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Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance - Atlanta REIAI want to personally thank all those folks who came out to participate in our 2nd Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Monthly Meeting for Atlanta real estate investors, Realtors and other real estate professionals and entrepreneurs held at the Doubletree Hotel in Roswell, GA from 5:30 PM to Midnight. We truly appreciate all of you who are helping support our new Atlanta real estate investing group and are committed to supporting you in return.

As you now know, Atlanta REIA’s mission is your real estate success! In order to achieve this mission, it is our goal to provide you with Read More→

Robert Locke of Crown Realty & Management of Atlanta GeorgiaAt our second Atlanta Real Estate Investor Alliance Monthly Meeting in August 2010, Gordon Catts brought in his old friend and Atlanta property management expert, Robert Locke. Robert’s company, Crown Realty & Management of Atlanta Georgia, manages over 700 houses, maintains a staff of 24, has managed over 7,000 tenants and provide a full range of services for private investors, banks, builders, lenders, REIT’s, government agencies, and other brokers. Robert gave us a brilliant overview of the current state of the Atlanta rental market and offered us these 4 tips to survive and thrive in the current Atlanta rental market: Read More→

Robert Locke

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

Robert Locke of Crown Realty & Management of Atlanta GeorgiaRobert Locke and his wife Betty moved to Atlanta in 1978 and started buying houses as a sideline business working out of their home. When they ran out of money they started selling houses to investors. Without fail investors wanted Robert to manage them, forcing Robert to start a management company. After 20 years Robert has bought over 200 houses for his own account and has sold over 500 houses to investor clients. Crown Management Corporation manages properties for private individuals, banks, investors, government institutions, real estate investments trusts, builders, and other Realtors. Robert’s real love is locating and acquiring homes in the North Atlanta Area. Read More→

Barry Bramlett

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

Barry Bramett of the Equity DepotAn Atlanta native, Mr. Barry Bramlett is President and CEO of Equity Depot LLC, a private company based in Kennesaw, GA. Equity Depot aggregates and provides research data from a broad range of public notice, courthouse records, property data and owner information. From this data custom applications are created for the real estate, lending, legal and default servicing communities. Read More→

Dustin GriffinPerhaps you’ve heard, that as a modern day real estate investor, you need to have a strong internet presence and the ability to convert online traffic into leads and leads into deeds in order to survive and thrive in the new economy and real estate market in which we now live and operate. But with so many choices and so many gurus telling you what to do and how and where to spend your hard earned money, perhaps you are confused and just don’t know where to start. Read More→

The Fuller Center for Housing of Greater AtlantaThe Fuller Center for Housing of Greater Atlanta, faith-driven and Christ-centered, 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→

22 Questions to Ask a Realtor When No One is LookingOne of the challenges of working with Realtors is making sure that we are on the same page. Most Realtors are in the business of selling homes to retail end user buyers. This type of Realtor generally is not experienced in working with investors and may have been told by other agents or their broker not to bother with investors as we are to much trouble. Other agents are investor friendly and generate a large percent of their business through investors. These folks can be an asset to our business. Read More→

Family Painting at 10 Gould StDespite the 100 degree heat in Atlanta, many volunteers from the Atlanta Fuller Center, the Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance (Atlanta REIA), local churches and the Lakewood Heights neighborhood showed up today at 10 Gould Street to help paint homes as part of the Fuller Center’s Project Lakewood. Volunteers helped paint the Kinson’s home in Lakewood Heights which is being fully renovated by the Fuller Center of Atlanta. Volunteers also painted Stanley’s front porch across the street as he cooked his famous BBQ chicken for volunteers. Read More→

The Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance (Atlanta REIA) and the Fuller Center for Housing of Greater Atlanta are looking for volunteers who can help us build, renovate and repair more homes for needy families in the metro Atlanta area. Volunteers can assist us in a variety of ways: Read More→

Special Guests Robert Locke and Barry Bramlett will be speaking on the state of the Rental and Foreclosure Market in Atlanta

Atlanta REIA, the Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance, is a brand new real estate education and networking association for real estate investors and other real estate professionals. Whether you’ve been involved in the real estate industry for years or are just getting started, you will feel at home at Atlanta REIA since we will be catering to all levels of knowledge and experience. Read More→

Jeff Frank paints a home for the Fuller Center

Jeff Frank paints a home with the Fuller Center & Atlanta REIA

We want to thank volunteer Jeff Frank who donated some new and used painting supplies to the Fuller Center this weekend (July 24, 2010) during Project Lakewood. Despite the 100 degree heat, Jeff came out to 10 Gould St with a car trunk load of new and used painting supplies that can be used on housing renovation projects in Lakewood or sold at the LifeCycle Building Center for proceeds which can be used to fund other Lakewood projects. Again we want to thank Jeff Frank for his contribution and encourage others to donate new and used tools, building materials and supplies that can be used on projects or sold at the LifeCycle store. Read More→

Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance - Atlanta REIAThe Atlanta Real Estate Investor Alliance, aka Atlanta REIA, is a brand new Atlanta Georgia real estate investor association for real estate investors and other real estate professionals. Whether you’ve been involved in the real estate industry for years or are just getting started, you will feel at home at Atlanta REIA since we will be catering to all levels of knowledge and experience. We will be providing you: Read More→