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Determining Your Marketing Plan in 7 Easy Steps
Posted on October 5, 2013 by
One of the things I have learned over the years about my ongoing marketing efforts is that my results only seem to be limited by how much time, effort and creativity I put into the marketing process and not how much money I spend. The more time and energy I put into the marketing of my real estate investment business, the better my results tend to be. When I decide to slack up, get lazy and not stick to my marketing plan, my results quickly diminish as a result.
This is also true of the people I hire to market my business for me. Their success does not depend on how much I pay them, nor the size of their marketing budget, but how much time, energy and creativity they put into the marketing process.
Remember, 800 Pound Guerilla Marketing is about dominating your local market using a little time, effort, creativity and a relatively low budget using both new and traditional marketing techniques along with the power of the Internet. The more time, effort and creativity you put into the marketing process, the better your results should be.
As real estate investors, one of our most important responsibilities is to generate a steady flow of motivated buyer and seller leads for our business. After all, no leads = no deeds = no profits. If we don’t want to be responsible for personally generating leads ourselves, then we must hire someone competent to generate leads for us. But even if we do hire someone, it is still our responsibility to make sure they are generating the quantity and quality of leads we need to meet our business’s short term and long term financial goals.
If you want to generate all the leads you can handle for your real estate investing business, start by following these 7 easy steps to determine your marketing plan and your marketing budget: Read More→
101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop – Session 4 Replay
Posted on September 27, 2013 by
On September 27, 2013, Dustin Griffin conducted Session #4 of the 101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop to teach you many of the 800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Strategies and Techniques he and other successful investors use to generate all the buyer and seller leads they can handle on a low budget and how you can too. In Session #4, Dustin covered the ways #76 through #101 to generate motivated buyer and seller leads.
If you registered for this Online Workshop, you can login and watch the Workshop Replay below as well as see the class outline and download the Workshop Workbook, Worksheets and other Class Handouts. Read More→
101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop – Session 3 Replay
Posted on September 20, 2013 byOn September 20, 2013, Dustin Griffin conducted Session #3 the 101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop to teach you many of the 800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Strategies and Techniques he and other successful investors use to generate all the buyer and seller leads they can handle on a low budget and how you can too. In Session #3, Dustin covered the ways #31 through #75 to generate motivated buyer and seller leads.
If you registered for this Online Workshop, you can login and watch the Workshop Replay below as well as see the class outline and download the Workshop Workbook, Worksheets and other Class Handouts. Read More→
101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop – Session 2 Replay
Posted on September 13, 2013 byOn September 13, 2013, Dustin Griffin conducted Session #2 of the 101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop to teach you many of the 800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Strategies and Techniques he and other successful investors use to generate all the buyer and seller leads they can handle on a low budget and how you can too. In Session #2, Dustin covered the first 30 ways to generate motivated buyer and seller leads.
If you registered for this Online Workshop, you can login and watch the Workshop Replay below as well as see the class outline and download the Workshop Workbook, Worksheets and other Class Handouts. Read More→
Atlanta REIA 2012 Webcast Replays
Posted on September 12, 2013 byAtlanta REIA Members get 24/7/365 access to all of our Webcast Replays. Members can Login and watch any of our Webcast Replays below.
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Seller Financing Made Easy
with Dustin Griffin & Larry Harbolt on October 8, 2012
Larry Harbolt is a long time real estate investor and trainer who specializes in using Seller Financing and Creative Deal Structuring to purchase real estate so that he does not need to use his own cash or credit. On this webcast, Larry is going to teach you how you can too can use seller financing so you can avoid using your own cash or credit. Watch Webcast→
The Wealth Building Plan
with Dustin Griffin & Robyn Thompson on October 8, 2012
In the past, Robyn has made several appearances at Atlanta REIA and did a few webinars with us on “Fixing and Flipping Properties” (Rehabbing) as well as on “How to Run Your Business Like a Business and Not a Hobby”. But on this webinar, Robyn is going to talk about her long term strategies for accumulating wealth beyond the short term cash she receives from renovating and flipping houses. Watch Replay→
An Evening with Real Estate Expert Alan Cowgill
with Dustin Griffin & Alan Cowgill on September 20, 2012
On this webcast, Alan Cowgill talked about how he got started in the real estate investing business, and talked about how he and his students raise and use private money to buy all of their single-family houses, commercial buildings, apartment complexes or other investment properties regardless of their cash on hand, credit or financial situation. Watch Webcast→
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→
Cheap & Easy Ways to Find Motivated Sellers
with Dustin Griffin & Robert Woodruff on July 19, 2012
Do you want killer real estate deals? Do you want deals as low as 10 cents on the dollar? Don’t waste your time and money on marketing strategies that don’t work when you can learn how to save thousands of dollars on your advertising costs. Listen to the replay and let Robert Woodruff teach you how to find the best deals from motivated sellers, in any market, at any time, for mere pennies-on-the-dollar. Listen to Replay→
How to Automate Your Business with Voice Mail & Live Answering Systems
with Dustin Griffin & Eric Shurke on June 28, 2012
Eric Shurke, of VoiceNation, talked about how successful real estate investors leverage automated voice mail systems and live answering specialists to capture leads 24/7 effortlessly so they can “work smarter” and not harder to earn more money.
