Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Blog

We’ve been working diligently to expand our new Atlanta REIA group we started in June 2010 and greatly appreciate all of your ongoing support. This post is designed to keep you updated on what we’ve been up to lately. Be sure to check to Join Our Email List so we can email you all of our latest updates and event notifications.

Our Atlanta REIA Main Monthly Meeting is TONIGHT!

TONIGHT, Monday, September 6th, 2010 at 5:30 PM is our next Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Meeting at the Doubletree Hotel of Roswell GA. Yes, it’s the Labor Day holiday for all of you with J.O.B.s, but for the rest of us, this is just another day to get together with our fellow real estate professionals and celebrate the fact that we don’t have jobs thanks to the financial Independence that real estate investing has given us. So if you have a job, come out and join us at 5:30 PM and celebrate what could be your “Last” Labor Day if you choose to make it so. Then you can spend the rest of the year working with your new real estate investor association to achieve the financial freedom you want and deserve so you can “lose your job” and join the ranks of the “self unemployed”! More Info…

The Atlanta Fuller Center Legacy Build 2010 Project Dedication Ceremony Is Sept 11th

September 11th 2010 will be remembered as a Day of Celebration in Atlanta’s Lakewood Community when six families walk into homes that were once abandoned or in dire need of major renovation. This work is part of the Atlanta Fuller Center for Housing’s five year commitment to revitalization and stabilization of Lakewood. The Fuller Center is dedicating 6 Homes in the Lakewood Heights Community on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM at 10 Gould Street, Atlanta, GA. Come out and celebrate this achievement with us and see what great things we can accomplish by working together. Read More…

Volunteers Wanted for Project Lakewood

We are looking for volunteers this Saturday and every other Saturday to come out and help us eliminate poverty and sub-standard housing for local area residents. We meet at 9:00 AM at 10 Gould Street in Lakewood (Atlanta, GA) and usually work until 3:30 PM. Snacks and beverages are provided. Join us and you will get hand-on experience as we build, renovate and repair homes for some of Atlanta’s neediest citizens and families. Thanks in advance for your participation! See our Event Calendar for a schedule of Saturday Volunteer Workdays.

Atlanta REIA Has 4 New Monthly Webcasts Scheduled

At Atlanta REIA, a big part of what we want to do is offer our members free or affordable, ongoing training opportunities. That’s why we are launching our new monthly Atlanta REIA Webcast Training Series. Each month we will have a variety of webinars that you can attend online at NO CHARGE whether you’re currently a member or not. Premium members will be able to watch replays of these webcasts 24/7 in our Members Only section of our site. Read More…

• What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing – On the 1st Thursday of each month at 7PM ET, we will be bringing in local and national real estate industry experts to tell us what’s hot, what’s not and how to make money investing in real estate right now! Whether you are a new or seasoned investor, this webcast training series is designed to expose you to a wide variety of traditional and cutting edge real estate investing techniques that you can use to make substantial amounts of money in today’s real estate market. This is a NO SALES, TRAINING ONLY webcast. Register for the Webcast Now!
• Real Estate Business Opportunities – On the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7PM ET, we will be bringing in local and national real estate industry experts with a product, service, training or business opportunity to present to you for your information and consideration. This webcast is designed to expose you to a variety of real estate investing opportunities to help you dramatically expand your real estate business. Even though this is a SALES webcast, 95% must be TRAINING and only 5% SELLING. Register for the Webcast Now!
• An Evening with a Real Estate Expert – On the 4th Thursday of the each month at 7PM ET, we will be bringing in local and national real estate industry experts for an interactive exchange of ideas, information and questions and answers on a wide variety of real estate investing topics. Whether you are new to investing or have been doing it for years, this webcast training series is designed to expose you to a wide variety of real estate industry experts and give you an opportunity to hear what they do and ask them questions and get straight answers. This is a NO SALES, TRAINING ONLY webcast. Register for the Webcast Now!
• Foreclosures Gone Wild – On the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7PM ET, short sale expert Kimberlee Frank will spend an hour answering your questions on investing in short sales and helping save people from foreclosure. If you are thinking about investing in short sales, are currently investing in short sales, or perhaps quit doing short sales in the past due to the negotiating hassles, this is a webcast you don’t want to miss. Register Now for the Webcast!

This Month’s Business Opportunity Webcast

Are you ready for an “Extreme Search Engine Makeover” for your websites? Would you like to learn how to “Totally Dominate the Major Search Engines and Your Local Competition Online in the Next 90 Days?” Starting on Sept 20th, 2010, Dustin Griffin, along with many other real estate investors and entrepreneurs in Atlanta, Orlando and scattered throughout the USA will be embarking on a 90 Day Extreme Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Makeover in efforts to get their web sites, pages and profiles dominating the first page of major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and other quicker than they ever thought possible! To learn how you can too, Register for Upcoming Webcast on Sept 16th at 7PM ET.

Local and National Real Estate Experts Wanted

As Atlanta REIA works to expand it’s real estate training agenda, we are looking for active local and national real estate experts to teach topics within there area of expertise to our members at our meetings, seminars, workshops and webcasts. If your interested in volunteering to teach, please contact us here.

Atlanta REIA North Meeting Set for Sept 21st

Atlanta REIA North is a subchapter of the Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance that meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D, Buford, Georgia in North Gwinnett County just a few miles from the Mall of Georgia. This meeting will focus on a wide variety of cutting edge real estate investing strategies with a special emphasis on Internet Marketing and Technology for the modern day “High Tech Investor”. The cost is $5.00 at the door for non-members. Read More…

Atlanta REIA South Meeting Canceled for Sept Only

Marc Fordham, leader of the Atlanta REIA South group has canceled the September meeting to spend his wedding anniversary with his lovely wife. If you were planning on attending this meeting, please attend our Atlanta REIA Main Meeting on Sept 6th or our Atlanta REIA North Meeting on Sept 21st instead.

