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Atlanta REIA Main Meeting on October 1st with Alan Cowgill on Private Lending
Posted on September 24, 2012 byPLEASE NOTE: The Atlanta REIA Main Monthly Meeting has moved to the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel located at 4355 Ashford Dunwoody Road in Atlanta, GA.
with Alan Cowgill at the
Crowne Plaza Ravinia on October 1st
Atlanta REIA Members Can Attend at No Charge.
Guests Can RSVP Online Now for $10 or Pay $20 at the Door.
We are excited to announce Private Lending Expert, Alan Cowgill, will be our guest speaker at Atlanta REIA on October 1st. Alan is an author, a national speaker, and a private lending consultant specializes in raising private money to fund all of his real estate investing deals and he is coming to Atlanta to teach you to do the same.
At this meeting, Alan will show you how you can get the money you need to buy single-family houses, commercial buildings, apartment complexes, or luxury homes, regardless of your credit or financial situation. Alan will show you these crucial 5 steps to success, so that you can find all the private money you need. He will teach you how to:
- Build Credibility
- Generate Leads
- Secure Private Lenders
- Buy/ Sell Property
- Get Paid!
Alan is going to show you how to pre-screen your prospects and the “Magic” words to get them to commit. He will talk to you about scripts you should use when talking to people you know, and their voicemails. He will also show you how and why to avoid the four common types of financing to fund your deals. He will also show you how to borrow private money without having to make monthly payments. Alan will teach you all this and more so you can buy and sell all the investment properties you want to without having to worry about where you will get the money.
PLEASE NOTE: Guests can Join Atlanta REIA as a Silver Member for a full year for only $100, now through October 1st and attend our Atlanta REIA Meeting on Monday at no charge and as well as Alan Cowgill’s Raising Private Money Workshop on October 6th.
“What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA” is a mini-session hosted by Atlanta REIA Executive Director, Dustin Griffin, to update our members and guests on many of the exciting new things that are going on at Atlanta REIA in the upcoming weeks and months such as upcoming workshops, webcasts, special events, members benefits and more!
“There’s an App for That” is a fun new mini-session dedicated to updating you on some of the latest and greatest applications or “apps” for your iPad, iphone or Droid smartphones and tablets for both business and personal use. We want to help you become a high-tech, mobile real estate entrepreneur and this month, Don DeRosa is going to help you do just that!
“Have’s & Wants Speed Marketing” is 30 minute marketing session hosted by Joe Thompson that is held to help facilitate deals by giving our members the opportunity to quickly market things they HAVE and no longer want and to find things they WANT but don’t yet have. Be sure to get to the meeting early and get on the speed marketing list if you want to participate.
with Michael Keefe on Purchasing Tax Deeds
Michael Keefe will be our speaker for this month’s Active Investor Group on Monday, October 1st at 3:00 PM at Total Wine & More located at 124 Perimeter Center W (see map), where he will be sharing information on the very lucrative investment strategy of purchasing tax deeds. He will discuss how to find, evaluate, and purchase tax deeds and explain how to avoid the common pitfalls in the bidding process . Tax sales are a special real estate investing niche utilized by advanced investors. We are lucky to have Michael share his vast experience in this little understood arena. Come learn to purchase a deed for pennies on the dollar. Learn to purchase vacant lots at fire sales. Learn to get excellent returns on your investment with no tenants and no toilets.
After the conclusion of the Main Meeting, we will be reconvening at the Tilted Kilt Perimeter located at 1155-B Mount Vernon Highway in Atlanta for the “Meeting after the Meeting”. The Tilted Kilt will be offering half price appetizers as well as food and drink specials for our members and guests. Come eat, drink, network and have fun with us as hang out late into the night!
*Please Note: Meeting agenda is subject to change.
Each and every month, for the duration of our meeting, we have a Vendor Trade Show in which you can come out and meet many of our participating business members who help sponsor our meeting. Thanks again sponsors!