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How to Get the POWER Out of Your Power of Attorney
with Dustin Griffin & Robert Woodruff on June 26, 2012
Robert Woodruff is going to show you is a closely guarded secret used by Professional Real Estate Investors all across the country to control investment property without ownership. Using this strategy will save you tens of thousands of dollars each year acquiring property. It doesn’t matter whether the property is a mobile home, a single family home, land, or commercial property.
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Don’t Delay and Throw Your Cash Away, Appeal Your Property Tax Today
with Dustin Griffin & LaGaylia Appleby on June 21, 2012
LaGaylia Appleby and her company work diligently to lower property taxes for both homeowners and real estate investors across the Atlanta Metro Arwea. She’s got many tips and techniques to share with us on how we can go about lowering our property taxes legally, ethically, and honestly. Watch the webcast replay and let LaGaylia show you how to lower your property taxes and lock in the lower rates for years! Watch Replay→
Hot New Atlanta REIA Member Benefits
with Dustin Griffin & Ben Rao on May 24, 2012
Ben updated us on all of the hot new Atlanta REIA Member Benefits available through the Community Buying Group. Don’t miss this opportunity to find out how to save big on products and services you may already be using from suppliers such as Lowe’s, Sun Belt Tool Rentals, Sherwin Williams, Sears Commercial, Sprint /Nextel, Rent Fast, Build a Sign and many others. Watch Replay→
How to Get Negatives Deleted Off Your Credit Report
with Stefan Kasian & Special Guest on April 24, 2012
In our first installment of the new Insider Secrets to Upgrade Your Prosperity Webcast Series, hosted by Dr. Stefan Kasian, on April 24th, 2012, he and a credit repair expert discussed how to get negatives deleted off your credit report. Watch Replay→
Wholesaling Houses For Fast, Frequent $5,000 Paydays
with Dustin Griffin & Russ Hiner on April 17, 2012
Wholesaling Houses for fast cash is hot because anyone can do it with little or no cash, credit, experience or risk. Because of this, wholesaling houses is one the fastest and easiest ways to get involved in real estate investing. Russ Hiner talked about how to quick turn houses for huge profits in today’s marketplace. Watch Replay→
High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop (Part 9)
with Dustin Griffin on April 10, 2012
In Part 9 of this workshop, Dustin picked up where he left off last month in Workshop #8 and talked about using the Super Smart Sell Site Back Office to build your buyers list, manage your tenant/buyer leads and more. Watch Workshop Replay→
How to Invest in Real Estate with Your IRA (Part 2 of 2)
with Dustin Griffin & Jim Hitt on March 29, 2012
Jim Hitt, aka “Mr. IRA” and the CEO of American IRA, was our special guest for part two of a two part webcast series on “How to Invest in Real Estate with Your IRA”. Part 2 focused on intermediate, advanced, and creative strategies for investing in real estate with your IRA and gave more examples of how to structure deals inside your IRA. Watch Replay→
An Evening with a Real Estate Expert
with Dustin Griffin & Robert Shemin on March 28, 2012
Bestselling author, wealth expert, financial commentator and multi-millionaire real estate investor, Robert Shemin, joined us for a very special Evening with a Real Estate Expert Webcast. The purpose of this webcast was to introduce Robert to our members, friends and followers and give them details about our two upcoming events with him. Watch Replay→
What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing: Short Sale Alternatives
with Bob Massey & Regis Sauger on March 27, 2012
Are burnt out on foreclosures and short sales due to all the time and frustration it takes dealing with the banks? If you’re tired of short sales, you need to watch webcast with Bob Massey and Regis Sauger. On this webcast, Bob and Regis talk about several hot, new, cutting-edge alternatives to short sales that will allow you to buy underwater properties, debt-free, with no short sale, no foreclosure, no deficiency and no deed-in-lieu for 65% of today’s fair market value! Watch Webcast Replay→
High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop (Part 8 )
with Dustin Griffin on March 6, 2012
