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Learn to Create Great Wealth with Single Family Homes at BIG on April 18, 2016
Posted on April 13, 2016 byTransforming $60K to $1M!
with Jim Hitt on April 18th
What separates successful investors from struggling investors? The ability to see the true potential of a deal is the key to success. This month at the Beginning Investors Group (BIG) on Monday, April 18th at 6:30PM at the Hudson Grille located at 6317 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs, GA, Jim Hitt will showcase a real life case study in which the very basic purchase of a $60K single family home led to a progression of deals ultimately resulting in a $1M profit in a tax advantaged environment! Anyone can do this with knowledge and the proper due diligence. Jim talks about the “chess strategy” of real estate in which investors must think about how every move they make impacts their next move.
Atlanta REIA Members Please RSVP on Meetup.com
At the Meeting Jim will be discussing…
- Critical negotiation skills with a focus on knowing your goals and staying focused so you don’t get lost in the heat of the battle
- The art of negotiating owner financing and no money down purchases
- How to overcome obstacles and generate positive cash flow
- Creative loan structuring that can put cash in your pocket at closing
- Ways to find real estate deals well below market value
- Old fashioned techniques to recognize potential for real estate deals
- Techniques to increase cash flow and reduce taxes
- Private offerings
- 1031 exchanges
- Lease backs
- Active listening techniques that will win you more deals
- Debt reduction strategies
- And so much more…
Jim Hitt maximizes profits by blending his two passions, self-directed IRA investing and real estate investing, to create great tax advantaged wealth. Jim is the CEO and Founder of American IRA, a national Self-Directed IRA services provider. Jim has also been a licensed real estate broker in the state of California for over 40 years and an active real estate investor who has participated in over 6,000 real estate transactions with a current portfolio of over 50 rental properties. Jim has participated in the acquisition and development of single family homes, multifamily homes, and commercial buildings. Throughout Jim’s investing career, he has employed various creative financing strategies including private lending, owner financing, hard money lending, and more.
Join us on Monday, April 18th at 6:30PM at the Hudson Grille located at 6317 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs, GA as Jim shares case studies on strategies that can help every real estate investor take their investing and profits to the next level.
Atlanta REIA Members Please RSVP on Meetup.com
After the conclusion of the Atlanta REIA BIG Meeting (after 9:00PM), we will be hanging out at the Hudson Grille for Late Nite Networking also known as the “Meeting After the Meeting”. Stick around, have some dessert, a drink, network and have fun with like-minded investors and real estate professionals as we hang out late into the night!
*Please Note: Meeting agenda is subject to change.
BIG is an educational and networking special interest group, hosted by Dustin Griffin for new investors who are just getting started in real estate investing as well as “new again” real estate investors who’ve taken a few years off and are looking to start investing again. The entire purpose of this group is to educate and inspire new investors working on their “first deal” and help new again investors get their “next deal”. Please join us on the 3rd Monday of each month at Hudson Grille located at 6317 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs.
Onsite Renovation Group Meets on April 19th at NOON
Posted on April 12, 2016 byHands-On Learning “ Site” at Your Real Renovation Projects
Tuesday, April 19th at NOON
1358 Binder Place, Atlanta, GA
Come join your host Lynn Overall with his special guest Robert Mulcahy of Angel Oak for the Onsite Renovation Group on Tuesday, April 19th ay NOON at a property located at 1358 Binder Place in Atlanta, GA Robert is responsible for creating specialty landlord financing and renovation lending products for distressed home purchase financing. He is also an active real estate investor like other Atlanta REIA members. Robert purchases several properties in and around the Atlanta Metro Area.
The property we are visiting at 1358 Binder Place in Atlanta is a classic example of how he utilizes his skill to identify sub-markets within the city which are on the verge of turing around. This property is scheduled to be scraped and built in the next few days. This is your opportunity to discuss with him how to identify these markets and learn more about his buying strategies.
