Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take an extremely successful real estate investor out to dinner?  What questions would you ask them?  What would you want to know?  What are you just dying to find out that will make a significant impact on your investing?  What is it that will help you make a lot more $$$$ in 2013?  What difference would that make for you in your business and your life?

Well guess what?  I’ve already arranged this opportunity FOR YOU, and it happens this coming Monday, December 17th at Wild Wild West Subgroup of Atlanta REIA! 

Listen up, folks, this is big– I got not one, not two, but THREE outstanding investors to accept my invitation to share with you on Monday, Dec. 17 at 6:30pm.  Our panel is made up of three of the most highly respected and successful investors right here in Hot’lanta! We have Steve Jordan, Johnna Lodge, and Robert Gilstrap in our line-up, who together have a combined total of more than 70 years of hard-core, in the trenches, real world investing and landlording experience!  They have all agreed to answer your questions, help solve your dilemmas, and offer up their invaluable knowledge and expertise to you this Monday…and the best part is, you get to ask them whatever questions you have on your mind when you join us!

Jump ahead of the crowd! Email me your questions RIGHT NOW to: lesliemathismentor@yahoo.com and I’ll guarantee* that your questions will be answered first, before we take questions from the audience on Monday! I must receive your email no later than 11am on Saturday Dec. 15 for this guarantee to be in effect. So go ahead and send it to me NOW!

You won’t want to miss your chance to spend some quality time with these seasoned professionals for sure.  The definition of ‘wisdom’ is learning from other people’s experiences.  Come get very wise with us, as it’s a rare opportunity indeed to get this kind of success and experience together in one room and have open access to them.  How much time can they cut off your learning curve?  What issues have you had that you’ve been beating your head up against the wall trying to solve, that they can easily solve for you?  If you don’t ask, you won’t know!

Take a break from your holiday shopping to do list and come join us at West Subgroup on Monday at the www.cherokeecattlecompany.com on Canton Road in Marietta.  We’ll have some holiday cheer, great food, and best of all, top notch sharing by these incredible folks.  Give yourself a gift this holiday season and come join us.  You’ll be glad you did!

The Wild Wild West Subgroup of Atlanta REIA meets this coming Monday, Dec. 17 at the Cherokee Cattle Company.  Atlanta REIA Members are FREE, guests are just $5 per person.  See you at the ranch!  The schedule is:

6:30pm—doors open

6:30 to 7:00—networking and order dinner

7:00 to 7:15— official start of program, announcements, deals, haves and wants (bring your flyers!)

7:15 to 9:00–speaker panel

9:00 to10:00—late night networking

10:00pm—restaurant closes

We’ll see you on Monday! 

Leslie Mathis

Are you a sitting duck for creditors and predators and not even aware of it?  How should you hold title to your own home?   What’s the best way to hold title to your rental real estate and other assets?  You may be surprised to learn the answers. We’ve got those answers and more as a special treat for y’all coming up this month at Wild Wild West Subgroup of Atlanta REIA — Dyches Boddiford is appearing live and in person on Monday, August 27th!  Come join the group for a great dinner, wonderful networking, and a real treat to hear this true Expert speak on Trusts.  Dyches knows Trusts inside and out.  He’s so knowledgeable on the subject that attorneys come from across the United States to learn about Trusts and their proper use from him!

Folks, this is how the Super-Wealthy, Movie Stars and Rock Stars keep their assets and holdings off public records.  This is a no BS evening, from the Best of the Best.  Learn how to really protect judgment-proof your assets as you build wealth.  If you’ve already built your wealth and you aren’t using Trusts yet as part of your asset protection and estate plan, you best come learn what you don’t yet know.  Not having this vital information has cost many a wealthy person their entire fortune.  I’m not kidding, this is MUST-KNOW strategy if you want to be protected.  Dyches will be discussing Trusts and asset protection in easy to understand language that breaks it down for the beginning investor, yet includes information even most seasoned investors don’t know.  Read More→

Whether you are a seasoned investor with a lot of houses, or just starting out, you don’t want to miss this chance to hear and meet Dyches Boddiford up close and personal on August 27th at 6:30 PM at the Atlanta REIA West Meeting being held at the Cherokee Cattle Company at 2710 Canton Road in Marietta, GA. Even if your credit is in the toilet and you have no assets, judgment proofing can be useful to you. Learn how to protect yourself from lawsuit predators. Protect yourself from crazy tenants who are looking to sue someone and make a quick buck. Or you rear end someone in traffic, automatically you are at fault… right. What if you never had to be worried about being sued? Well, anyone can sue anybody at any time… but the key is, they can’t collect one thin dime from your personal, family or corporate assets if you follow Dyches’ advice.