In Part 8 of this workshop, Dustin picked up where he left off last month and showed you how to post your for sale/rent properties on sites such as WordPress, Facebook, Twitter and the new Properties.AtlantaREIA.com website. Dustin also talked about building your buyers list, managing your tenant/buyer leads and more. Watch Workshop Replay→
Turbo Charging Your Buying & Selling Machine
with Dustin Griffin & Kathy Kennebrook on March 1, 2012
Kathy Kennebrook joined us for a very special Training Opportunity Webcast on how to “Turbo Charging Your Buying & Selling Machine” using Direct Mail Marketing and other real estate investing strategies. Kathy explained how to buy and sell houses quickly in any market and as well as exactly how she runs her real estate business. Watch Replay→
An Evening with 2 Real Estate Attorneys
with Dustin Griffin, Craig Halperin & Jonathan Lyman
on February 28, 2012
Attorneys Craig Halperin and Jonathan Lyman answered many questions from our audience regarding title insurance, closing costs, liens, foreclosures, tax sales, entity setup, land trusts and more. Craig and Jonathan also talked about their upcoming presentation on “Title Insurance and Recording for Real Estate Investors: From Coverage and Rates to Proper Transfers in Georgia” at our Atlanta REIA Main Meeting on Monday, March 12, 2012. Watch Webcast Replay→
Real Estate Investing 101
with Dustin Griffin & Russ Hiner on February 16, 2012
Russ Hiner, did a special, unscheduled webcast to talk about the launch of the new “Real Estate Investing 101 Workshop” training series that starts on February 25, 2012. On this one hour webcast, Russ went into great detail about what he will be teaching at the first REI 101 Workshop and talked about why you don’t want to miss it. Watch Replay→
How to Invest in Real Estate with Your IRA (Part 1 of 2)
with Dustin Griffin & Jim Hitt on February 16, 2012
Jim Hitt, aka “Mr. IRA” and the CEO of American IRA, was our special guest for part one of a two part webcast series on “How to Invest in Real Estate with Your IRA”. The first webcast was focused on teaching you basic strategies for using your IRA to invest in real estate. Watch Replay→
Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #11
with Dustin Griffin on February 9, 2012
In Workshop #11, the final Wrap Up Session, Dustin reviewed everything covered in the previous 10 sessions, talked about how all the various Internet Marketing techniques work together, how to track marketing results, how to tweak your marketing results, how to develop a Internet Marketing Plan, a few more basic and intermediate SEO tips and answered final questions. Watch Workshop Replay→
High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop (Part 7)
with Dustin Griffin on February 7, 2012
In Part 7 of this workshop, Dustin showed attendees how to use their Super Smart Sell Site Back Office Websites to post their for sale/rent properties online, using copy and paste property flyers, posting their properties to the new Properties.AtlantaREIA.com website, building an electronic buyers list, managing tenant/buyer leads and much more. Watch Workshop Replay→
Uncensored Short Sales Secrets
with Dustin Griffin & Kimberlee Frank on February 6, 2012
On this webcast, Kimberlee teaches you 10 ways to get your short sale deals closed so you can get to your payday and not have your deal fall a part at the closing table. She tells you how the mortgage companies are changing their rules and how you need to change with them to get your deals done. You can’t close a short sale without knowing this valuable information. Watch Replay→
An Evening with a Rehabbing Expert: Robyn Thompson
with Dustin Griffin & Robyn Thompson on January 26, 2012
On this webcast, Robyn shared her story on how she got started investing in real estate over 13 years ago and has since bought, fixed and sold 300+ homes with price ranges as low as $8,000 to as high as $4,000,000. Robyn shared many of her secrets on how she markets, buys, renovates, sells or holds houses for huge profits. Watch Replay→
Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #10
with Dustin Griffin on January 24, 2012
In Workshop #10 on Email Marketing, Dustin taught attendees how to setup a free Email Marketing Provider account where they can send up to 12,000 emails per month at no charge. He taught attendees how to customize their account, create email signup forms, embed those forms on your website, WordPress blog and Facebook, create email templates, send newsletters and more! Watch Workshop Replay→
Turning Trash Leads into Cash Flowing Deeds