The Atlanta REIA Onsite Renovation Group (ORG), hosted by Lynn Overall, is an educational and networking group that focuses on the acquisition, renovation and retail resale (fix and flip) of single family residential homes. The purpose of this group is to allow both new and experienced rehabbers and investors to meet, network and share knowledge and experience with “hands on” access to real property. The Onsite Renovation Group meets on the 3rd Tuesday each month at NOON at an active renovation site, build site or rental property which will vary from month to month. As always, there is no charge for Atlanta REIA members to attend. Guests pay just $20 at the door.
Atlanta REIA Members Attend for FREE and Guests for $20 at the door.
Guests can join Atlanta REIA for Only $100/year and Attend for FREE!
Atlanta REIA Members & Guests, Please RSVP on Meetup.com
How to Create a Successful Multi-Family Real Estate Business at EPIC with Bill Ham
Posted on April 12, 2016 bywith Bill Ham
April 19th, 6PM, Flat Creek Country Club
100 Flat Creek Rd, Peachtree City, GA 30290
Come Join Us at our New Time & Location with FREE Appetizers!
The mission of the EPIC group is to provide a platform for success in Real Estate Investing through Education, Properties, Income and a Community of like minded investors. A place to Network and Learn the pathway to success in real estate investing through different monthly topics presented by experts inside the real estate industry. This month at the EPIC Group, our special guest speaker will be local real estate investing expert Bill Ham. Bill will be teaching you how you can start and build a hugely successful buy and hold business with multifamily income producing properties. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 19th at 6PM at the Flat Creek Country Club located at 100 Flat Creek Rd in Peachtree City, GA. This will be a great opportunity for you to network with other like-minded investors and to learn about getting your foot in the door to big money with multifamily units.
Atlanta REIA Members & Guests, Please RSVP on Meetup.com
Are you looking for monthly cash flow and passive income? The multifamily business is exactly where it’s at! Bill is going to show you how to create a lasting business that will produce monthly cash flow by holding multifamily real estate in your portfolio. In order to do so successfully, you need to use proven systems as well as someone to show you how to get started with those systems. Multifamily investing is one of the best ways to create long term revenue in your life. Bill is here to help you get started on the right track to creating that cash flow. Bill will share how he started his career with a single duplex and in just 10 years and has created a portfolio of 600 multi-family/single family units.
At the meeting you will learn about…
- How to get started in multifamily real estate
- How to find good deals
- How to get those good deals funded
- Proven multifamily investing systems
- 3 weekly tasks you must do to be successful in real estate
- The truth behind the real estate business with No Sales Pitches!
- And so much more!
Come on out on Tuesday, April 19th and the 3rd Tuesday of Each Month. You are sure to meet some great individuals and make lasting connections that will help propel your business in the right direction. We look forward to seeing you there!
*Please Note: EPIC Meeting agenda is subject to change.
Atlanta REIA Members & Guests, Please RSVP on Meetup.com
The EPIC group is hosted by successful real estate entrepreneurs Chris & Donna Littleton. They’ve designed this group to build a fellowship of like minded investors seeking long term wealth through real estate. They share a passion for seeking out sound real estate investment opportunities and making them profitable. Chris and Donna are the owners of Solutions Realty Network, Inc., a property management brokerage that has served greater Atlanta for over 12 years. The team at Solutions Realty Network prides itself on being the experts in the property management field and proves it by successfully managing over 400 rental properties in 18 metro Atlanta counties. Visit www.SRNhomes.com for more information. The meeting takes place on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at the Flat Creek Country Club located at 100 Flat Creek Rd in Peachtree City, GA.
The Peachtree City EPIC Group’s Goals.
- To take you from Wall Street to Main Street and your local neighborhood streets for better investment opportunities.
- To show how Buy and Hold Real Estate is providing some of the greatest opportunities for investments, creating Net Worth and Passive income. And we hope to share the knowledge for your success!
