of them contending that they were overbilled and had difficulties securing refunds.
- A few state attorney general offices say they have received a handful of similar complaints over the years.
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