Our Most Recent AtlantaREIA.com Poll

We asked “What is the most important thing you expect from your REIA group?” Possible answers were:

• marketing opportunities
• volunteer opportunities
• community outreach programs
• affordable real estate education
• networking opportunities
• national real estate gurus

Take the survey on the right side of the AtlantaREIA.com home page and make your voice heard!

Stay Connected With Atlanta REIA By Email

Be sure to join our Atlanta REIA Email List to receive our email updates so you can stay informed on what’s going on at Atlanta REIA throughout the month so you don’t miss a thing. Also, be sure to subscribe to our Atlanta REIA Feedburner Blog Feed so you can receive all of our blog updates automatically via email when we update our Atlanta REIA Website.

Network With Us In Person At Late Nite Networking

We have at least 3 opportunities for you to come out and network with us and other Atlanta area real estate professionals each month at Late Nite Networking not to mention our other Atlanta REIA Meetings. Please come out and eat, drink, network and have fun with us! Read More…

Network With Us Online

Not only do we like to network in person at our Atlanta REIA and Late Nite Networking Meetups, but we like to socialize via social networking online too! Follow us and we’ll follow you back so you can expand your social network. Read More…

Comment On Our Blog Posts for SEO

If you will read our Atlanta REIA blogs and articles and post thoughtful, non-spammy comments, we’ll reward you with followable backlinks to your website which will help improve your  search engine optimization (SEO). You should make it a regular habit to read our blogs and post your comments for all of our readers to see. You can start by commenting on this post below right now!

Monday, September 1st is Late Nite Networking at 8:00 PM at the Cheyenne Grill in the Peachtree Battle Shopping Center on Peachtree Street in Atlanta just south of Lindberg Dr. I’ve been told that the Management at the Cheyenne Grill (Mike Gross and his partners) have renovated the room we normally meet in since our last meeting, so we are all looking forward to seeing the new changes. We will be giving away several prices this month that you must be present to win. Be sure to bring your business cards to you can get in on the drawing and have plenty of cards for sharing and networking.

Also, we now have 3 Late Nite Networking Events you need to know about and attend: Read More→

Dr. Stefan Kasian is a Professor of Psychology, published author, and international public speaker.

After a brief stint on Wall Street, he has directed several companies to buy, sell, and manage residential and commercial real estate investments. He has published dozens of articles and several books, including Auction Fever: Winning Strategies to Buy, Sell and Rent Real Estate which he co-authored with New York Times best-selling author Dr. Dolf de Roos, and Dream homes: When dreams seem to predict real estate sales, in which he interviewed ten individuals who experienced prophetic dreams that led to their subsequent acquisition of real estate. Read More→

Dear Real Estate Investor and Respected Client,

Let’s face facts. Credit repair doesn’t work anymore. I’m sure you have tried or at least heard of Lexington Law Firm. The letter writing paper mill that churns out letter after letter for you. They mail it to the credit bureaus in hopes some minimum wage employee reading it will help remove that late or charge off for you.

That may have worked years ago. But bureaus have tightened up. And wised up. Unfortunately most credit repair programs use that same old outdated technology that doesn’t work. Believe me, I’ve tried them. I have the same clients you do, that need help getting financed, and until they get financed, that’s a $17,000.00 profit check I don’t have in my hands. And it’s usually credit problems holding them back.

So if you have poor credit or know someone who does, this spells bad news for you. It means your situation isn’t about to improve any time soon. Until now. Read More→

Atlanta REIA North is a new subchapter of the Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance, an Atlanta Georgia Real Estate Investors Association, that meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D, Buford, Georgia in North Gwinnett County just a few miles from the Mall of Georgia. This meeting is strategically located to serve Buford, Dacula, Lawrenceville, Suwanee, Sugar Hill, Cumming, Duluth, Flowery Branch, Gainesville and other areas.

Like the Main Atlanta REIA Monthly Meeting, this subchapter will be led by Dustin Griffin and Gordon Catts and will focus on a wide variety of cutting edge real estate investing strategies with a special emphasis on Internet Marketing and Technology for the modern day “High Tech Investor”.

Our first Atlanta REIA North Monthly Meeting, TOMORROW, Tuesday, August 17th at 6:00 PM, Dustin will be teaching you “How to Establish a Strong Search Engine Presence Quickly, So You Can Dominate Your Competition Online in Weeks, Not Years!” Can your customers easily find your business on Google, Yahoo and Bing when they search for you or your services? Are you listed on the first page of the search engines for popular search phrases? If not, come find out how you can be as we kick off our Atlanta REIA North Meeting. There is a $5.00 cover charge at the door to help support our new group.

Immediately after the Atlanta REIA North Monthly Meeting, we will reconvene at 8:30 PM at the Mall of Georgia Taco Mac for the “meeting after the meeting”, also known as Late Nite Networking. We hope you will come out and eat, drink, network and have fun with us! Read More→

Mark Galey and Shane Persaud attended our Atlanta REIA South Meeting last night in Stockbridge, GA and announced that they have opened a new Fuller Center for Housing in Henry County. As you know, Atlanta REIA is a proud sponsor of the Fuller Center of Atlanta. With the opening of this new Fuller Center in McDonough, we also look forward to working with them to help eliminate substandard housing for needy families by rebuilding, renovating and repairing their homes. We hope you will get involved and lend a hand too! See our Events Calendar for the Fuller Center Saturday Volunteer Workdays. For additional information, see the Fuller Center of Atlanta Website or the Fuller Center of Henry County Website. Read More→