with Dustin Griffin & Don DeRosa on January 19, 2012
On this webcast, Don DeRosa spent an hour and a half sharing the state-of-the-art tools he uses to evaluate deals and figure out how to make them work for big profits and great cash flow. Don talked about the buying and selling strategies he uses to create winning deals, even when there appears to be nothing there to work with. Watch Replay→
What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing: Mobile Media Marketing
with Dustin Griffin & Rock Shukoor on January 17, 2012
On this webcast, Rock talked about what mobile marketing is and why you must integrate it into your business’s marketing strategy soon or risk being left behind. He also shared a few mobile media marketing strategies you can implement immediately to get your business on the right track. Rock also gave our audience several free bonuses you can download while you watch the replay. Watch Replay→
Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #9
with Dustin Griffin on January 12, 2012
In Workshop #9 on Social Bookmarking and RSS Feeds, Dustin taught attendees how to setup and use several popular social bookmarking sites, bookmarking widgets and tool bars that you and your site visitors can use to bookmark your websites, articles, posts, updates, videos, photos and more for SEO purposes. Dustin also showed attendees how to use RSS Feeds to syndicate their content on multiple websites, WordPress blogs, social networking sites automatically for maximum visibility and search engine optimization . Watch Workshop Replay→
High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop (Part 6)
with Dustin Griffin on January 3, 2012
In Part 6 of this workshop, Dustin gave attendees a general overview of the private Super Smart Buy Sell Back Office Website and Lead Management System and covered many of the basic and advanced features, benefits and available upgrades. Watch Workshop Replay→
101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop – Session 1 Replay
Posted on September 6, 2013 byOn September 6, 2013, Dustin Griffin kicked off the 101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop to teach you many of the 800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Strategies and Techniques he and other successful investors use to generate all the buyer and seller leads they can handle on a low budget and how you can too. For your convenience, this class is being offered online in 4 parts starting on Sept 6th with the other 3 parts taking place on Sept 13, 20 and 27.
In Session #1, Dustin gave a detailed overview of the marketing process and covered “How to Market Your Real Estate Investing Business in 7 Easy Steps”. The purpose of this session was to teach attendees how to design a marketing plan to generate all the buyer and seller leads they desire, based on their own budget and short term and long term financial goals.
If you registered for this Online Workshop, you can login and watch the Workshop Replay below as well as see the class outline and download the Workshop Workbook, Worksheets and other Class Handouts. Read More→
101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop Replays
Posted on September 6, 2013 byMotivated Buyer & Seller Leads
Online Workshop Replays
A 4 Part Online Workshop with Dustin Griffin
On September 6, 2013, Atlanta REIA and Dustin Griffin kicked off the “101+ Ways to Generate Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop” to teach you how to dominate your local real estate market both offline on online and generate all the motivated buyer and seller leads you need to run a successful home buying business using many free or very affordable marketing techniques.
For your convenience, this class is being offered online in 4 parts on Sept 6 13, 20 and 27. You will be able to watch each of these sessions on your schedule, over and over again as needed by logging into on AtlantaREIA.com’s Member Only Area and clicking on the replay links below as they are made available. If you are not an Atlanta REIA Member, you can Join Atlanta REIA first and attend this Online Workshop at No Charge for a limited time only.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are an Atlanta REIA Member who purchased this Online Workshop, you may now login to AtlantaREIA.com and watch replays of all the workshop replays as they become available by clicking the links below.
& Seller Leads Online Workshop Replays
Workshop replay links will be posted below as they become available.