How to Get Started Investing in Real Estate at the Beginning Investors Group Online
Posted on April 11, 2016 byHow to Get Started Investing in Real Estate
with Don DeRosa
April 27th, 2016 at 7PM ET on GoToWebinar
Don DeRosa will help us kick off our first meeting of the Beginning Investors Group Online (BIGO) on Wednesday, April 27th at 7:00 PM. Don is a full-time active real estate investor, mentor and trainer who specializes in all types of real estate investing such as wholesaling, creative financing pretty house deals, rehabbing and retailing, rentals, short sales, foreclosures, new construction and much more.
Join Don as he teaches you the quickest and easiest way to get started in the real estate investing business with limited time and funds.
This Month, No Charge to Attend for
Members or Guests!
We look forward to seeing you on the Beginning Investors Group Online!
Pretty House Webinar Replay with Don DeRosa
Posted on April 11, 2016 byHow to Make a Fortune Buying Pretty Houses with No Money or Credit
Watch the Webinar Replay
with Don DeRosa
Don DeRosa is a part time real estate investor trainer and mentor and full-time real estate investor who actively buys, sells and holds properties each month for fun, profit and long term cash flow. One of Don’s favorite purchase strategies is to buy houses “Subject-To” the seller’s existing financing on the home instead of having to go to a bank or a hard money lender for funding.
Using this strategy allows Don to buy multiple properties fast, without coming up with all the purchase funds on the front end. This is the perfect purchase strategy for active investors who what to buy, sell and hold pretty houses without having to use their own cash or credit.
Watch this Webinar Replay we recorded live with Don DeRosa on April 6th, 2016 where he shared many of his subject-to strategies, tools and techniques he uses every day to create winning deals for himself as well as his buyers and sellers. Watch the Webinar Replay Now! Read More→
Let’s Make a Deal Meets on April 11, 2016
Posted on April 11, 2016 by
The “Let’s Make A Deal” group is a subgroup of the Atlanta REIA led by Lynn Overall and Don DeRosa that now meets on the 2nd Monday of each month at 6PM at the Hudson Grille located at 6317 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs, GA. The focus of the group is to take new investors through the entire process of repurposing distressed home. Each home is purchased by the group and is completed as a Joint Venture. An experienced rehab investor then leads the group through the rehab process. Risk of loss is mitigated through the use of a consistent system for rehabbing homes, and through the use of experienced contractors. Our goal is to purchase a new property at each of our meetings.
During the meeting, we will identify a property, hard or private money lender, and a contractor. We will finance the deal using a participating money lender, all of whom attend the meetings. Do not leave your checkbooks at home because we buy properties at each meeting.
The sponsors of the “Let’s Make A Deal” group have successfully repurposed homes in California, Texas, Georgia, and Florida. If you are a new investor looking to be a participant in a home rehab project, then this is definitely the group for you. Please keep in mind that everyone who attends “Let’s Make A Deal” is required to participate. The minimum size of the investment will be determined by the purchase price of the home presented at the meeting.
Come on out and check out the meeting. We would love to have you join our team! We are looking forward to learning and earning with you!
Atlanta REIA Members & Guests, Please RSVP on Meetup.com
Webinar: How to Make a Flipping Fortune Wholesaling Crappy Houses
Posted on April 11, 2016 byApril 13th, 2016 at 7PM ET on GoToWebinar
How to Make a Flipping Fortune Wholesaling Crappy Houses
A Live Webinar with Don DeRosa
Register @ Webinar2.AtlantaREIA.com
No Charge to Attend for Members or Guests!
Don DeRosa is a part time real estate investor trainer and mentor and full-time real estate investor who actively buys, sells and holds properties each month for fun, profit and long term cash flow.
The topic of our next webinar is “Wholesaling Houses” which is the business of buying houses in need of major repairs at really low prices and selling them to other “fix and flip” or “buy and hold” investors at wholesale prices. In other words, finding bargains for bargain hunters.
