Have you heard all those real estate investing success stories about making tens of thousands of dollars on a single deal? About having enough passive income so you don’t have to work anymore? Are you ready to write your own success story!? Are you ready to Break Through in your real estate investing career?

Then you must attend the Breakthrough Real Estate Investing Academy – November 3-6at the Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Perimeter Center located at 501 Lake Hearn Drive in Atlanta, GA! It’s a brand new, one-of-a-kind event that will cover all of the things you need to do to take advantage of this amazing real estate market. Maybe you’re still trying to land your first deal, but just can’t seem to Break Through whatever is keeping you from getting it done? Or perhaps you’re an experienced investor, but want to leverage the latest techniques to step it up a notch while the getting is good (and the getting is really good, when you know what you’re doing!)

If this is you, then check out what you’ll learn at the brand new Breakthrough Real Estate Investing Academy – put on by two experienced investors who know Atlanta and the Southeast, and who always put on education-packed events: Don DeRosa and Duncan Wierman.

PLEASE NOTE: This event currently sells for $2500 on Don and Duncan’s websites, but Don and Duncan, whom are both members and active supporters of Atlanta REIA, have very generously given us a few dozen tickets to this training event to resell as a fundraiser and membership drive for or organization. Therefore Atlanta REIA Members can attend this event for ONLY $99 (Save $2401!) and Non-Members for ONLY $199 (Save $2301). If you are a Non-Member, you should Join Atlanta REIA as a Silver Member for Only $100/year first, then purchase this event for only $99 and get a 1 year membership for the same price as the special guest tuition of $199. Thank you Don and Duncan for this special offer!!!

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Short Sale Expert, Bob Massey is back at Atlanta REIA teaching a FREE workshop for Atlanta REIA Members on Saturday, October 22nd from 9AM to 1PM at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D in Buford, Georgia. This will be a two part workshop. The first will be on the foreclosure process in GA, the law and how it affects the agent, the seller and the investor. Bob will cover:

• Foreclosure process in Georgia
• Loan modification
• Deeds In Lieu of Foreclosure
• Tax implications of forgiven deficiency
• Deficiency and foreclosure
• Future Credit Implications of foreclosure, bankruptcy, DIL, Short Sale with FHA, Fannie, Freddie and USDA
• Bankruptcy
• Relationship between seller and bank
• Agent’s responsibility to the seller
• Agent’s responsibility to the bank
• The bank’s process to evaluate an offer
• Making offers on Short Sales
• How to support your offer to get it accepted
• BPO process
• Is it a breach of fiduciary responsibility for agent to negotiate short sale for seller?

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On Tuesday, October 11th and Thursday, October 13th at 7PM, we are doing our first WordPress Website and Blogging Online Webcast Workshop as part of our Atlanta REIA Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011. Dustin Griffin will help you setup a WordPress.org Website and Blog in class from start to finish. You will also learn how to use your new WordPress Website and Blog to help manage and automate your Internet Marketing Strategy from any virtually any web-ready device such as a PC, notebook, netbook, iPad, Droid, Smart Phone, etc.

Whether you run a real estate investing business or any type of other business, a WordPress Website and Blog will definitely help improve your credibility, marketing efforts, online presence and lead generation. The best news is, you don’t have to be a techie to use WordPress, but it doesn’t hurt either. We are teaching our Atlanta REIA members and guests how they too can be “High Tech Home Buyers & Sellers” and utilize modern technology to run their businesses more effectively online and offline.

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is part of the Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp for 2011. If you are not already attending the entire boot camp, you can register for the WordPress Workshop below as a standalone workshop.

WordPress Website & Blogging
Webcast Workshop
October 11th & 13th at 7PM via GoToWebinar

Come join us and let Dustin show you how other successful investors and businesses are using WordPress to dominate the search engines, automate their Internet Marketing and generate all the leads they can handle online. Here is some of what we will be covering and doing in class. Read More→

POSTPONED: New date will be posted soon.

Did you become an unexpected landlord? Are the tenants running the show? Are you being held hostage by your tenants? Are your tenants in a slow and no pay mode? Are you tired of being a landlord? Do you want to get control of your tenants because you can’t afford to pay a property manager?

If so, we have good news! On October 29th & 30th, Russ Hiner of Home Buyers of Georgia and Chris Littleton of Solutions Realty Network are teaching a 2 day Property Management Workshop. This Property Management Training is going to help you understand how to be a better property manager. This two-day training will teach you how to handle difficult tenants. By taking this training you are going to be able to have some guidelines to make better decisions. Being a better property manager will put money into your pocket. By being a taking this class, you will learn and grasp your short comings as a landlord.

This dynamic training is going to make your life easier as a hands on property manager. You will feel more confident because you have rules and guidelines in order to work with your tenants in a professional manner. Your ability to guide and direct and manage people is key to your success in the area of long-term wealth building.

From this training you will understand how to be able to hire the correct property management company. By Knowing the correct people to put on your power team you will save money and be able to manage the management better.

The Property Management 101 Workshop takes place on October 29th & 30th, 2011 from 9 Am to 5 PM at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D in Buford, GA. Sign in for he workshop starts at 8:30 am. Tuition is discounted 10% now through October 21st. As an early bird special, Gold Members are $67 each, Silver Members $89 and Guests $112. After August 20th, Gold Members will be $74, Silver Members $99 and Guests $125. Register now! Read More→

When a new small business is started, it is always with the idea it will succeed. But within the first 5 years, over 80% of these new start-ups will fail. With all the economic uncertainty out there, looming tax increases, mandated healthcare and increasing government bureaucracy and regulations, this makes it even tougher for small businesses to survive and thrive. Many new business quickly fail for the following reasons:

• Poor financial review and planning
• Inadequate capitalization
• Inadequate tax planning
• Poor marketing
• Lack of management systems/controls 
• Inability to adapt to changing market conditions

These are just a few common obstacles that an entrepreneur must know and overcome to successfully run any small business.

On Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 9 AM, Karen Bershad, the Small Business Advisor and leader of the Atlanta REIA Small Business Group is conducting a FREE “Back to Basics Workshop for Entrepreneurs”. This workshop is FREE for Atlanta REIA Members. Non-Members and Guests can attend this workshop for only $10.

This small business workshop is designed to give you a detailed overview of setting up a business, different types of business entities, what your business looks like by department, accounting issues, putting systems in place, team building and much more! Join us at the FREE Back to the Basics for Entrepreneurs Workshop on October 1st to get more detailed information on setting up a new small business or getting your business back on track so you can survive and thrive in 2011 and beyond!

PLEASE NOTE: Atlanta REIA Members MUST RSVP to attend this event for FREE. Those who fail to RSVP will be charged $20 at the door if seating is still available.

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