Sept 6, 2013: Session #1 – Introduction to Marketing
Sept 13, 2013: Session #2 – 101+ Ways to Generate Leads (#1 – #30)
Sept 20, 2013: Session #3 – 101+ Ways to Generate Leads (#31 – #75)
Sept 27, 2013: Session #4 – 101+ Ways to Generate Leads (#76 – #101)
Oct X, 2013: Bonus Session #5 – Even More Ways to Generate Leads
The Profit Newsletter September 2013 Edition
Posted on September 2, 2013 by
The September 2013 edition of The Profit Newsletter is available for download just in time for our Atlanta REIA Main Meeting on September 9th. You can download The Profit Newsletter as a High Quality PDF or Low Res PDF for slower devices. The Profit is the official newsletter of the Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance and is a digital, interactive newsletter for new and seasoned real estate investors delivered as an Adobe PDF file to read on your PC, Mac, Smart Phone, iPad or other mobile ready devices with a PDF reader. Many of the articles and ads in The Profit contain many hyperlinks you can click or tap to visit websites, watch videos, listen to audios, download content, send emails, comment on articles, share socially and much more! The high res version of The Profit is “print ready” for those who want to print the newsletter on their home or business printer. Also, be sure to Subscribe to The Profit Here so you don’t miss a single monthly issue.
Marketing to Owners of Vacant Houses
Posted on September 2, 2013 by
Last month’s article was on “Driving for Dollars and Farming with Flyers”. As you are out driving neighborhoods in search of houses to buy, you will soon discover that there are many vacant houses out there. Some of these houses are obviously for sale or rent as indicated by a sign in the yard, but many are not so obvious. These houses are just sitting empty, often deteriorating, waiting for someone like you to come along and buy them. Many of these houses appear to have been abandoned and unkept.
Vacant houses often provide some of the best opportunities to create some killer deals. After all, many of the houses have mortgages, taxes and other expenses that the owner is responsible for paying, even as the house sites vacant and unused. Even houses that are free and clear have expenses the owner must pay to avoid tax liens and code enforcement violations. Since the owner doesn’t live in the house, they are often highly motivated and more than willing to do just about anything to get rid of it.
When I am out driving neighborhoods and spot a vacant house, I stop and take pictures and write down the address. If the house is for sale by owner or for rent, I write down the number on the sign and call the owner later. I will even call Realtors from time to time if I know the house has been sitting vacant for a while since the owner might be motivated and eager to sell. Read More→
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Real Estate Investor Profits $68,000 Because of Her Mentor!
By Kimberlee Frank
Don’t Question Having a Mentor… JUST HAVE ONE! I remember when I decided to quit my job as a legal secretary and become a millionaire in real estate! I started with Carleton Sheets’ course. Once it arrived, I was to read it and take action. Yeah, right! I found that between my J.O.B. (Just Over Broke) and taking care of my children, I was busy and distracted, so the course sat on my shelf collecting dust. About 6 months later… Read More>>
Marketing to Owners of Vacant Houses
By Dustin Griffin
Last month’s article was on “Driving for Dollars and Farming with Flyers”. As you are out driving neighborhoods in search of houses to buy, you will soon discover that there are many vacant houses out there. Some of these houses are obviously for sale or rent as indicated by a sign in the yard, but many are not so obvious. These houses are just sitting empty, often deteriorating, waiting for someone like you to come along and buy them. Many of these houses appear to have been abandoned and unkept. Read More>>
How to Get a FREE Phone Number to Use in Your Business – Part 2
By Tony Pearl
Here’s What We’re Going to Cover in THIS Article: A quick & easy shortcut to get to your GV options. This makes it really easy. A few secrets. You’ll need these. How to get SEVERAL Google Voice Numbers. Use ‘em for home or office! Some limitations (and how to overcome them). And finally… How to get a FREE home phone LINE (and number). Yes, it’s true! Read More>>
Coach’s Response: What Are Your Four Answers?
