Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Blog
FREE Short Sale Workshop with Bob Massey for Agents & Investors – Oct 22, 2011
Posted on October 14, 2011 by
Short Sale Expert, Bob Massey is back at Atlanta REIA teaching a FREE workshop for Atlanta REIA Members on Saturday, October 22nd from 9AM to 1PM at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D in Buford, Georgia. This will be a two part workshop. The first will be on the foreclosure process in GA, the law and how it affects the agent, the seller and the investor. Bob will cover:
- Foreclosure process in Georgia
- Loan modification
- Deeds In Lieu of Foreclosure
- Tax implications of forgiven deficiency
- Deficiency and foreclosure
- Future Credit Implications of foreclosure, bankruptcy, DIL, Short Sale with FHA, Fannie, Freddie and USDA
- Bankruptcy
- Relationship between seller and bank
- Agent’s responsibility to the seller
- Agent’s responsibility to the bank
- The bank’s process to evaluate an offer
- Making offers on Short Sales
- How to support your offer to get it accepted
- BPO process
- Is it a breach of fiduciary responsibility for agent to negotiate short sale for seller?
The second half of the workshop will be to discuss Read More→
Jim Hitt
Posted on October 14, 2011 by
For 30+ years, Jim Hitt has been committed to all aspects of investing, using self -directed IRAs for his own investments since 1982.
Jim’s forte is the financing and acquisition of real estate, private offerings, mortgage lending, business’s, joint ventures, partnerships and limited liability companies using creative techniques. He has developed, owned, and managed everything from single family homes to multi-unit commercial properties and million dollar business’s. Read More→
Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011 – Workshop 4 Replay
Posted on October 13, 2011 by
On October 13, 2011, in Workshop #4 of the Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011, Dustin Griffin covered “Setting Up a WordPress Website and Blog (Part 2)”. The purpose of this class is to teach you how to start using a WordPress Website and Blog to promote your business online. In 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. He also showed attendees how to purchase a domain name, a hosting account and how to install WordPress on the server. In Part #2, Dustin showed attendees how to use the WordPress Dashboard CMS to setup, customize and configure their WordPress Website and Blog. In Part 2 of this 2 part WordPress Workshop, Dustin covered the following material… Read More→
Webcast with Jens Beatty on LeadTheme 2.5 for WordPress
Posted on October 12, 2011 by
Our next What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing Webcast is on Tuesday, October 18th at 7PM ET with website designer and internet marketing expert, Jens Beatty, on his WordPress LeadTheme 2.5. As you know, many real estate investors and small business owners use WordPress to power their websites and blogs because of it’s flexibility, ease of use and its ability to achieve great search engine rankings without a lot of technical know how. In fact, if you haven’t noticed by now, AtlantaREIA.com is a customized WordPress Website and Blog.
Because of the ever increasing interest in WordPress, Jens has created a fantastic WordPress theme that focuses on something that most WordPress themes do not… generating leads. His WordPress theme is called LeadTheme and it was designed specifically to make it super quick and easy to get your website online and generating leads. LeadTheme 2.5 is also designed to work with popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google +.
Join us on the webcast and download LeadTheme 2.5 for FREE! Read More→
Webcast Replay: Training Opportunity Webcast with Bob Massey on Short Sales
Posted on October 12, 2011 byHave you ever had the problem of coming across a great short sale deal but it’s listed with an agent who refuses to work with you because you’re an “investor”? Ever had an agent tell you that flipping short sales is illegal? Would you like to know what to say to those agents to get them to work with you and not against you? On October 6th, 2011, Bob Massey did a Training Opportunity Webcast with Atlanta REIA to teach us some simple ways to overcome the issues that often separate agents and real estate investors and prevent us forming profitable, working relationships. Bob addressed many of the common issues we must face when working with agents and also talked about how to make some huge profits investing in short sales by working with agents. Just so you know, Bob is one of the foremost educators in the country when it comes to teaching both real estate agents and real estate investors to work together for their mutual benefit and profit and has been doing so for years. Read More→
Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011 – Workshop 3 Replay
Posted on October 11, 2011 byOn October 11, 2011, in Workshop #3 of the Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011, Dustin Griffin covered “Setting Up a WordPress Website and Blog (Part 1)”. The purpose of this class is to teach you how to start using a WordPress Website and Blog to promote your business online. 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). In Part 1 of this 2 part WordPress Workshop, Dustin covered the following material… Read More→
Are Option Agreements Legal?