Wholesaling is a great strategy for making quick cash with very low risk and without using any of your own cash, income or credit. Because of this, wholesaling real estate is one of the quickest and easiest ways to get started investing in real estate because anyone can do it with a little training and effort.
If you want to learn more about Wholesaling, join us on Wednesday, April 13th at 7:00 PM ET for a Training Webinar where Don is going to teach you Wholesale Strategies you need to succeed and take you step-by-step through the entire wholesale process.
No Charge to Attend for Members or Guests!
By the end of the webinar, you’ll know…
- How to recognize a wholesale deal when you see one
- How to evaluate a deal and make sure it is something you can quickly wholesale
- How to estimate the After Repair Value (ARV) of a home
- How to estimate the repair costs
- How to determine the maximum price you’re willing to pay for a house
- How to negotiate the deal with your seller
- How to put the house under contract
- And finally, how to wholesale the house to another investor buyer
- All this and much more!
So please Register Now and Join Us on the Webinar on Wednesday, April 13th at 7:00 PM ET and learn how to find and flip all the run down houses you want without having your own cash or credit at risk!
There’s more… if this is not enough, Don will be back with us on Friday, April 29th for a Full Day Online Workshop called “How to Jump Start your Wholesaling Business” to teach you everything you need to get your Wholesaling Business up and running fast. Once you are armed with Don’s training and the tools, you will be able to make more money than you ever thought possible!
We look forward to seeing you on the webinar!
All Inclusive Marketing Group Meets on April 13, 2016
Posted on April 11, 2016 byBecome a Marketing Machine and the “Go To” Person in Your Market for Doing Deals
with Rateb “Rock” Shukoor
Apr 13th, 7:00PM, Hudson Grille, Sandy Springs, GA
Our next All Inclusive Marketing (AIM) Group Meeting is Wednesday, April 13th at 7:00PM at the Hudson Grille located at 6317 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs.
Do you have all the leads you could ever need?
Do you want to lean how to find deals that others are looking for and cannot find?
Marketing has been one of my strong suites and I am very proud of the results I have produced over the years from most of my campaigns. It is time to showcase my guerrilla marketing skills and show you how to find at least one deal a day.
Yes, I said ONE deal a day. I will show you 7 ways to find 7 deals in 7 days, and find all the deals you need as well.
I will be sharing with you everything you need to know about how to find deals quickly and with using very little money, if any at all. If you have a phone and have access to a computer, you are in business.
I will explain the whole process: the small but vital details, where to find deals, how to find the sellers and how to stay focused in order to find one deal a day.
Here are the items I will share with you:
- Where to find deals
- How to sell them in a flash
- What market to choose
- Where to get the list of prospects
- What kind of properties to focus on
- Where to get the money from for these deals (Only if you need them)
- How to partner with me to use a list of over 6,000 cash buyers
- And much, much more
This is a must attend event! We will meet at our usual location at the Hudson Grille at 7:00PM and be there until 9:00PM and then hang out and have our Late Nite Networking. I look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
Atlanta REIA Members Please RSVP on Meetup.com
*Please Note: AIM Meeting agenda is subject to change.
After the conclusion of our All Inclusive Marketing Meeting, we will be hanging out at the Hudson Grille for “Late Nite Networking” to socialize and build stronger bonds. So come and join us for the AIM Meeting and be prepared to stay late and network and have fun with like minded real estate investors, marketers and other professionals late into the evening!
The Atlanta REIA All Inclusive Marketing (AIM) Group is a networking and educational meeting led by Rock Shukoor for like-minded real estate investors and small business owners who LOVE MARKETING and are interested in improving their business and taking it to the next level through creative marketing techniques.
The All Inclusive Marketing group is for folks who want to want to get together, learn and discuss marketing challenges, strategies and opportunities. Although many of the examples we cover at this meeting are geared towards real estate investors, the techniques and strategies learned at our meetings can be applied to any business.
