Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Blog
What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA – Week of November 28, 2011
Posted on November 27, 2011 by
The last week of November 2011 is another great week of continuing education and networking at Atlanta REIA. Monday is the Atlanta REIA West Meeting in Marietta on “Lease Options” and the Beginning Investors Group Meeting in Duluth on “Due Diligence”. Tuesday is Workshop #8 of our Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp on “Marketing Your Business with Videos”. Thursday is another Haves & Wants Meeting for Deal Makers. Come learn, network and have fun with us! Read More→
Atlanta REIA Main Meeting & Christmas Party is on December 5, 2011
Posted on November 25, 2011 byGuests Can Attend for $20 at the Door or
RSVP Online Now for $10
with Panelists, Don DeRosa, Jens Beatty & Dustin Griffin
Technology and the Internet have become more pervasive in the real estate investing than ever before for sure… and both are changing constantly, seemingly at the speed of light. As a result, many investors and small businesses don’t know where to start while others struggle to keep up with all the ongoing changes. What they don’t know often hurts them or puts them out of business.
At Atlanta REIA, we don’t want you to go out of business or fall behind the times. In fact, your real estate investing success is our mission and big part of the continuing education we offer. In case you haven’t noticed, Atlanta REIA is a high-tech real estate investing club dedicated to helping you become more a more tech savvy so that you generate more leads and buy and sell more real estate easier than ever before.
To help achieve this goal, on December 5th at 5:30 PM at our Atlanta REIA Main Meeting located at the Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites (map), we are having a very special panel discussion on “Real Estate Technology & Internet Marketing”. Whether you’re a new or seasoned investor, this is going to be a meeting you don’t want to miss. Three real estate technology experts are going to share their secrets on how they use technology to improve and automate their businesses and that of their customers, as well as answering your technology related questions.
Don DeRosa is a seasoned real estate investor and a national real estate trainer and specializes in using his proprietary buying and selling strategies along with the iPad to automate his entire real estate investing business and that of his students.
Jens Beatty is not a real estate investor, but he is a seasoned graphic artist, website developer, WordPress expert and internet marketer who has been doing branding, marketing and website development for aggressive real estate investors for over a decade.
Dustin Griffin is a seasoned real estate investor, internet marketer and long time website developer who specializes in building, dynamic, web-based business management systems for serious real estate investors wanting to automate and run their business on remote control from virtually anywhere while generating leads 24/7.
After the conclusion of the Main Meeting, we will be reconvening at the Tilted Kilt Permimeter located at 1155-B Mount Vernon Highway in Atlanta for our 2011 Christmas Party at 9 PM! Atlanta REIA and our sponsors will providing FREE Appetizers. The Tilted Kilt will also be offering half price appetizers as well as food and drink specials. Come celebrate Christmas and the Holidays with us as we wrap up 2011 and prepare for a prosperous New Year in 2012. There will be plenty of food, networking and FUN!
PLEASE NOTE: Atlanta REIA Members can attend at no charge with a valid membership card. Guests can attend the Main Meeting and Christmas Party this month for $20. Guests can RSVP Online Now for $10 and Save $10! Read More→
How to Use Lease Options to Buy Real Estate with Little to No Money Down
Posted on November 25, 2011 by
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→
On the Horns of a Dilemma: Time Verse Rehab Cost
Posted on November 25, 2011 by
We bought a house at November’s foreclosure auction in Bartow County, Georgia. It needed a shave and haircut – by this I mean it needed paint, carpet, landscaping and some minor repairs.
We partnered with a new investor on this deal. We found the deal and put up the know-how. The new investor put up the purchase money and agreed to oversee the rehab. We placed the new investor in charge of the rehab so she could gain experience.
As the rehab began, the new investor found herself on the horns of a dilemma. This is a dilemma most new investors experience. Do you do the rehab yourself and save money, or do you hire a contractor to do the rehab and pay more? Read More→
What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA – Week of November 21, 2011
Posted on November 19, 2011 byAll Atlanta REIA Meetings and Networking events are POSTPONED this week due to the Thanksgiving Holidays. All meetings will resume after the holiday at their regularly scheduled times. We wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving and look forward to seeing at our Christmas Party on December 5th, if not sooner!
The following meetings are POSTPONED due to the Thanksgiving Holiday:
- Movers & Shakers Meeting
- Notebuyers Group
- Cash Cow Commercial Group
- Haves & Wants
- Evening with an Expert Webcast
Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011 – Workshop 7 Replay
Posted on November 17, 2011 by
On November 17, 2011, Dustin Griffin taught the seventh installment of the Atlanta REIA Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp, a series of live, online webcast workshops that are designed 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. 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. Read More→
What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA – Week of November 14, 2011
Posted on November 13, 2011 byThis week is another great week of training and networking at Atlanta REIA. Tuesday is our What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing Webcast with Rock Shukoor on Video Marketing for Businesses. Wednesday is our Atlanta REIA North Meeting with Jens Beatty on Marketing & Branding Your Business Online and Off. Wednesday we also have our first Spanish Real Estate Investing Group with Michael Vazquez in Spanish! Thursday is the Haves & Wants Meeting followed later that evening by an online Workshop on Search Engine Optimization. Read More→
Rateb Rock Shukoor
Posted on November 13, 2011 by
Rateb “Rock” Shukoor has worked as an investor, consultant, mentor and coach in the field of marketing and real estate for more than 10 years. He frequently speaks at investment conferences and has been interviewed and consulted by other real estate investors and promoters. The secretes to his success has been his deep knowledge and understanding of marketing. He has been using and teaching investors and entrepreneurs the secretes of video, mobile and direct response marketing. Read More→
Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011 – Workshop 6 Replay
Posted on November 11, 2011 byOn November 10, 2011, Dustin Griffin taught the sixth installment of the Atlanta REIA Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp, a series of live, online webcast workshops that are designed 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. 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. Read More→
Can You Make Money Buying Foreclosures?
Posted on November 11, 2011 by
This is a delicate topic to write about. On one hand, as a real estate investor and teacher, I want folks interested in real estate investing to know what’s possible at foreclosure auctions. On the other hand, I’m concerned about looking like a pudknocker who’s profiting from someone’s misfortune. In the end, you get to decide whether I’m a teacher or a pudknocker.
Last week’s column was about how we prepare for a foreclosure auction. This week, we’ll look at whether there’s money to be made at foreclosure auctions by reviewing our last three deals. Read More→
Preparing for a Foreclosure Auction
Posted on November 11, 2011 by
Have you ever wondered how the foreclosure process works in Georgia? Kim and I started bidding at foreclosure auctions back in 1995. From then to now, we’ve bought a lot of foreclosure properties. More importantly, we’ve learned which properties NOT to buy!
In Georgia, the foreclosure auction is held on the first Tuesday of each month in front of each county’s courthouse. Georgia Code says the auction is to be held “before the courthouse doors.” Since there are usually steps leading up to the courthouse doors, we use the term “bidding on the steps.” Read More→
Landlords, Should You Hire a Property Manager?
Posted on November 11, 2011 by
A local real estate investor, who owns more than 20 single-family rental homes, came up to the ranch earlier today. We sat by the fire and discussed whether he should hire a property management company or continue managing his rentals himself.
He loves his rental properties. More precisely, he loves the mailbox money his rentals provide him and his family. Problem is, he’s in his fifties and is tired of managing the properties himself. He wants the freedom to come and go as he pleases.
For the record, this desire for freedom strikes many landlords as they enter their fifties and sixties. It also strikes folks who own rental property and get transferred to another state. What do they do – sell their rental, or keep it and let someone else manage it? Read More→