Goldmine Properties, Inc. – As Atlanta’s first full service real estate wholesaler, Goldmine Properties offers wholesale property at 65% loan to value, with financing available. Purchase price and repairs are 65% of certified after repaired appraisal. Read More→
American IRA – The American IRA mission is to provide the highest level of customer service in the self-directed retirement industry. Read More→
Networth Realty of Atlanta, LLC – A licensed, full-service residential wholesale brokerage that specializes in finding quality wholesale properties and making them available to you. Read More→
Halperin Lyman, LLC – A transactional real property law firm devoted to providing the full spectrum of non-litigation related real estate legal and consulting services to its clientele. Read More→
The Small Business Advisor – A full service small business consulting firm specializing in QuickBooks with a wide variety of specialized services, trainings and products for small businesses. Read More→
Atlanta Private Lending – Atlanta’s premier private real estate lending company. We provide private, hard money loans to professional real estate investors for renovation and investment purposes. Read More→
Lima One Capital, LLC – A fully capitalized, direct lender for residential real estate investors and homebuilders. We are fully capitalized and our team prides itself on closing loans quickly for our clients. Read More→
Angel Oak Funding – A direct hard money lender headquartered in Atlanta. We provide renovation/construction loans for investors and or builders to purchase and renovate residential properties. Read More>>
Advanta IRA Administration – With the help of your local Advanta IRA staff, use your IRA to invest in assets you know, understand and control, such as real estate, notes & mortgages, private placements, and much more!
Paces Funding – A direct hard money lender based in Atlanta. We specialize in quickly closing investor rehab loans. Low hassles lead to quicker profits. Read More→
Atlanta Carpet Services, Inc. – Providing carpet, wood, vinyl, and tile, ACS is dedicated to every aspect of your floor covering needs from initial consultation to the sale and follow-up services. Read More→
Fuller Center for Housing of Greater Atlanta – A faith-driven, Christ-centered, non-profit organization dedicated to providing adequate shelter for people in need in the Greater Atlanta area. Read More→
Craftbuilt, Inc.
Scott Bowen’s Specialized Services
C. Brown Property Management
Also, special thanks to all of our volunteers that help make our meetings and networking events possible!
Rock’s Rockin’ the House at Wild Wild West on Monday Sept. 25
Posted on September 24, 2012 byHey fellow real estate investors, let me ask you a question. Do you have all the motivated sellers you can handle contacting you to sell you their house? Are you so bogged down in leads that you don’t know what to do with them all? My guess is your answer is a resounding “no”. This is one of the biggest mistakes I see both new and seasoned investors make. They wonder why they aren’t doing deals, while somehow missing the very important fact that they aren’t focused on marketing that will get their phone to ring consistently with motivated sellers who need to sell their house NOW. Miss this key element and you won’t be in business very long before you are frustrated and wondering if the real estate business is really for you. Get this down and practice it consistently in your business and your world will be changed for the better!
This month at Wild Wild West Subgroup local investor and real estate expert Rock Shukoor will be sharing with us tips, strategies, and techniques he uses to get motivated sellers contacting him constantly. It stands to reason the more leads you can generate, the more money you will make, right? Very few real estate investors have the successful track record that Rock does. He knows how to consistently implement marketing that drives leads to him, rather than him chasing after unmotivated sellers and dead end leads that suck your time and energy dry. Rock has been investing in residential real estate for more than 10 years. Along the way he’s acquired a wealth of knowledge about marketing that you can benefit from! If you think you have to have a large marketing budget to pull off having a steady stream (river!) of motivated sellers contacting you, think again. You don’t! Rock’s marketing methods are of little to no cost to implement, I promise you.
Rock will be sharing well over 35 of these successful, low to no-cost methods with us on Monday at Wild Wild West. A small sampling of these include:
- Internet marketing
- Email marketing
- Social media marketing
- Mobile media marketing
- Bandit signs
- Various forms of traditional marketing
- And much, much more!
Private Lending Workshop with Alan Cowgill on October 6, 2012
Posted on September 17, 2012 byCould You Use An Unlimited Supply Of Money To Fund All the Real Estate Deals You Can Find?
Now is your chance to learn how to raise all the private money you need to fund all your residential and commercial real estate deals. On Saturday, October 6th, Atlanta REIA is having a Private Lending Workshop with Private Lending Expert, Alan Cowgill, at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel located at 4355 Ashford Dunwoody Road in Atlanta, GA. Alan is a real estate investor, author, a national speaker, and a private lending consultant who will show you how you can get the money you need to buy single-family houses, commercial buildings, apartment complexes, or luxury homes, regardless of your credit or financial situation.
The first 25 people to register for the workshop above will receive a copy Alan’s book entitled “How To Get All The Money You Need To Buy Property” valued at $16.95. Read More→
Seph, Meet Your Parents – Back Then
Posted on September 17, 2012 byJoseph David English, welcome to the world! By the time you’re able to read and fully understand this letter, your parents, Joe and Ashley, will be wealthy real estate investors who, it will appear to you, have nothing better to do than travel the world having fun while constantly interfering in your life.