By Russ Hiner As the market improves, I have more and more people coming to me for coaching. I am excited about this because it means that you are taking responsibility for your success. You are reading my articles, and you are talking with me to achieve what you want in your life. Read More>>
7 Deadly Mistakes You Can Avoid – Part 3
By Ron LeGrand
There’s an old saying that goes “Even a turtle won’t get anywhere until he sticks his neck out.” Another old saying (that I made up) is “You’re never going to get rich sitting on your behind and waiting for it to come to you.” You have to make it happen. You have to get things started. You have to put the wheels in motion. And if they get stopped, guess who has to get them started again. You guessed right. Read More>>
What Is Securitization and Why Is It Fraudulent? Part 1
By Bob Massey
By now you have heard in the news about robo-signing, MERS, etc. and how the economy was brought down by Mortgage Backed Securities. But what, specifically, does that mean and how does it affect us as homeowners and real estate investors? As can be expected, the greatest financial fraud every pulled over in the history of the world began with taking away responsibility from banks and brokers… Read More>>
Case Study: Owner Carryback Financing
By Dyches Boddiford
With the real estate markets slowing in many areas of the country, we are seeing a resurgence of owner carryback financing. Most of you are aware of the basics of such financing, but you may not have been exposed to some of the more creative approaches. Read More>>
What is Creative Deal Structuring and Financing?
By Bill Cook
I’ve written a weekly real estate investing newspaper column for more than ten years. During this time, we’ve looked at all kinds of creative deal structures and financing…but what exactly are these? The easiest way to tell you what creative deal structuring is, is to tell you what it’s NOT. It’s not finding a house to buy at fair market value and then going to an institutional lender to get a traditional mortgage. Read More>>
Too-Cool Tools: Embracing Tomorrow
By Don DeRosa Remember last month, when I talked about how amazing it is that one little smartphone or tablet can do so many useful things? Well, not everyone has much use for smartphones. Take my Uncle Milt: He’s convinced that true happiness lies in a phone that’s just a phone. And he’s pretty sure iPads are, well, evil. Every time I see him, he grumbles about the latest new-fangled technology. Bad enough they invented the fax machine, he says… Read More>>
Always Do A Little Thinking Before Making Every Offer
By Larry Harbolt If I could wave a magic wand and re-live my early real estate investing career from the beginning, I think I would first try to learn more about what seller’s needs and thoughts are. I would also want to better understand the thoughts and logic that run through a seller’s mind when they are motivated and want to sell their house. Read More>>
How to Find Motivated Sellers with Almost No Money
By Kathy Kennebrook You can locate motivated sellers even if you have little or no money to work with. Way back in the early days of my business I used some very inexpensive techniques to locate very motivated sellers, since we only had a limited budget to work with like many people who are just starting out in the real estate business. Read More>>
Got Funding? Get Creative!
By Bill Ham
Funding can be one of the largest barriers to entry in the real estate business. I remember the very first time I walked into a lenders office and tried to discuss funding for my first apartment complex I wanted to buy. My experience (or lack of) was immediately brought to my attention not to mention my complete lack of liquid assets (NO CASH!) Read More>>
Using Your Self-Directed IRA to Invest in Hard-Money Lending – Part 1
By Jim Hitt
When a real estate developer runs into a snag, and needs additional money to complete a project, or he wants a shorter-term loan of, say, six months to six years, he frequently turns to the “hard-money” market. In a nutshell, these are lenders who are looking to get a decent return on their money, with a margin of safety. They usually do this by holding a lien on the property, or on another property the borrower owns, in a practice called “cross-collateralization.” Read More>>
How to Talk to Sellers and Buyers If You’re Just Getting Started in Real Estate
By Courtney Larsen
If someone would have told me one year ago that I would be a full time real estate investor together with my husband and flipping houses for a living, I would have laughed at them! To be totally honest, real estate was never a passion of mine and I hadn’t given it much thought until I read “Rich Dad Poor Dad.” That got the wheels turning and when Matt (the hubby) discovered the niche of real estate we now love best… Wholesaling… Read More>>
Terminating Contracts
By Michael Vazquez
As investors, we all hope and wish that all of our contracts go smoothly. As much as we hate to admit it, the truth is that some things are out of our control. Appraisals, hidden renovation cost, weather and financing are just a few examples of what we have little to no control over. How one handles these obstacles is going to be what differentiates you from all the other real estate investors. Read More>>
Some Easy Real Estate Markets Around Atlanta
By Mark Jackson
Though recent signs have pointed to a lessening of the ongoing housing inventory crunch, many markets in the Atlanta metro area are still experiencing shortages of homes for sale. With consistent reports of inventory overall declining in the metro area, we found some bright spots. Using REIAComps helps to quickly see the number of sales and the best prices to buy year over year. Read More>>
Answers to Your QuickBooks Queries
By Karen Bershad
Q: I need to segment my balance sheet AND income statement into three departments (classes). Which version of QuickBooks can provide me with this capability? A: The lowest edition you can use to have classes on both the balance sheet and the income statement is the QuickBooks Premier. Read More>>
Atlanta REIA Welcomes the Sign Mafia!
