Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Blog
Atlanta REIA Saturday in the Park Summer Concert Series
Posted on May 29, 2011 by
Atlanta REIA invites you and your family to join us Saturday in the Park for the Roswell Riverside Sounds outdoor concert series that take place on the first Saturday of each month all summer long. We will be rockin’ on the Chattahoochee at Riverside Park located at 575 Riverside Road in Roswell, GA. We meet in the park starting at 5:30 PM and the concert starts at 7 PM and ends at 9 PM. We will be setting up at the back right-hand side of the park (see aerial photo) as you enter the concert area from the parking lot.
You can bring the entire family including the family pet, as well as coolers, food and your favorite adult beverages. There is no agenda other than just hanging out with friends and family, listening to some good tunes and having a great time! There will also be food and beverages available at the park concession stand if you don’t bring your own. In case of inclement weather, the event and concert will be cancelled. Read More→
This month’s Evening with a Real Estate Expert Webcast was with one of the original, founding father’s of today’s short sale purchasing techniques, Mr. Pre-Foreclosure, Jeff Kaller! Jeff spent an hour with us talking about his 17+ years investing in real estate and how he and his team have negotiated over 1 billion dollars in short sale debt over the past 10 years and collectively saved over a million people from foreclosure. He talked about how the short sale industry has changed over the years, what’s working now and what the future may hold. He also talked about a few things that every investor must have in order to succeed in today’s market place. Jeff also talked about what he will be teaching at our Atlanta REIA Main Meeting on June 6th as well as his upcoming 2 day “Marketing Extravaganza” Boot Camp on June 17th & 18th. Don’t miss your chance to learn from the master of the short sale… Watch the webcast now! Read More→
Have You Made Over $90,000 So Far This Year?
Posted on May 27, 2011 by
You say flipping and real estate investing are dead?! Well, you need to meet Edith and Wanda! These two ladies have already made over $90,000 in the first four months of 2011— just by flipping houses! Yeah, baby!
I sat down for a quick interview with these two amazing women:
How did you get started investing together? “We met at work and, though we each invested in real estate on our own, we decided to do some deals together for the sheer joy of it. We combined our money, knowledge and experience and really started hammering out the deals.”
How do you find your deals? Read More→
Are Your Roots Planted Firmly?
Posted on May 25, 2011 by
David, a seasoned real estate investor, has been stuck in a rut and wanted to talk over his situation. Like many folks, he has yet to get back on firm ground since the real estate bubble popped in 2006.
When I asked him questions regarding how many sellers he talked to each week or how many real estate investor meetings he attended each month, he answered, “What’s the point? The real estate market is dead!”
And there was David’s problem. When the market collapsed, he essentially climbed into bed, pulled the covers over his head and decided not to come out again until the 2005 real estate market returned. Read More→
What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA – Week of May 23, 2011
Posted on May 22, 2011 byAtlanta REIA has several special interest group meetings this week such as the Note Buying Group and Cash Cow Commercial Group. We also have the Atlanta REIA West Meeting and the Haves & Wants Meeting. Also be sure to check out our webcast this week with Short Sale Expert, Jeff Kaller. Read More→
Asset Protection with Attorney Doug Shaddix at Atlanta REIA West
Posted on May 21, 2011 by
Atlanta REIA is pleased to announce that Attorney Doug Shaddix will be our special guest speaker at our Atlanta REIA West Meeting on Monday, May23rd at 6:30 PM at the Marietta Fish Market located at 3185 Canton Road in Marietta, GA. Many of you recall that Doug was on our Attorney Panel at our Atlanta REIA Main Meeting. Doug is back this month to talk all about asset protection, estate planning and buying with entities such as trusts, LLCs, corporations and more!
If you have significant assets of any type, you are a target for a lawsuit! You need to know more about asset protection. 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. Read More→
Webcast Replay: Using a WordPress Website For Your Internet Marketing
Posted on May 16, 2011 by
Dustin Griffin and website designer and internet marketing expert, Jens Beatty, did a special webcast to show you how you can use a 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 can 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.
Watch the webcast replay and let Dustin and Jens 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. We’ll tell you how to download LeadTheme 2.0 for WordPress just for watching the replay. Read More→
Business Member Orientation Workshop & Webcast – April 2011
Posted on May 16, 2011 byIn April 2011, Dustin Griffin, Atlanta REIA Executive Director, and Jeff Nix, Director of Business Membership, conducted our first Atlanta REIA Business Member Orientation Workshop and Webcast 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 the replay below!
Click one of the links below for more information on Atlanta REIA Business Memberships starting as low as $150 per year!
Webcast with Jens Beatty on LeadTheme 2.0 for WordPress
Posted on May 15, 2011 by
Our next What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing Webcast is on Tuesday, May 17th at 7PM ET with website designer and internet marketing expert, Jens Beatty, on his WordPress LeadTheme 2.0. Over the past two or three years, more and more real estate investors and other small businesses have began using WordPress because of it’s flexibility, ease of use and its ability to achieve great search engine rankings without a lot of technical know how.
Because of this fast growing interest in WordPress, Jens has created a fantastic WordPress theme that focuses on something that most WordPress themes do not… generating leads. His free WordPress theme is called LeadTheme, it is totally free, and it was designed specifically to make it super quick and easy to get your website online and generating leads.
On the webcast, in addition to giving you a copy of LeadTheme 2.0, Jens is going to show us how to use LeadTheme to… Read More→
Jens Beatty
Posted on May 15, 2011 byJens Beatty has been designing and building websites since the dawn of the internet. He has created a multitude of websites for all types of businesses over the years. He specializes in designing sites for high conversion and generating leads online. The majority of his work over the past 7 or more years has been focused on generating real estate leads.
In addition to running his own design and marketing company, Jens Beatty Media Productions, he currently works as a senior designer and front end web developer for a public company that runs a major network of real estate websites. In the past few years he has played a major role in generating millions upon millions of leads and dollars in revenue for his employers and clients. Read More→
Haves & Wants Speed Marketing Session: May 2, 2011
Posted on May 15, 2011 by
This was the Haves and Wants Speed Marketing Session that we recorded live at our May 2, 2011 Atlanta REIA Meeting. This is a new 30 minute session at our Atlanta REIA Main Monthly Meeting that starts at 6:00 PM on the 1st Monday of the month and is hosted by Joe Thompson. The purpose of this marketing session is to help facilitate deals by giving our members the opportunity to quickly market things they HAVE and no longer want and to find things they WANT but don’t yet have. Thanks to all those of you who participated. And special thanks to Joe for hosting the session and to Alan McDonald for recording the session and improving the quality of this video each and every month. Read More→
What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA – Week of May 16, 2011
Posted on May 15, 2011 byOur most recent Atlanta REIA membership drive was a big success! Response was been overwhelming. All of us at Atlanta REIA want to personally thank all of you who joined us over the past week. We look forward to working with you to help take your real estate investing business to the next level and beyond over the next year. We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming meeting or networking event soon. See some of our events below that are coming up this week and see our events calendar for a more complete list. Thanks again! Read More→