I’m writing this to you, Seph, because it’s important you know that your parents weren’t born with silver spoons in their mouths. Their success wasn’t due to luck or a winning lottery ticket. Your mom and dad’s success was a worked-at, strived-for thing. In the early years of their marriage they sacrificed greatly. They lived like no one else so that one day, they – and you – could live like no one else!
You were born on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 11:57 p.m., at the Gordon County Hospital. There to welcome you was a waiting room full of joyous family and friends, many of whom were real estate investors. You may think that there’s no such thing as a born real estate investor, but trust me on this, Seph – you are one! Read More→
Oh, How I Love Trusts!
Posted on September 17, 2012 byBusiness owners, here’s something to consider: Let’s say you’re a real estate investor and you’ve spent the past fifteen years working and sacrificing to build a portfolio of twenty single-family rental homes. Your portfolio has a lot of equity and great cash flow. You’ve finally reached the point where you can relax, travel and enjoy life – Oh, and yes, you DID build it yourself!
Then you get The Call. It’s from one of those one-call-that’s-all, flea-bag attorneys who tells you that he’s representing one of your tenants who was seriously injured after falling down some steps at one of your rentals. Of course, he fails to mention that your tenant was inebriated at the time he fell – the attorney doesn’t want things like facts and the truth to get in the way of his big, easy payday!
The attorney threatens to sue you for ten million dollars, or explains that you can simply write a fifteen thousand dollar check and avoid the lawsuit. Oh sure – in many circles this “offer” would be considered extortion, but because it’s an attorney making the call, it’s instead called “settlement negotiations.” Read More→
Landlords’ #1 Legal Mistake
Posted on September 17, 2012 byLast week, Houston Long, a fellow real estate investor and longtime friend (though he doesn’t like admitting to the “longtime friend” part), had to take a tenant to Magistrate Court to seek an eviction. The tenant had quit paying rent. This left Houston with no option but to try and get the tenant out and his rental property back.
Taking a tenant to court should be a no-other-choice decision. For Houston, who’s been managing tenants and rental properties for more than eight years, this is the first time he’s had to take a tenant to court. Previously, he had been able to resolve all landlord-tenant issues at the tenant’s kitchen table without getting a Magistrate Judge involved.
Houston didn’t ask me to attend his dispossessory hearing, but with it being his first time in court and because I was secretly hoping his case would turn into an exciting landlord-tenant train wreck, I couldn’t keep myself away. Read More→
What We See When Working Foreclosures
Posted on September 17, 2012 byWe bought two properties at the August foreclosure auction in Bartow County. After the auction, a new real estate investor asked us a question we hear often: What do you see when you’re out working foreclosures? Today’s column answers this question.
A couple of days ago, I headed out to look at some properties scheduled to be sold at the September foreclosure auction. Joining me were my buddies Houston Long and John Clark. Houston is an experienced investor who has one of the best creative deal-structuring minds around. John is new to real estate investing and is a quick learner.
Our goal was to see 27 properties that day. (There are a total of 115 properties advertised to be sold at September’s foreclosure auction in Bartow County.) To make finding the properties easier, Houston maps them on his iPad, then breaks Bartow into quadrants and sectors. Working with him reminds me of a Tom Clancy novel and having “John Clark” in the car definitely adds to this feeling.
Of the foreclosure properties we saw, a little over a third were abandoned. A good number of these had been empty for six months or longer. Sadly, this ratio is pretty typical. Read More→
The Magic Happens at the Seller’s Kitchen Table – Part 3
Posted on September 17, 2012 by
In the first two parts (Part 1 & Part 2) of this series, we discussed the best way for real estate investors to quickly find folks who want to sell their home. Today, let’s talk about what to do once you’re face-to-face with a seller.
OK, you’re in the seller’s house. What should you do first? The thing I want to do first is go straight to the seller’s kitchen table and find out why she is selling her home. But what usually happens is that I’m given a grand tour of the property.
In years past, these tours bored me to tears. I’d think: Wow, there’s a bathroom and a couple of bedrooms down this hall – who would have guessed? But with time, I’ve learned that the tour is a great time to begin building a relationship with the seller.
