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PLEASE NOTE: Main Meeting date changed due to Holiday
Mon, Jan 9th @ 5:30 PM in Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites
Atlanta REIA Main Meeting, Vendor Trade Show & New Year Celebration!
Atlanta REIA Members Can Attend at No Charge
Guests Can Attend for $20 at the Door or
RSVP Online Now for $10

Happy New Year everyone!!! May you and your family have more happiness, health and wealth this year than ever before. Atlanta REIA is glad that you have made us a part of your lives and given us the opportunity to help you along your way to prosperity and success. We all feel so blessed to have you as members, friends and followers.

After taking a few weeks off for the Christmas and New Year Holidays, we are glad to be back as I am sure you are too. To help us kick off the New Year right, we are having a special Atlanta REIA Main Meeting on Monday, January 9th at 5:30 PM at the Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites at 111 Perimeter Center West in Atlanta. Please note that we have rescheduled this meeting to the 2nd Monday of January due to the New Year Holiday. This is a NO SALES meeting and we have a great lineup for you!

Don DeRosaDon DeRosa, a seasoned real estate investor and a national real estate trainer will be giving us some tips and tricks for structuring profitable real estate deals using much of the modern day technology we have at our fingertips from virtually anywhere.

Deborah HarrisDeborah Harris, a real estate agent and associate broker for Keller Williams Realty with over 30 years of experience, is going to give us a Atlanta real estate market update on what has been happening over the last few months and what is likely to happen in 2012. If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what is going on in the Atlanta market, don’t miss this session.

Joe ThompsonNo New Year’s meeting would be complete without talking about New Year’s resolutions and goal setting. Joe Thompson, a financial consultant, seasoned investor and leader of the Haves & Wants Meeting will be talking about how we can all set some realistic, easily achievable goals to make 2012 our most successful and profitable year ever.

Sophie TingSophie Ting will share her journey in commercial real estate investor from the beginning to the point now she is going to close her first major deal. Sophie will introduce her power team and reveal how she “sold” the bank on her project with her PowerPoint presentation and business plan.

Bob MasseyBob Massey, a local, active real estate investor and a nationally known teacher of short sales will be sharing up-to-the-minute, earth shattering news as it relates to “Quiet Title” and defending against foreclosure. This is some current, cutting edge information you don’t want to miss!

New Year’s Party at the Tilted Kilt Perimeter (FREE FOOD!)

Tilted KiltAfter the conclusion of the Main Meeting, we will be reconvening at the Tilted Kilt Perimeter located at 1155-B Mount Vernon Highway in Atlanta for our 2012 New Year’s Party at 9 PM! Atlanta REIA and our sponsors will providing FREE Appetizers. The Tilted Kilt will also be offering half price appetizers as well as food and drink specials. Come celebrate the New Year with us. There will be plenty of food, networking and FUN! BTW, the Tilted Kilt will be showing the BCS National Championship Game so you don’t have to miss it to join us.

PLEASE NOTE: Atlanta REIA Members can attend at no charge with a valid membership card. Guests can attend the Main Meeting and New Year’s Party this month for $20. However, guests can RSVP Online Now for $10 and Save $10!

New Member Orientation at 5:30 PM

Karen BershadAt 5:30 PM, Karen Bershad, our new Atlanta REIA Membership Director and leader of the Small Business Group, will be hosting an informal New Member Orientation. Join Karen to learn more about Atlanta REIA and how to get involved. If you haven’t joined Atlanta REIA yet, you can join this month at the meeting for a special discounted price and start your New Year off lots of new friends!

MEETING AGENDA FOR JANUARY 9TH, 2012
5:00 pm: Vendor & Event Setup
5:30 pm: Trade Show, Networking, New Member Orientation
6:00 pm: Haves & Wants Speed Marketing Session
6:30 pm: Networking Activity
6:45 pm: Vendor Door Prizes & Giveaways
7:00 pm: Main Topics with our Guest Speakers
9:00 pm: New Year’s Party, Food & Fun at Tilted Kilt Perimeter!
PARTICIPATING VENDORS & SPONSORS

We want to personally thank the vendors below for helping sponsor this meeting, our New Year’s Party and the food. Thank you so much! It is not to late to sponsor this meeting. RSVP for a Vendor Table here for only $50 by using coupon code HAPPYNEWYEAR to save $25. Thanks again sponsors!