I hate to say it, but the awful truth is there are people out there who make their living suing people. So you forgot to fix that loose step on your rental property and someone slips and falls…the nine year old who came over to play with your kids fell off the trampoline… your underage teenage driver has an accident (and the likelihood of that is really high)…these are all potentially very costly occurrences if you aren’t set up with bulletproof asset protection. Take Dyches’ advice and you can sleep like a baby at night knowing that you and your family are protected.

Gurus come and gurus go, yet Dyches Boddiford has been around for a long time. He is going to be around a lot longer, you can count on it. Why? Because Dyches is the REAL deal in real estate, for real! A man of integrity, you can count on what he says. He is not some advertising hype trying to make a quick buck selling courses that don’t work. He truly knows asset protection inside and out. You can take what he says to the bank!

This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss. Bring your friends, partners and family for an informative, nuts and bolts presentation. FREE to Atlanta REIA members, and if you are not a member this is your opportunity to learn from the very best in the country…for the price of a Starbucks coffee (just $5 for non-members). Everyone who attends will get real life information that you can implement into your life situations NOW. Read More→

It’s no secret that there’s no better time in history to buy real estate than right now.  Deals are abundant and many sellers are now open to owner financing.  And there is certainly no shortage of buyers who want to take advantage of lease purchase and owner finance deals in today’s market conditions.  All this sounds very exciting and great opportunity exists for those who know how to work the numbers and structure deals to work in their favor.  Are you among the enterprising elite who know how to do this to create win-win situations for all parties involved?

Maybe you’ve wondered how the bank figures out the monthly payment on your mortgages or other loans.  Are you just getting started in the real estate game, finding words like amortization and PITI have you a little intimidated and confused?  Maybe you’re just now getting back into real estate investing, so some time has passed since you’ve run numbers with your financial calculator.  A good overview and quick refresher course would be great to hone your skills as you get back in the game.

Join us at the Atlanta REIA West Monthly Meeting on Monday, July 23rd at 6:30 PM at the Cherokee Cattle Company in Marietta, GA as we bring “Cash Flow” Tom Boyer for an evening of enlightening education and fun as you learn.  Cash Flow Tom will be sharing in very simple language and easy to follow steps how to use a financial calculator to figure out the numbers you need to know to be successful in this business. 

He’ll run through scenarios and examples of deals and show you how to calculate and run the numbers on them.   He’ll take the time to explain the most common financial buzzwords and what they mean for us as investors.  He’ll also answer questions you have on these and related topics.  You’ll leave this evening feeling confident and equipped to go out and get your piece of this amazing real estate pie!  This is surely one evening you won’t want to miss—see you there!

*Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring their financial calculators and pen and paper in order to get the most out of this evening’s presentation.  We also invite attendees to bring a note to analyze (NOT a property), so you can see exactly what goes in to figuring the numbers on that note.

Heat of the Summer Admission Special — Members, bring up to 2 guests for FREE! Non-members just $5, and you can bring a guest for FREE! As always, admission is FREE with your Atlanta REIA Membership. See you Monday evening! Read More→

It’s that time of year again, when all the property tax bills are mailed out, we receive and open them, and are absolutely shocked to find that the “values” the tax appraiser has on them are way, way higher than what we know we can sell the properties for.  Then we look at the amount owed for the year for property taxes and groan, knowing we need to check to see if our rental rates will cover that amount for the year.  At the very least we know its money out of our pockets and into the government’s, when we did all the work to buy and rehab the property, then locate a (hopefully) decent tenant who will pay the rent payment on time.  It doesn’t seem quite fair to be overtaxed on property that the assessor values too high for today’s market, does it?  What can we do about this though?  I believe we all want to keep as much of our hard-earned money on our property investments as we possibly can, without the government getting more than their fare share, right?

We’ve all heard “You can’t fight City Hall”.  Well, this isn’t exactly all true.  Please join us Monday, April 23rd at 6:30 PM at the Cherokee Cattle Company at 2710 Canton Road, Marietta, GA (map), where we are pleased to host our very special guest speaker, LaGaylia Appleby of Real Estate Works 4 U!  LaGaylia works diligently to lower property taxes for both homeowners and real estate investors across Atlanta.  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.  By working within the laws and guidelines of our government agencies, she’s been able to save me well over $1,000 on just two properties!  I think I’ll go to the beach with that money (I can already hear the waves)!  What will you do with the money you save by joining us Monday evening at the West Meeting of Atlanta REIA?  Read More→

This month on Monday, March 26 at 6:30 PM, at the Atlanta REIA West Subgroup*, we have an incredible opportunity for you to learn the basics of asset protection from one of the country’s foremost experts on the subject!  We are very proud to host Atlanta’s own Attorney Doug Shaddix, founder of Wealth Preservation Solutions, LLC. which specializes in helping clients avoid probate, minimize their tax burden, and maximize their privacy by utilizing trusts and entities that assist you in your asset protection. Attorney Shaddix will be sharing his knowledge and expertise on this very timely and important subject.  Why is this so important? Here’s why…

If you have significant assets of any type, you are a target for a lawsuit.  You need to know more about legally protecting your assets.  Enjoy greater privacy, limits on your personal liability, as well as tax benefits through the use of entities such as LLC’s, corporations and trusts.

