The Atlanta REIA Beginning Investors Group (BIG) is an educational and networking special interest group for new investors who are just getting started in real estate investing as well as “new again” real estate investors who’ve taken a few years off and are looking to get back in the game. BIG is hosted by Dustin Griffin, Executive Director of Atlanta REIA, who will be bringing in local and national real estate experts to teach new investors how to survive and thrive in our ever changing economy and real estate market. The entire purpose of this group is to help new investors get their first deal and help new again investors get their next deal.

The Beginning Investors Group meets on the 3rd Monday of each month from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM at Hudson Grille located at 6317 Roswell Rd NE, Sandy Springs, GA (map) just outside the Perimeter. BIG is FREE for Atlanta REIA Members. Guests and Non-Members can pay $20.00 at the door or RSVP Online for $15.00. This is a “dinner” group and we kindly request that you buy dinner and/or drinks since the Hudson Grille allows us to meet there. There will be lots of learning and lots of networking. Bring your deals and your haves, wants and needs to the meeting for discussion.

Dustin Griffin is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, website developer, internet marketing enthusiast and a husband and proud father of two. Dustin is the Executive Director of the Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance (Atlanta REIA), the Tampa Real Estate Investors Alliance (Tampa REIA), the Charlotte Real Estate Investors Alliance (Charlotte REIA) and enjoys helping others achieve their personal and financial goals through real estate investing.

Atlanta REIA Members get 24/7/365 access to all of our Webcast Replays. Members can Login and watch any of our Webcast Replays below.

What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing with Ron LeGrand
with Dustin Griffin and Ron LeGrand on Dec 21, 2010
Dustin interviewed his friend and mentor, the “Guru of all Real Estate Gurus,” Ron LeGrand. Ron went over the 4 basic areas of real estate investing and talked about how to be profitable in all 4. Ron also gave attendees some educational downloads and talked about his January visit to Atlanta REIA as well as his upcoming workshop in Atlanta. Watch Replay→

Evening with a Real Estate Expert: David Lindahl
with Dustin Griffin and David Lindahl on Dec 1, 2010
Dustin was able to catch up with David while he was in Huntsville, Alabama servicing some of his apartment buildings located there. Dave talked about how he got started, how he amassed his 7400 apartment units and what he is up to today. He also talked about visiting Atlanta REIA in December. Watch Replay→

What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing with Scott Bowen
with Jeff Nix and Scott Bowen on Nov 16, 2010
Jeff Nix talked with his good friend, local businessman and real estate investor Scott Bowen on some money saving rehab & repair tips and techniques. They discussed mold, surface restoration, roof restoration and tips on all those items. Watch Replay→

An Evening with a Real Estate Expert: Dyches Boddiford
with Jeff Nix and Dyches Boddiford on Oct 28, 2010
Dyches talked about his real world, creative real estate investing and financing strategies and answered many frequently asked questions about creative investing and deal funding from Jeff and our live audience. If don’t know Dyches, this webcast replay is an excellent way for you to get to know him. Watch Replay→

Repairing Your Credit and Your Life
with Dustin Griffin and Rick Harper on Oct 21, 2010
Credit repair expert Rick Harper of Summit Credit Group spoke to our members and guests how to repair your credit and your life by removing negative items such as inquiries, late payments, tax liens and even bankruptcy and foreclosure. Watch Replay→

What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing: Atlanta REIA is Hot!
with Dustin Griffin on Oct 19, 2010
Dustin talked about why Atlanta REIA is such a HOT new organization and why you should be a member. He talked about Atlanta REIA’s mission, monthly meetings, educational programs, networking events, monthly webcast series, community outreach programs and more. Watch Replay→

Evening with a Real Estate Expert: Attorney John Maurer
with Dustin Griffin and John Maurer on Sep 22, 2010
John talked about the Safe Act (the Georgia Residential Mortgage Act) and how it affects real estate investors wanting to negotiate short sales as well as offering owner financing to their buyers. He talked about the good news and the bad news you need to know. Watch Replay→

How to Totally Dominate Your Local Competition Online
with Dustin Griffin on Sept 16, 2010
Dustin showed us how to totally dominate the first few pages of Google and other major search engines quicker than we ever thought possible using simple, easy-to-implement Guerrilla Internet Marketing techniques. Watch Replay→

On the 1st Tuesday of each month at 7PM ET, Dustin Griffin is going to teach you how to take your real estate investing business to a whole new level using the latest, cutting edge real estate tools and techniques. You will learn how to use technology, automation and and delegation so you you can work smarter, not harder and earn far more money by working less. We like to say “The Technology makes us Super and the Training makes us Smart!” Put them together and that makes us all Super Smart! Register Now for the Webcast!

