It's nearly midnight, and the energy is slipping from the 400 people inside an auditorium done up like a Spanish mission in Riverside, Calif. Despite hours of yelling, dancing, massaging and hugging his way through the first of a three-day wealthfest, Armando Montelongo, the 42-year-old minister of get-rich-quickdom, real estate edition, senses the lull. He bounds up the stage to lead a rendition of "YMCA," but not before remarking to me, "It's a little more f---ed up than you thought, right?"
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