Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Blog

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 Unfortunately most credit repair programs use that same old outdated technology that doesn’t work.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→

We’ve been busy since starting our new Atlanta REIA group back in mid June 2010. 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.

We Have 3 New Atlanta REIA Meetings

You now have 3 ways opportunities to stay plugged in to our Atlanta REIA  group for all your real estate information, training, networking and community service needs!

1. Atlanta REIA Main Meeting is held on the 1st Monday of the month at 5:30 PM at the Doubletree Hotel in Roswell, GA.
2. Atlanta REIA North Meeting is held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 6:00 PM at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D, in Buford, GA.
3. Atlanta REIA South Meeting is held on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM at Ryan’s Restaurant in Stockbridge, GA.

Atlanta REIA South Meets Thurs, Aug 11th @ 6:30PM

At our August 12th Atlanta REIA South Monthly Meeting in Stockbridge, Dustin Griffin (a Local Investor, Trainer, Website Developer, Internet Marketer and President of Atlanta REIA) will be teaching you “How to Establish a Strong Internet Presence Quickly, So You Can Dominate Your Competition Online in Weeks, Not Years!”

Atlanta REIA North Meets Tues, Aug 17th @ 6:00PM

In case you could not make our South Meeting, you will get a 2nd opportunity to hear Dustin Griffin talk about how you can easily start to dominate your local competition online in a few short weeks rather than years by using simple, easy-to-implement internet marketing techniques! Come learn how to leverage of the power of the Internet so you can get more leads and more deeds and stay a step ahead of your competition. There will be Late Nite Networking at the Mall of Georgia Taco Mac following the meeting at 8:30 PM.

Come Network with Other Real Estate Professionals!

We now have 3 opportunities for you to come network with us and other Atlanta area real estate professionals. Come eat, drink, network and have fun with us!

1. Late Nite Networking Main Meetup is held on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 8:00 PM at the Cheyenne Grill located at 2391 Peachtree Rd NE Atlanta, GA 30305.
2. Late Nite Networking Atlanta REIA Meetup is held on the 1st Monday of the month at 8:30 PM in the lounge of the Doubletree Hotel in Roswell GA following the Atlanta REIA Main Meeting.
3. Late Nite Networking North Meetup is held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 8:30 PM at the Mall of Georgia Taco Mac following the Atlanta REIA North Meeting.

Our New AtlantaREIA.com Website is Online

You might not have noticed since it is so new, but AtlantaREIA.com has been online for almost two weeks now. We’ve been working hard to lay a solid online foundation from which to build our new group. For now, AtlantaREIA.com serves as our official website to see our scheduled meetings, seminars, workshops and networking events as well as our volunteer community service workdays with the Fuller Center of Atlanta. Soon we will be adding our new webinar schedule, podcasts as well as our new, private, Member Only, REIA Manager Membership Site.

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We’ve added an Email Updates subscription box to the upper right-hand corner of most pages on the AtlantaREIA.com website. Here you can join our mailing list to receive our Atlanta REIA Newsletter and email updates and stay connected and update on what’s going on at Atlanta REIA. Join Today so you don’t miss a thing!

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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. You can be a friend and follow us online at the following sites:

• Atlanta REIA on Facebook
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• Atlanta REIA on Meetup
• Atlanta REIA Google Profile
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• Atlanta REIA on Flickr
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With the rapid growth of the Internet over the past 10 years and millions and millions of sites competing for the coveted top 10 listings on popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others, a good website alone is no longer adequate to compete for your fair share of Internet leads. If you want to dominate your local competition online by dominating the top 10 search engine listings for your targeted key word searches, you must do MORE than everyone else and do it BETTER! Read More→

Mark Galey is the President of the Fuller Center for Housing of Greater Atlanta, a faith-driven and Christ-centered, non-profit organization that promotes collaborative and innovative partnerships with individuals, organizations, corporations, and religious groups of all faiths in an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for all people in need in the Greater Atlanta area. Read More→