These days, as I’m shown around the seller’s house, I pick out the odd things the seller owns – you know, the things that don’t really belong. When I see an oddity I ask, “What in the heck is this thing?” Often, the seller lights up and launches into an interesting story. Curiosity will help you build rapport. Read More→
What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA – Week of September 17, 2012
Posted on September 17, 2012 by
This week, Movers & Shakers meets on Monday. Tuesday is a webcast on Mobile Websites for Real Estate Investors with Dustin Griffin. Wednesday is Atlanta REIA North on Marketing Techniques for Real Estate Investors followed by Late Nite Networking at the Tilted Kilt Buford. Thursday is the Haves & Wants Meeting and an Evening with a Real Estate Expert webcast with Private Money Expert, Alan Cowgill. Saturday is the “How to Make $20K Days Workshop” with Don DeRosa. Read More→
Six Member-Only Webcast Replays
Posted on September 7, 2012 by
Real Estate Joint Ventures & Wealth Without Risk
with Dustin Griffin & Duncan Wierman on August 30, 2012
On this webcast, Duncan Wierman taught us about how to use real estate joint ventures to create wealth without risk using the latest real estate investing techniques and technology. If you would like to learn how to use technology to help you buy and sell more houses than you ever thought possible, without even leaving your house, this is a webcast replay you don’t want to miss. Watch Webcast→
More Mobile Media Marketing for Real Estate Investors
with Dustin Griffin & Mike Barnes on August 28, 2012
On this webcast, mobile media marketing expert, Mike Barnes showed us some of the tools we use create and maintain our mobile websites as well as the Mobile Media Marketing Platform we use for QR code Marketing, Text Message Marketing and so much more. If you are truly interested in being cutting edge and using Mobile Media Marketing to promote your business, this is a webcast you don’t want to miss. Watch Webcast→
Mobile Media Marketing for Real Estate Investors
with Dustin Griffin & Mike Barnes on August 21, 2012
On this webcast, mobile media marketing expert, Mike Barnes introduced some of the major Mobile Media Marketing Tools that you need to consider adding to your marketing efforts to help to build your buyer, seller, tenant and customer lists, to reach your lists more effectively, to generate more traffic to your websites and/or place of business and to dramatically increase your sales and profits! Watch Webcast→
Making a Fortune in the Real Estate Recovery
with Dustin Griffin & Marc Hrisko on August 16, 2012
On this webcast, we set down with Marc Hrisko and talked about “Making a Fortune in the Real Estate Recovery”. Marc talked about the mountain of opportunity that exists out there in the real estate marketplace if you know where to look, and more importantly, what to do when you find it. Watch Webcast→
Using Land Trusts to Control & Hold Real Estate
with Dustin Griffin & Larry Harbolt on August 14, 2012
On this webcast, creative real estate expert, Larry Harbolt, joined us for a very informative webcast on how and why you should be using Land Trusts to purchase and control your real estate deals. Larry also gave us a preview of what he will be teaching at his full day workshop with Robyn Thompson in Atlanta on August 18th. Watch Webcast→
An Evening with Real Estate Expert Robyn Thompson
with Dustin Griffin & Robyn Thompson on July 26, 2012
On this webcast, Robyn talked in detail about how to decide which houses to flip for quick cash versus which houses to keep and hold for long term wealth creation and cash flow. She also talked about making the mental transition from the employee mindset to the 7 figure business owner mindset and well as the 5 important steps that took her from broke to millionaire status in just a few short years. Watch Replay→
Short Sale & Foreclosure Group Meets Sept 10, 2012 at 3PM
Posted on September 7, 2012 by
Bob Massey here, and I hope to see you this Monday, September 10th at 3pm for the Atlanta REIA Foreclosure Subgroup meeting. At this meeting I am going to be covering some critical information you need to be a successful investor in this crazy market.
We’re going to be talking about the foreclosure process, short sales, and beyond. We’ll explain both the foreclosure and short sale processes from top to bottom, including what strategies are working best today, and the key mistakes that will absolutely kill your deals.
We’re also going to be explaining the securitization racket that has defrauded our entire country. Not only will you learn more about the banking system than most attorneys and judges in the U.S., but you will learn how to use this information to do some incredible deals. Chances are you’re going to learn how the banks defrauded you on your mortgage!
I’m really looking forward to seeing you at the meeting Monday, September 10, at 3pm!
The Short Sale & Foreclosure Group (SSF), hosted by Bob Massey, will have it’s quarterly meeting on Monday, September 10th at 3 PM in a private meeting room at Total Wine & More located at 124 Perimeter Center W (see map).
Webcast Replay: Real Estate Joint Ventures & Wealth Without Risk
Posted on September 6, 2012 by
On August 30, 2012, Duncan Wierman joined us for Training Opportunity Webcast where he taught us about “Real Estate Joint Ventures & Wealth Without Risk” using the latest real estate investing techniques and technology. If you would like to learn how to use technology to help you buy and sell more houses than you ever thought possible, without even leaving your house, this is a webcast replay you don’t want to miss. Watch the webcast replay now! Read More→
