Alan Cowgill is the owner of Colby Properties, LLC. and President of Integrity Home Buyers, Inc. Alan is a full-time Real Estate Investor, investing in single family and small multi-family properties in Springfield, Ohio.

Since 1995, Alan has bought and sold over 150 investment properties. He uses Private Lenders, not banks, to fund his real estate purchases. By doing this, he has created his own private bank of more than $2,000,000 to fund his deals. Alan looks for “Win–Win–Win” situations, where the seller, the lender, and the eventual homeowner can all “Win”. He is not a Realtor, but a Private Investor. Read More→

One of the youngest members ever to be inducted into the Real Estate Hall of Fame, Marc Hrisko has been labeled a “rising star” and one of America’s most dynamic wealth and entrepreneur strategists.

A top speaker for Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad national seminars and Dean Graziosi’s The Insiders Edge Events, Marc Hrisko’s speeches and wealth-building seminars have been enjoyed by thousands of entrepreneurs in virtually every major city in the United States. In his role as a business coach, Marc has been responsible for helping launch the careers of some of the nation’s top entrepreneurs.

Prior to his professional speaking and executive coaching career, Marc served 10 proud years as a firefighter and medic. Marc’s commitment to public service stems from his family’s military legacy. Marc’s father, a retired Navy Master Chief, is now an employee of Marc Hrisko International. Read More→

John Holman has been buying and selling residential real estate in the Atlanta Market for 11 years. As a franchisee of HomeVestors of America, Inc (the “We Buy Ugly Houses” company), John has consistently placed in the top ranks of the 250 offices in the U.S, earning him wide recognition including: President of the Atlanta Ad Council, Chairman of the Franchise Advisory Council, Franchise of the year as well as many individual awards for sustained performance in buying and selling houses . Since 2001, John has purchased and sold over 400 houses. Holman has had an active involvement with Habitat for Humanity for nearly 10 years helping to build houses in many economically- challenged areas of Atlanta. Read More→

Matthew Lettich is a practicing Attorney whose area of practice is primarily involved in bankruptcy representing both debtors and creditors. His other specialty is immigration. Matthew is affiliated with John J. McManus & Associates, PC. Their main office is located in Tucker, however Matthew is fairly well known in Gwinnett County since he has spent most of the last three and a half years practicing in the field of bankruptcy in Lawrenceville, where they currently have a satellite office.  His firm has also conducted real estate closings, foreclosure, foreclosure defense, litigation, family law, and other assorted fields in which he’s been involved in various degrees. 

Tony Pearl is an entrepreneur, copywriter, proud father, mentor, marketing consultant and talented teacher who resides in the Washington, DC area. He has traveled to over 26 countries, speaks 4 languages, and continues to travel extensively. He has been a professional Ballroom and Latin dance instructor, competitor, and exhibitor for over 19 years. As a Real Estate Investor, Tony has bought and sold over Ten Million dollars worth of real estate, and has been educated by and associates with the best.

Robert Woodruff has been investing in real estate for over 15 years, is the President of the Charleston SC Real Estate Investors Association (Charleston REIA), and a national speaker, and author of several training programs for investors such as “How to Find Killer Deals” & “The Keys to Cash Flow” and the new “51 Ways to Find Motivated Sellers”. Robert loves to teach people how to make money investing by showing them how to quickly and easily identify opportunities in the real estate and personal property markets. His personal goal in sharing his specialized knowledge is to help individuals retire early via buying, selling, renting and flipping real estate & personal property in a manner that is beneficial “win-win” for all parties involved.

Eric Schurke is the Director of Operations at VoiceNation, LLC, a local Buford, GA company providing toll free and local virtual office solutions and live answering services to thousands of businesses worldwide. During his nine years at VoiceNation, Eric has worked closely with many real estate investors and REIA’s (including Atlanta REIA and Super Smart) to create custom voice mail and live answering solutions to help them operate more efficiently so they can work smarter and not harder.

Erven Kimble is an accomplished pastor, teacher, author, community leader, licensed Christian Counselor and Real Estate entrepreneur. Erven is a visionary that has faithfully served as the Senior Pastor of a local church in Lilburn, Georgia for twenty years.

Erven searched the Book of Proverbs and extracted wisdom that reference business and finances to produce the series of articles called “Business By The Book”. The purpose of these articles present time tested Biblical principles in a way that is practical, relevant and beneficial to the average business person.

Larry Harbolt is the nation’s leading creative Seller Financing expert as well as a popular national real estate speaker and teacher whose time-tested strategies and nuts and bolts teaching style has helped thousands of aspiring real estate entrepreneurs realize their financial dreams with little or no money and without the need for credit. Larry has been successful creatively buying and selling real estate for over 30 years and has written numerous popular articles and real estate courses. Read More→

After a brief Wall Street stint in 1996, Kasian set sail on a journey into prosperity he never looked back from. He bought his first home for only $100.00 down, took over a non-qualifying loan, and the owner wrote him a thank you letter! Nationally renowned real estate “gurus” personally handpicked him to teach seminars featuring hundreds at a time. He co-authored the book Auction Fever: Winning Strategies to Buy, Sell, and Rent Real Estate with New York Times bestselling author and international real estate mogul Dr. Dolf de Roos. He has personally participated in and assisted his students with hundreds of profitable transactions. Drawing upon his world-class insider contacts, he actively writes, host teleseminars, and mentors others with proven, profitable strategies you can put to use immediately during these changing times. Read More→

Ben Rao is the President of Community Buying Group, a company that provides Atlanta REIA Members many additional Membership Benefits such as discounts on products and services with local and national vendors.  Ben spent fifteen years partnered with companies like Lanier, Cisco, and IBM to provide Small to Medium Business (SMB) and Enterprise accounts with Information Technology solutions to solve business problems.  After that, Community Buying Group & Rent Fast Community’s founder began a second career as a Real Estate Investor and Landlord.

As a small “Investor-Landlord”, he gained the hands-on entrepreneurial experience that comes with rehabbing properties to either immediately resell (“flip”) or to rent and manage. Currently Ben owns and manages over 40 rental properties in the Kansas City market and helps Real Estate Investment Groups across the United States grow their membership by delivering membership benefits and education at no additional charge to their members through CommunityBuyingGroup.com and RentFastCommunity.com. Read More→

Dorsie Boddiford is a full-time real estate investor. Upon graduating from Georgia Tech with a degree in Building Construction, she took the risk to become a full-time, real estate investing entrepreneur and purchased her first house. She has built a business out of flipping houses while striving towards financial freedom with investments. Her deals include purchases at foreclosure auctions and tax deed sales, negotiations for owner-financing, deals through door knocking and mail outs, as well as deals with other investors through wrap mortgages, hard money loans, and equity participation.

Dorsie’s investments also include a focus on wealth building through retirement accounts and she recently released her book “The Solo 401k: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to a Powerful Pension Plan” that she co-wrote with her father, Dyches Boddiford. Becoming an active investor was no easy task, but Dorsie has no regrets with her real estate career. She enjoys helping and encouraging other new investors who are eager to begin their journey out of the rat race. Her early successes have made her appreciate the power of working for herself.