Atlanta Carpet ServicesAtlanta Carpet Services, Inc. – Providing carpet, wood, vinyl, and tile, ACS is dedicated to every aspect of your floor covering needs from initial consultation to the sale and follow-up services. Read More→

Fuller Center for Housing of Greater AtlantaFuller Center for Housing of Greater Atlanta – A faith-driven, Christ-centered, non-profit organization dedicated to providing adequate shelter for people in need in the Greater Atlanta area. Read More→

Solutions Realty NetworkSolutions Realty Network – Providing expert property management and investment services since 2003. You invest and we take care of the rest! We’re the solution to all your real estate needs. Read More→

Networth Realty of Atlanta, LLCNetworth Realty of Atlanta, LLC – A licensed, full-service residential wholesale brokerage that specializes in finding quality wholesale properties and making them available to you. Read More→

Halperin Lyman, LLCHalperin Lyman, LLC – A transactional real property law firm devoted to providing the full spectrum of non-litigation related real estate legal and consulting services to its clientele. Read More→

American IRAAmerican IRA – The American IRA mission is to provide the highest level of customer service in the self-directed retirement industry.
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Simply Amazing Staging AtlantaSimply Amazing Staging Atlanta – We have a proven record of converting those “For Sale” signs into “Sold” signs. We use 5 proven and time tested steps to sell your home in record time.

Foundation Publishing LLCFoundation Publishing LLC – Bob Massey is a nationally known real estate trainer dedicated to helping you generate immediate cash flow while building long term wealth through real estate investment.

Air Conditioning Experts, Inc.

Vacant Investment Protection

Angel Oak Funding

Keller Williams Commercial (Deborah Harris)

Happy Homeowners Club, LLC (Rock Shukoor)

Also, special thanks to all of our volunteers that help make our meetings and networking events possible!

Merry ChristmasThe Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Wants to thank all of our members, guests, vendors and volunteers who attended last night’s Atlanta REIA Main Meeting, Vendor Trade Show and Christmas Party for 2011 and made it such a great success. We truly appreciate your participation and look forward to sharing another great year with you in 2012. Thanks again so much! We love you! Read More→

Internet Marketing Online Boot CampOn November 29, 2011, Dustin Griffin taught the 8th installment of the Atlanta REIA Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp, a series of live, online webcast workshops that are designed to teach you how to establish a strong Internet presence, get your websites, pages and profiles to the top of the major search engines quickly and to generate all the leads you can handle using the power of the Internet. In Workshop #8 on Marketing with Online Videos, Dustin taught attendees how to use simple, easy to create, videos to promote your business online through video sites, social networking sites, blogging, email marketing, search engine optimization, webcasts and more. Read More→

Rock ShukoorOur November 15, 2011, we did a What’s Hot in Real Estate Investing Webcast with real estate investor and marketing expert, Rock Shukoor, on “How to Double Your Business in the Next 6 moths Using Videos”. As you know, videos have become easier and easier to shoot, edit and upload to popular video sites like YouTube. Online videos have been hot with consumers for years and now many businesses are trying to figure out how to take advantage of the viral video craze. On this webcast, Rock talked about why video marketing for business is HOT, the benefits of video marketing, the ease of video marketing, how we can use video to help promote our real estate investing business or any of our other businesses and much more! Read More→

Mon, Dec 5th at 5:30 PM @ Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites
Atlanta REIA Main Meeting, Vendor Trade Show & Christmas Celebration
Atlanta REIA Members Can Attend at No Charge
Guests Can Attend for $20 at the Door or
RSVP Online Now for $10
Panel Discussion on Real Estate Technology & Internet Marketing
with Panelists, Don DeRosa, Jens Beatty & Dustin Griffin

Atlanta REIA Main Monthly MeetingTechnology and the Internet have become more pervasive in the real estate investing than ever before for sure… and both are changing constantly, seemingly at the speed of light. As a result, many investors and small businesses don’t know where to start while others struggle to keep up with all the ongoing changes. What they don’t know often hurts them or puts them out of business.