Atlanta REIA has a variety of real estate workshops and seminars each month for Atlanta real estate investors and other real estate professionals. Below are some of the workshops that we recorded and have made available to Atlanta REIA Members who paid to attend these live training events. If you have paid to attend these training events, be sure to login to AtlantaREIA.com and then click any of the links below to watch the Workshop Replays.

Nothing But Paperwork: How To Properly Complete Real Estate Investor Contracts & Paperwork Workshop Replay
with Don Derosa on June 3, 2016
Do real estate contracts and paperwork scare the daylights out of you? Do you wish you had a better understanding of how to fill out all the paperwork that comes with being a real estate investor for each and every deal you do? We have the solution to your problem! In this workshop we recorded on June 3,2016, you will learn how to be a paper pushing real estate pro. You will learn how to fill out all the paperwork that you use on a daily basis to become a real estate investor and more importantly, a “transaction engineer”. Watch Workshop Replay→

How To Jump Start Your High Tech Homebuying Business Workshop Replay
with Don Derosa on April 30, 2016
Most people only use their smartphones and tablets to talk, text, play games, and watch videos. But did you know that you can also use your mobile devices to successfully operate and automate most of your real estate investing business so you can work less and earn much more? Don DeRosa will teach you about all the tips, tools and technology you need to take your business to the next level and beyond in this workshop we recorded on April 30, 2016. Watch Workshop Replay→

How To Jump Start Your Wholesaling Business Workshop Replay
with Don Derosa on April 29, 2016
Wholesaling houses is one of the quickest ways to start cashing checks in real estate without using any of your own money or credit. There is no one better to teach you how to get started in wholesaling than Don DeRosa. Whether you want to be a full-time investor or are just getting started part-time, let Don show you how to start wholesaling profitably today in this workshop we recorded on April 29, 2016. Watch Workshop Replay→

How to Jump Start Your Creative Real Estate Investing Business Workshop Replay
with Don Derosa on April 28, 2016
One of the easiest ways to get into real estate is by taking over existing debt. Don DeRosa is an expert at doing just that. There are six simple steps to get you on your way to becoming an expert as well and Don DeRosa will teach you what you need to know during this workshop replay we recorded on April 28, 2016. Watch Workshop Replay→

Creative Deal Structuring Workshop 2016 Replay
with Don Derosa on March 26, 2016
When you come across a lead, do you know how to look at the information, analyze it and determine what to do with it from there? There is nothing worse than losing a deal because you didn’t know multiple ways to structure the deal and how to present multiple offers to the seller. Would you like to learn multiple ways of how to structure each deal you are considering buying? This is exactly what Don DeRosa will teach you how to do at the Creative Deal Structuring Workshop we recorded on March 26, 2016. Watch Workshop Replay→

101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop – Session #4 Replay
with Dustin Griffin on September 27, 2013
Dustin 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. Watch Workshop Replay→

101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop – Session #3 Replay

with Dustin Griffin on September 20, 2013
Dustin conducted Session #3 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 #3, Dustin covered the ways #31 through #75 to generate motivated buyer and seller leads. Watch Workshop Replay→

101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop – Session #2 Replay

with Dustin Griffin on September 13, 2013
Dustin 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. Watch Workshop Replay→

101+ Ways to Generate Motivated Buyer & Seller Leads Online Workshop – Session #1 Replay
with Dustin Griffin on September 6, 2013
In the first session of this four part Guerilla Marketing Online Workshop, 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. Watch Workshop 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→

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 enant/buyer leads and much more. Watch Workshop 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→

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→

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→

Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #8
with Dustin Griffin on November 29, 2011
In Workshop #8 on Marketing with Online Videos, Dustin taught attendees how to use simple, easy to create, videos to promote your business online through video sites, social networking sites, blogging, email marketing, search engine optimization, webcasts and more. Watch Workshop Replay→

Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #7
with Dustin Griffin on November 17, 2011
In Workshop #7 on Marketing with Online Articles and Ads, Dustin taught attendees how to use popular, high PR article and ad sites to post keyword rich articles to improve search engine results and drive more traffic back to their websites and blogs for better lead conversion and improved SEO. Watch Workshop Replay→

Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #6
with Dustin Griffin on November 10, 2011
In Workshop #6 on Using Social Networking for Business, Dustin taught attendees how to use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and others to generate more leads and help your site rank higher and faster on the major search engines. Watch Workshop Replay→

High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop (Part 5)
with Dustin Griffin on November 1, 2011
In Part 5 of this workshop, Dustin gave attendees a general overview of the private Super Smart Buy Site Back Office Website and Lead Management System and covered many of the basic and advanced features, benefits and available upgrades. Watch Workshop Replay→

Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #5
with Dustin Griffin on October 25, 2011
In Workshop #5, Dustin taught attendees how to optimize their Super Smart Website, WordPress Website and Blog or any other 3rd party website using “On-Site” and “Off-Site” Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to help their sites rank higher and faster on the major search engines. Watch Workshop Replay→

Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #4
with Dustin Griffin on October 13, 2011
In Workshop #4, “Setting Up a WordPress Website & Blog (Part 2)”, Dustin showed attendees how to use their newly installed WordPress Dashboard CMS to setup, customize and configure their WordPress Website and Blog to promote their business online. Watch Workshop Replay→

Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #3
with Dustin Griffin on October 11, 2011
In Workshop #3, “Setting Up a WordPress Website & Blog (Part 1)”, Dustin gave attendees a good introduction to blogging and talked about how and why a WordPress.org standalone blog is great for Internet Marketing strategies such as Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media Marketing (SMM), Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Electronic Mail Marketing (EMM). Dustin also covered how to install WordPress and more. Watch Workshop Replay→

High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop (Part 4)
with Dustin Griffin on October 4, 2011
In Part 4 of this workshop, Dustin talked about how you can use both traditional, offline marketing techniques along with online, internet marketing strategies to generate all the buyer and seller leads you can handle by driving people to your website and VM system 24/7/365. Watch Workshop Replay→

Back to Basics Workshop for Real Estate Entrepreneurs
with Karen Bershad on October 1, 2011
This workshop was designed to give you a detailed overview of setting up a business, different types of business entities, what your business looks like by department, accounting issues, putting systems in place, team building and much more. Watch Workshop Replay→

Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #2
with Dustin Griffin on September 29, 2011
In Workshop #2, “Getting Started – Setting Up Your Online Accounts & Profiles”, Dustin shows you how to setup all of the internet profiles and accounts you will be using to implement your new internet marketing strategies (SEO, SEM, SMM & EMM) to get your web sites, pages and profiles to the top of major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing fast! Watch Workshop Replay→

Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp – Workshop #1
with Dustin Griffin on September 27, 2011
On September 27, 2011, Dustin Griffin kicked off the Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011 to teach you how to establish a strong Internet presence, get your websites, pages and profiles to the top of the major search engines quickly and to generate all the leads you can handle using the power of the Internet. Workshop #1 was “Getting Ready – An Introduction to Internet Marketing”. Watch Workshop Replay→

High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop (Part 3)
with Dustin Griffin on September 6, 2011
The purpose of this Workshop & Webcast Series is to teach you everything you want or need to know about your Super Smart Websites so you can become a true power user and a more effective and automated real estate investor. In Part 3 of this workshop, Dustin gave an in depth overview of the Super Smart Buy and Sell Websites that prospects see when they visit the public portion of your websites. Watch Workshop Replay→

High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop (Part 2)
with Dustin Griffin on August 2, 2011
The purpose of this Workshop & Webcast Series is to teach you everything you want or need to know about your Super Smart Websites so you can become a true power user and a more effective and automated real estate investor. In this second installment, Dustin covered how to setup and use your domain specific emails and check them with SuperSmartDomains.com webmail or Microsoft Outlook. Watch Workshop Replay→

Ipad Workshop Replay (Part 2)
with Don Derosa on July 6, 2011
Don DeRosa spent 4 more hours showing us setup, configure and use many simple iPad apps that will totally change the way you do business… saving you countless hours of time, and giving you access to everything you need to run your real estate investing business, wherever you are. Watch Workshop Replay→

High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop (Part 1)
with Dustin Griffin on July 5, 2011
The purpose of this Workshop & Webcast Series is to teach you everything you want or need to know about your Super Smart Websites so you can become a true power user and a more effective and automated real estate investor. In this first installment, Dustin introduced you to the Super Smart Websites and the problems they solve as well as how to choose, register and setup your domains to be used with your websites and emails. Watch Workshop Replay→

Ipad Workshop Replay (Part 1)
with Don Derosa on June 22, 2011
Don DeRosa spent 4 hours showing us setup, configure and use many simple iPad apps that will totally change the way you do business… saving you countless hours of time, and giving you access to everything you need to run your real estate investing business, wherever you are. Watch Workshop Replay→

New Member Orientation Workshop for June 2011
with Dustin Griffin on June 21, 2011
Dustin conducted this New Member Orientation Workshop to introduce new members to Atlanta REIA and to show them how they can get actively involved in our organization and get the most benefit out of their membership. Watch Workshop Replay→