In today’s litigious society, you need only one person unhappy with your business, one injured tenant, one disgruntled individual to ruin all that you have worked for by going to a plaintiff’s lawyer to see how they can get to everything you own.  If you are sued, you could lose your business, its equipment and vehicles, your personal automobiles, your home, your rental properties . . . anything that you own in your own name.

Sounds pretty scary, right?  Read More→

Come join us at the West Subgroup on Monday night at 6:30 PM at the Cherokee Cattle Company in Marietta, where Joe Thompson will share with us extremely valuable secrets to success. Here’s a glimpse into the life-changing topics Joe is going to cover:

• to plan or not plan
• where are we today?
• the WHY factor
• the eight step goal setting process
• how do you apply your goal setting?
• tips tools and techniques
• a call to action

Are you new to real estate and want to learn what I consider to be the absolute biggest factor in whether you succeed in this business or not?   Have you been at this real estate thing for a while and just aren’t seeing the results you’d like to have?  Have you thought that there is some key ingredient that you just can’t get ahold of?  What is the difference between people that make mediocre to average success at best, and those few that are very successful at what they do?  There are some very key thoughts and rituals the very successful embrace that the average person either doesn’t know about or won’t do in order to reach high levels of achievement.  Do you know what these key fundamentals are?  Well you should, if you want to be truly successful in whatever endeavors you take on! Read More→

This month at our Atlanta REIA West Meeting on Monday, November 28th at 6:30 PM at the Cherokee Cattle Company, local subgroup leader and real estate expert Leslie Mathis will teach you “How to Use Lease Options to Control and/or Buy Real Estate with Little to No Money Down”, as well as how to rent and sell your properties quickly using this powerful technique.  She’ll share with you how to quickly maximize your cash flow, significantly reduce your maintenance costs and headaches, and reduce the time you spend with management issues on your rental properties.

You’ll definitely want to attend this meeting if you want to hold rental properties long term while increasing your monthly cash flow and reducing all of the maintenance responsibilities and management hassles of a typical landlord. This is possible using a very powerful technique known as a Lease Option, which is a form of creative financing where you and/or the tenant/buyer leases the house and also has an option to buy it.

At this month’s West Subgroup, Leslie will share with you how you can use the Lease Option technique both to buy and sell real estate.  She’ll cover the following: Read More→

You really want to take advantage of this hot Buyer’s market, you know it’s a great time to be involved in real estate, but there’s something stopping you—something BIG.  You just don’t know where to get the money to do your deals!  Well we’re about to fix that-come join us at Atlanta REIA West on Monday, October 24^th at 6:30 PM and discover various ways to get access to CASH to do your deals.  We’ll expose you to some pretty creative and non-conventional methods to fund your deals.  This is one you definitely don’t want to miss, because its common knowledge that the one with the cash gets the best deals!

We have assembled a panel of REAL money sources for you.  This group of lenders and experts has never before been brought together like this!  Meet Jim Hitt with American IRA, a real source of a wealth of information on private money lending.  Meet David Dick, a Hard Money Lender right here in the Atlanta area.  Meet Tim Gibson, a Senior Loan Officer with the #1 Ranked Independent Mortgage Lender for Purchases in the U.S. Meet Jim Gibson, a Reverse Mortgage Specialist hand-picked from the masses to represent this very unique product.  Attend Atlanta REIA West and meet them all, live and in person.   These four people have access to millions of dollars to lend to people just like you.  Read More→

Where are you with your business today?  What are you doing to revitalize your business in today’s market? If what you did to make your business successful and grow to a certain point is not working in today’s market, what are you going to do to change that? Do you know when you need to make a change? Do you know how to fix that?

Going back to basics is necessary when your business is slowing down, the market place changes or you have become complacent.  Learning and using the basic from the start will save you tons of frustration, money, and time.

Whether you are a new business owner or have been around for many years there is always a time to “Get Back to Basics”. On Monday, September 26th at the Atlanta REIA West Meeting, Karen Bershad, The Small Business Advisor, will discuss what it means for a business to “Get Back to Basics” and make the changes needed to grow your business and prosper in today’s market. Read More→