We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM at the Hudson Grille located at 6317 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs. We have our private meeting room and after the meeting we hang out for Late Nite Networking. AIM is FREE for Atlanta REIA Members. Guests and Non-Members can pay $20.00 at the door or RSVP Online for $15.00.
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Haves & Wants Meets on April 14, 2016
Posted on April 11, 2016 byHosted by Joe Thompson
Haves and Wants is a weekly investor networking and deal making lunch meeting hosted by Joe Thompson and held every Thursday at 5 Seasons Brewing at the Prado from 1:30 PM till approximately 3:00 PM. This group has been meeting for over 6 years and is all about networking, sharing information, doing deals and making money right now. Be sure to bring lots of your business cards and flyers and be prepared to promote your business and/or your haves, wants and deals with our group. If you are a real estate player or want to be, this is one weekly meeting you don’t want to miss!
5 Seasons Brewing is located at 5600 Roswell Rd (map) inside the Perimeter at the “Prado” in Sandy Springs. The all natural, organic food at the 5 Seasons is excellent and the hand-crafted beer is even better! Come out and eat, drink, network and share your deals with us! There is no charge to attend this meeting for Atlanta REIA Members or guests. Please come early and stay late. We would love to have you!
Atlanta REIA Members & Guests, Please RSVP on Meetup.com
The Profit Newsletter April 2016 Edition
Posted on April 4, 2016 by
The April 2016 Edition of The Profit Newsletter is now available for download. There are 58 pages this month full of upcoming meetings, workshops, educational articles and other valuable information for your real estate investing pleasure and success. Download it and check it out!
The Profit is Atlanta REIA’s digital, interactive newsletter for serious real estate investors delivered as an Adobe PDF file to read on your PC, Mac, Smart Phone, iPad or other mobile ready devices. Many of the articles and ads in The Profit contain many hyperlinks you can click to get more information online! The high res version of The Profit is “print ready” for those who want to print the newsletter on their home or business printer.
Be sure to Subscribe to The Profit by Email or Subscribe to The Profit by Text so you don’t miss a single issue.
Scott’s 10K a Month Executive Lease-Purchase Secrets
Posted on April 4, 2016 by
It has been said that, “the devil is in the details. We, at “Little Pink Houses of America” have developed a needed and profitable business model that can be practiced in your own community where you can build a $10,000/month income. We call it our Executive Lease-Purchase program.
We discovered that only 20% of a given market has the ability to qualify for a house purchase from a traditional lender. Yet, home ownership is still seen as desirable by a majority of people in the United States today. There is a big gap in the market between those that want a home and those who can qualify for a mortgage. There are many reasons for this: credit problems, another house to sell, moving etc.
We’ve discovered a very lucrative niche in the market that helps those who can’t qualify today, but through our program of matching buyers who need some time to qualify and sellers who have not been able sell their home, a workable solution through our executive Lease-Purchase program. When we match buyers who can’t qualify today but will in the next 1 year to 3 year period with our help and sellers who can’t sell in a traditional way right now, we receive a $10,000 plus fee. Here’s how you can too! Read More→
Rising Rents and Millennial Buyers Bode Well for Real Estate IRA Owners in 2016
Posted on April 4, 2016 byOur clients who focus on real estate IRAs are encountering a more mature point in the investment cycle. We’ve had a nice run up over the last several years. Indeed, if you had some cash to play with in 2009 and 2010 and a bit of patience, it was tough to go wrong with real estate IRA strategies. The real estate market was attracting a boatload of institutional money and all the real estate investor had to do was step in front of it.
Now there’s still institutional money coming in, but investors have to pick their spots a little more, and getting your valuations right is going to have increasing importance going forward.
Meanwhile, the permabulls at the National Association of REALTORS® has also released their 2016 trends piece. Naturally, they think it’s always time to buy, so take their advice with a grain of salt.
Here are the NAR’s predictions for 2016, plus a few thoughts from us on how they may play out for our clients and those considering a real estate strategy in their retirement accounts. Read More→