Business Member Orientation Workshop for June 2011
with Dustin Griffin on June 16, 2011
Dustin Griffin hosted this Atlanta REIA Business Member Orientation Workshop and Webcast to introduce new Business Members to Atlanta REIA and explain in detail how they can get involved with Atlanta REIA for maximum benefit to their business and our entire membership. Watch Workshop Replay→

WordPress Pre-Workshop Webcast (Part 2)
with Dustin Griffin on June 3, 2011
This was a private webcast for everyone attending the WordPress Workshop on June 4th & 5th. The purpose of this webcast was to help attendees get a head start on the WordPress website setup process that often takes 24 hours to complete. Watch Workshop Replay→

WordPress Pre-Workshop Webcast (Part 1)
with Dustin Griffin on June 2, 2011
This was a private webcast for everyone attending the WordPress Workshop on June 4th & 5th. The purpose of this webcast was to help attendees get a head start on the WordPress website setup process that often takes 24 hours to complete. Watch Workshop Replay→

Business Member Orientation Workshop for April 2011
with Dustin Griffin and Jeff Nix on April 28, 2011
We had our first Atlanta REIA Business Member Orientation Workshop and Webcast in April to better introduce our Business Members to Atlanta REIA and explain in detail how you can plug your business into Atlanta REIA for maximum benefit for your business and our membership. Watch Workshop Replay→

How to Appeal Your Property Taxes & Beat the County
with Dustin Griffin & Lenny Ogburn on March 23, 2011
On this special workshop and webcast, Lenny taught us step-by-step how to appeal and lower our property taxes which could save us hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars each year on our own home as well as our investment properties helping us dramatically increase our monthly cash flow. Watch Workshop Replay→

90 Day Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop – Week 9
with Dustin Griffin on January 10, 2011
Dustin did a wrap up session on everything we’ve covered so far and how it all works together to help get your websites, profiles and pages to the top of the major search engines fast. Dustin also talked about how to track and tweak your results and what to do next now that the training is complete. Watch Workshop Replay→

90 Day Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop – Week 8
with Dustin Griffin on December 20, 2010
Dustin introduced attendees to Social Bookmarking and RSS Feeds and showed them how to set them up, customize them and use them for Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization purposes. Watch Workshop Replay→

90 Day Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop – Week 7
with Dustin Griffin on December 13, 2010
Dustin taught attendees how to setup, customize and use online article and advertisement sites such as GoArticles, ArticlesBase, BackPage, PRLog and others for Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization purposes. Watch Workshop Replay→

90 Day Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop – Week 6
with Dustin Griffin on November 29, 2010
Dustin taught attendees how to setup, customize and use online video sites such as Youtube and Yahoo Videos for Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization purposes. Watch Workshop Replay→

90 Day Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop – Week 5
with Dustin Griffin on November 8, 2010
Dustin introduced attendees to social networking, not only for personal use, but more importantly for business purposes. Dustin taught attendees how to setup, customize and use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter for Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization purposes. Watch Workshop Replay→

90 Day Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop – Week 4
with Dustin Griffin on October 18, 2010
Dustin introduced attendees to the concept of blogging and taught them how to setup, customize and use a simple WordPress.com blog for Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization purposes. Watch Workshop Replay→

90 Day Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop – Week 3
with Dustin Griffin on October 11, 2010
Dustin taught attendees how to optimize their websites by using “on site” techniques such as key words and phrases, keyword density, titles, descriptions, optimized HTML tags, graphics, videos, RSS feeds, back links, social networking, blogs and more for maximum SEO performance. Watch Workshop Replay→

90 Day Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop – Week 2
with Dustin Griffin on September 27, 2010
Dustin taught attendees how to setup all of the internet profiles and accounts they will be using to implement their new Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) strategies to get their web sites, pages and profiles to the top of major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing fast! Watch Workshop Replay→

90 Day Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop – Week 1
with Dustin Griffin on September 20, 2010
Starting in September 2010, Dustin Griffin started the 90 Day Extreme Internet Marketing Makeover Workshop using Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing techniques to teach attendees how to get their web sites, pages and profiles to dominate the first page of major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and other quicker than they ever thought possible! Watch Workshop Replay→

The Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance conducts Business Member Orientation (BMO) Workshops & Webcasts from time to time throughout the year to introduce our Business Members to our organization. The purpose of these workshops and webcasts are to show Business Members how they can “plug in” to Atlanta REIA for maximum benefit to our Business Members and to our general membership. We encourage you to attend the Business Member Orientation Workshops & Webcasts live and in person as they become available and to watch our replays below as well.

• Business Member Orientation for June 2011 with Dustin Griffin
• Business Member Orientation for April 2011 with Dustin Griffin & Jeff Nix