At Atlanta REIA, we don’t want you to go out of business or fall behind the times. In fact, your real estate investing success is our mission and big part of the continuing education we offer. In case you haven’t noticed, Atlanta REIA is a high-tech real estate investing club dedicated to helping you become more a more tech savvy so that you generate more leads and buy and sell more real estate easier than ever before.

To help achieve this goal, on December 5th at 5:30 PM at our Atlanta REIA Main Meeting located at the Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites (map), we are having a very special panel discussion on “Real Estate Technology & Internet Marketing”. Whether you’re a new or seasoned investor, this is going to be a meeting you don’t want to miss. Three real estate technology experts are going to share their secrets on how they use technology to improve and automate their businesses and that of their customers, as well as answering your technology related questions.

Don DeRosaDon DeRosa is a seasoned real estate investor and a national real estate trainer and specializes in using his proprietary buying and selling strategies along with the iPad to automate his entire real estate investing business and that of his students.

Jens BeattyJens Beatty is not a real estate investor, but he is a seasoned graphic artist, website developer, WordPress expert and internet marketer who has been doing branding, marketing and website development for aggressive real estate investors for over a decade.

Dustin GriffinDustin Griffin is a seasoned real estate investor, internet marketer and long time website developer who specializes in building, dynamic, web-based business management systems for serious real estate investors wanting to automate and run their business on remote control from virtually anywhere while generating leads 24/7.

Christmas Party at the Tilted Kilt Perimeter (FREE FOOD!)

Tilted KiltAfter the conclusion of the Main Meeting, we will be reconvening at the Tilted Kilt Permimeter located at 1155-B Mount Vernon Highway in Atlanta for our 2011 Christmas Party at 9 PM! Atlanta REIA and our sponsors will providing FREE Appetizers. The Tilted Kilt will also be offering half price appetizers as well as food and drink specials. Come celebrate Christmas and the Holidays with us as we wrap up 2011 and prepare for a prosperous New Year in 2012. There will be plenty of food, networking and FUN!

PLEASE NOTE: Atlanta REIA Members can attend at no charge with a valid membership card. Guests can attend the Main Meeting and Christmas Party this month for $20. Guests can RSVP Online Now for $10 and Save $10! Read More→

Leslie MathisThis month at our Atlanta REIA West Meeting on Monday, November 28th at 6:30 PM at the Cherokee Cattle Company, local subgroup leader and real estate expert Leslie Mathis will teach you “How to Use Lease Options to Control and/or Buy Real Estate with Little to No Money Down”, as well as how to rent and sell your properties quickly using this powerful technique.  She’ll share with you how to quickly maximize your cash flow, significantly reduce your maintenance costs and headaches, and reduce the time you spend with management issues on your rental properties.

Atlanta REIA West MeetingYou’ll definitely want to attend this meeting if you want to hold rental properties long term while increasing your monthly cash flow and reducing all of the maintenance responsibilities and management hassles of a typical landlord. This is possible using a very powerful technique known as a Lease Option, which is a form of creative financing where you and/or the tenant/buyer leases the house and also has an option to buy it.