By Jeff Nix
If you’ve been around the real estate investing community for a while, you already know the Sign Mafia. They have been serving our community of interest since 2002. They are best known for their bandit signs and property marketing packages. What are bandit signs? They are any signage placed in highly visible spots, designed to generate leads for buyers and sellers. Read More>>
101 Plus Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop
Posted on August 27, 2013 byMotivated Buyer & Seller Leads
Online Workshop
A 4 Part Online Workshop with Dustin Griffin
Starting on September 6th
PLEASE NOTE: This online training is being offered in lieu of the live training that was scheduled for August 31st that had to be postponed. We will be rescheduling the live class in October or November. But in the meanwhile, we highly recommend you attend this Web-Based Training as an alternative. In fact, if you registered for the live class on August 31st, you can attend this web training at no charge and the next live version of this training that we schedule too. Also, if you sign up for this online training, you can attend the next live version of this training as well.
Join us online starting on Friday, September 6th for our Online Workshop where you will learn “101+ Ways to Generate Buyer & Seller Leads” for your real estate investing business. For your convenience, this class is being offered online in 4 parts starting on Sept 6th with the other 3 parts taking place on Sept 13, 20 and 27*. You will be able to watch each of these sessions on your schedule, over and over again as needed by logging into on AtlantaREIA.com’s Member Only Area. If you are not an Atlanta REIA Member, you can Join Atlanta REIA first and attend this Online Workshop at No Charge for a limited time only.
Dustin Griffin is going to teach you many of the 800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Strategies and Techniques he and other successful investors use to generate all the buyer and seller leads they can handle on a low budget and how you can too.
He is going to teach you how you can totally dominate your local competition with little effort and a relatively low budget using new and traditional marketing techniques, a little creativity and the power of the Internet.
*PLEASE NOTE: Non-Members who Join Atlanta REIA for the first time between August 29th and September 9th may attend for FREE! Just be sure to let us know that you want to attend this event at no charge after you join.
Schedule & Agenda*
*The following dates and agenda are subject to change at instructor’s sole discretion.
Sept 6, 2013: Session #1 – Introduction to Marketing
Sept 13, 2013: Session #2 – 101+ Ways to Generate Leads (#1 – #30)
Sept 20, 2013: Session #3 – 101+ Ways to Generate Leads (#31 – #75)
Sept 27, 2013: Session #4 – 101+ Ways to Generate Leads (#76 – #101)
Oct X, 2013: Bonus Session #5 – Even More Ways to Generate Leads
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Get the Real Numbers
Posted on August 18, 2013 by
Join Gordon Catts and John Mangnum at the Atlanta REIA North Meeting on Wednesday, August 21st at 6:30PM located at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D in Buford, GA as they discuss the “Real Numbers” on:
- How much does a paint and carpet rehab really cost?
- What should I set aside for holding cost?
- Do I really need granite in the Kitchen?
- Do I need to replace the toilets in Dekalb County?
- They “harvested” the copper, can we just patch the electrical service.
- The house has been vacant for 3 years, why won’t the power company turn the power back on?
- What hidden things should I look for?
- Does someone really have to look under the house?
- How much does a new roof cost? Do I need one?
- Someone stole the AC Compressor, can I buy a used one?
- Can I put a section 8 tenant in this house?
- Why are there long thin holes in the walls?
- The contractor wants $10,000 up front for “materials”, should I give it to him?
Join us this Wednesday as we discuss the numbers all investors, new and seasoned, should be familiar with.
After the conclusion of the Atlanta REIA North Meeting (after 9:30 PM), we will be reconvening at the Mall of Georgia located at 3250 Woodward Crossing Blvd in Buford, GA for the “Meeting after the Meeting”. We may arrive late if the Atlanta REIA Meeting runs late. So please come eat, drink, network and have fun with us as hang out late into the night! Read More→