Posted on October 10, 2011 by
In a column I wrote two weeks ago, I made the point that Options are the most powerful and underused documents in real estate. After the column ran, I got a call from a long-time realtor. He had some questions about Option Agreements and offered to buy me a cup of coffee. I said yes because, as you may know, I love free coffee… and a doughnut!
The first question he asked was, “Are Options legal?” I answered, “Yep, they’re very legal. In fact, did you know that most Georgia Association of Realtors’ Purchase and Sale Agreements (aka The GAR forms) begin life as Option Agreements?” Read More→
WordPress Website & Blogging Webcast Workshop – Oct 11 & 13, 2011
Posted on October 10, 2011 by
On Tuesday, October 11th and Thursday, October 13th at 7PM, we are doing our first WordPress Website and Blogging Online Webcast Workshop as part of our Atlanta REIA Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011. Dustin Griffin will help you setup a WordPress.org Website and Blog in class from start to finish. You will also learn how to use your new WordPress Website and Blog to help manage and automate your Internet Marketing Strategy from any virtually any web-ready device such as a PC, notebook, netbook, iPad, Droid, Smart Phone, etc.
Whether you run a real estate investing business or any type of other business, a WordPress Website and Blog will definitely help improve your credibility, marketing efforts, online presence and lead generation. The best news is, you don’t have to be a techie to use WordPress, but it doesn’t hurt either. We are teaching our Atlanta REIA members and guests how they too can be “High Tech Home Buyers & Sellers” and utilize modern technology to run their businesses more effectively online and offline.
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is part of the Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011. If you are not already attending the entire boot camp, you can register for the WordPress Workshop below as a standalone workshop.
WordPress Website & Blogging
Webcast Workshop
October 11th & 13th at 7PM via GoToWebinar
Come join us and let Dustin show you how other successful investors and businesses are using WordPress to dominate the search engines, automate their Internet Marketing and generate all the leads they can handle online. Here is some of what we will be covering and doing in class. Read More→
What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA – Week of October 10, 2011
Posted on October 10, 2011 by
This week, the Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp resumes with the WordPress Workshop on Tuesday and Thursday. On Wednesday, special guest and Atlanta REIA Business Member, Monte Smith of Entrust Georgia is speaking at the Creative Financing Group. Next Monday, Bob Massey will be speaking at the Movers & Shakers Lunch Meeting. Read More→
Come Learn How To Use An IRA To Invest In Real Estate at the Creative Financing Group Meeting
Posted on October 9, 2011 by
This month at the Creative Financing Group (CFG) meeting on Wednesday, October 12th at 6:30 PM at Champps in Alpharetta, Self-Directed IRA expert, Monte Smith of Entrust Georgia, will teach you how to use IRA’s to invest in real estate.
At this month’s Creative Financing Group meeting, Monte will teach you:
- How to use your IRA to buy real estate
- How to use your IRA to buy rental houses
- How to use your IRA to lend money on real estate deals
- How to use your IRA to buy real estate Options for HUGE PROFITS
- And much, much more… Read More→
Maximize Your Assets & Minimize Losses Through Better Property Management
Posted on October 5, 2011 by
In these tough economic times, we need to maximize our assets and minimize our losses. That is why great property management is essential. When we spend the time to screen a tenant properly on the phone, we are truly saving money. Our need to be more efficient and effective at answering the calls from potential tenants allows us to be able to spend time with our family. When you are already spread thin by work, and family your ability to create a system to screen, meet and decide if that applicant should move into your property is vital. When a bad tenant moves into your property the cost can be exorbitant. Read More→
Skilled Property Managers Hold the Keys to Profits in Today’s Rental Market
Posted on October 5, 2011 by
Not since the Great Depression have banks been forced to foreclose on so many properties and dispose of them on the open market. To compound the problem, lending institutions have increased their lending requirements to a level that has slowed the real estate recovery, further lowering housing prices.
Opportunity abounds for investors as the need for residential rental property continue to increase as more home owners are displaced and others choose to rent rather than buy. Savvy Investors who choose to Buy and Hold can look forward to low purchase prices and strong rental incomes; however all can be lost through mismanagement due to inexperience or lack of knowledge of laws governing property management. Read More→