At this month’s West Subgroup, Leslie will share with you how you can use the Lease Option technique both to buy and sell real estate.  She’ll cover the following: Read More→

Internet Marketing Online Boot CampOn November 17, 2011, Dustin Griffin taught the seventh installment of the Atlanta REIA Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp, a series of live, online webcast workshops that are designed to teach you how to establish a strong Internet presence, get your websites, pages and profiles to the top of the major search engines quickly and to generate all the leads you can handle using the power of the Internet. In Workshop #7 on Marketing with Online Articles and Ads, Dustin taught attendees how to use popular, high PR article and ad sites to post keyword rich articles to improve search engine results and drive more traffic back to their websites and blogs for better lead conversion and improved SEO. Read More→

Internet Marketing Online Boot CampOn November 10, 2011, Dustin Griffin taught the sixth installment of the Atlanta REIA Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp, a series of live, online webcast workshops that are designed to teach you how to establish a strong Internet presence, get your websites, pages and profiles to the top of the major search engines quickly and to generate all the leads you can handle using the power of the Internet. In Workshop #6 on Using Social Networking for Business, Dustin taught attendees how to use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and others to generate more leads and help your site rank higher and faster on the major search engines. Read More→

Flip This HouseAs a valued Atlanta REIA Member or Guest, I wanted to let you know that there are only one day left to get registered for the “Real Estate Insiders Summit” taking place in Atlanta starting on Friday, November 11th through Sunday, November 13th. If you haven’t registered I highly suggest you do as there are only a handful of seats left.

A very good friend of mine, Than Merrill from A&E’s hit TV show, “Flip this House” is putting on the event and we are a sponsor. Than is an extremely successful wholesaler & rehabber and this year he has already bought and sold over over 100+ properties using a real estate business model that is an absolutely great way to make money on deals here in Atlanta.   

In fact, right now we have SO MANY of his students are killing it right now in many different areas of the country. Take Steve Hall for example. He came to the training Than had in San Mateo and last year he made over $500,000 flipping properties after attending this event not too long ago. This isn’t hype, this is reality and if you are willing to put in a few hours a month learning this business you will be amazed at not only how much money you make, but also how this business can give you the freedom to live life on your terms. Check out the details here and get registered below…

PLEASE NOTE: The special price below is good for you and one guest!

Register Now!

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Than Merrill & Jon SteingraberIf you are interested in making quick money “Wholesaling” properties our Training Opportunities Webcast replay with Than Merrill & Jon Steingraber from A&E’s “Flip this House” on “How to Make Money Wholesaling Real Estate – A No B.S. Discussion on What Current Opportunities are BEST in Today’s Market.”

Than and Jon wholesale a ton of houses each month. In fact, they make more money wholesaling houses than they do renovating and flipping houses. On this webcast, they are going to show you exactly how they run their business as well as how you can get started making money wholesaling distressed properties right here in Atlanta. They are alsogoing to go through exactly how they generates all their seller and buyer leads for these wholesale deals. This is the key to the business and exactly what you need to know in order to be successful. Read More→

Learn from the stars of A&E’s “Flip this House”
in the Atlanta Area from November 11th – 13th, 2011

Dear Friend,

Do you want to take advantage of one of the best times in history to make money buying and selling distressed Real Estate right here in the Atlanta area?

Would you like to learn how to invest in real estate in the next 60 days flipping properties even if you have no money and zero experience? How would it feel if you could do this month after month, like clockwork, because you spent just a few days learning a Real Estate business model that has made millions of dollars for people around the country?

If, you answered yes, the “Real Estate Insiders Summit” is being held in the Atlanta area. This is a one time event!

This exclusive event has sessions designed for beginners and seasoned professionals who have been in the business for decades.

As you know the Real Estate market has drastically changed over the past three years and it is vitally important that everyone understand that techniques that worked even just a few years ago have become totally obsolete. That’s why this SUMMIT is so important to your future success.

Register Now!

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Super Smart High Tech Home Buying & Selling WorkshopOn November 1, 2011, Dustin Griffin hosted the 5th installment of the Super Smart High Tech Home Buying & Selling Workshop Series for 2011 which is being held online and recorded for 24/7 playback for Atlanta REIA Members. In Part 5 of this workshop, Dustin gave attendees a general overview of the Super Smart Buy Site Back Office and Lead Management System and covered many of the basic and advanced features, benefits and available upgrades. Dustin will go into much greater detail on many of these Back Office features in future workshop sessions. Anyone can attend this live workshop series for FREE by registering here and Atlanta REIA Members can login here and watch the Workshop Replay below. Read More→