This ain’t your mama talking this time.  We investors are always looking for information and what to do. This month at BIG, we’re going in a different direction. The topic is going to be on what NOT to do as an investor.

Our special guest speaker is none other than Bill Cook. Bill is regarded as one of the most experienced investors in the country. Bill will be talking about the mistakes he made as he was investing, and what not to do as a first time investor. It will certainly be a VERY informative and if you know Bill, humorous topic.

BIG, the Beginning Investors Group, meets on Wednesday, February 22, at Chef Rob’s Caribbean Cafe at 5920 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs.  The meeting begins at 6:30 pm with networking and at 7pm we start with a short presentation by the group’s founder and leader Alan McDonald. If you are a member of Foursquare, or Twitter, please remember to check in! February’s BIG meeting will be jammed packed.  Come early to get a seat!  Come ready to learn! Come ready to participate!  Come with pad and pen! Read More→

PLEASE NOTE: The date of the Atlanta REIA Main Meeting for February has been changed to Monday, February 13th at 5:30 PM at Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites located at 111 Perimeter Center W in Atlanta due to a scheduling conflict with the hotel. The location is the same. Only the date has changed.

Atlanta REIA is excited to announce that Robyn Thompson, “The Queen of Rehab”, will be our main speaker at our Main Meeting on February 13th at 5:30 PM at the Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites, located at 111 Perimeter Center West in Atlanta, where she will teach you how to turn foreclosures, estate sales and ugly houses into fast cash and huge profits. Specifically, Robyn is going to teach you…

• How to target after out-of-state owners with direct mail and get a whopping 12.7% response rate
• How to get Pocket Listing from REO Realtors so you can buy the very best, most profitable foreclosure deals
• How to target market to properties that are in probate or are estate sales with lots of equity
• The top 5 strategies to building a massive cash buyers list so you can quickly and easily generate $15k per month. Imagine having your deals “sold” before you ever put them under contract.
• 5 creative strategies to buy properties, even if you have no money and bad credit
• How to locate and manage a top notch renovation crew so your rehabs will be gorgeous and finished on time and on budget
• How to prescreen buyers in less than 10 minutes so you know with certainty that they can close and you will be cashed out
• How to make your renovations drop dead gorgeous for pennies so you can sell for top dollar
• and much, much more!

Watch this short video from Robyn…

SPECIAL BONUS for 1st 100 Attendees
Robyn also has a very special bonus for the first 100 people who RSVP below and attend our meeting. She will be giving away a brand new Audio Course entitled “The Fast Track Principles to Wealth” which will teach you the absolute fastest way to get out of debt. She will give you the three key ingredients to becoming wealthy no matter what your current financial situation might be as well as the critical steps to wealth accumulation and the 5 steps necessary to achieve the millionaire mindset. She will also walk you through the 7 types of real estate transactions that can be done with little money down so you to can build massive wealth from mere pennies. These cutting edge strategies are how she went from a broke waitress to multi-millionaire in three short years. Robyn sells “The Fast Track Principals to Wealth” for $249, but is offering as a gift for the first 100 people who RSVP below and join us at our February 13th Main Meeting. Guests can attend our meeting for $10 at the door or Guests Can RSVP Online Now For FREE! Atlanta REIA Members can attend this meeting at no charge as usual, but need to RSVP and let us know you will be attending to receive a copy of Robyn’s eCourse by registering here… Atlanta REIA Members Only RSVP.

“What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA” is a mini-session hosted by Atlanta REIA Executive Director, Dustin Griffin, to update our members and guests on many of the exciting new things that are going on at Atlanta REIA in the upcoming weeks and months such as upcoming workshops, webcasts, special events, members benefits and more!

“New Member Orientation” is a mini-session hosted by Karen Bershad that is designed to introduce our new members (and guests interested in become a member) to our organization and show them multiple ways they can get involved, get connected and get educated. Come learn more about our website, meetings, networking events, workshops, webcasts, replays and more!

“Real Estate Investing 101” is an new educational mini-session designed to give new real estate investors an exciting glimse into the highly profitable world of real estate investing. This month’s special guest speaker is local real estate expert, Russ Hiner who will be giving you an overview of the different ways you can profit by investing in real estate.

“There’s an App for That” is a fun new mini-session dedicated to updating you on some of the latest and greatest applications or “apps” for your iPad, iphone or Droid smartphones and tablets for both business and personal use. We want to help you become a high-tech, mobile real estate entreprenuer and this month, Don DeRosa is going to help you do just that!

“IRA Investing 101 & 201” is a 2 part mini-sesion that will be led by Jim Hitt of American IRA, LLC. Part 1 will take place this month and cover some IRA investing basics. Part 2 will take place at our March Main Meeting and will cover more intermediate to advanced IRA investing strategies.

“Ask the Attorney” is an informative and educational mini-session where you can ask a real estate attorney your legal questions. If you don’t have a real estate attorney, this will be your perfect chance to meet one and get your questions answered. This month’s special guest will be John Maurer.

“Have’s & Wants Speed Marketing” is 30 minute marketing session hosted by Joe Thompson that is held to help facilitate deals by giving our members the opportunity to quickly market things they HAVE and no longer want and to find things they WANT but don’t yet have. Be sure to get to the meeting early and get on the speed marketing list if you want to participate.

After 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 the “Meeting after the Meeting”. The Tilted Kilt will be offering half price appetizers as well as food and drink specials for our members and guests. Come eat, drink, network and have fun with us as hang out late into the night!

*Please Note: Meeting agenda is subject to change.

Each and every month, for the duration of our meeting, we have a Vendor Tradeshow in which you can come out and meet many of our participating business members who help sponsor our meeting. It’s not to late to sponsor this meeting. Business members RSVP for a Vendor Table here for only $25 by using coupon code “VIPDISCOUNT“ and save $50. Thanks again sponsors!

Networth 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, 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→

Solutions 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→

Atlanta 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 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→

Atlanta Private Lending – Atlanta’s premier private real estate lending company. We provide private, hard money loans to professional real estate investors for renovation and investment purposes. Read More→

American IRA – The American IRA mission is to provide the highest level of customer service in the self-directed retirement industry. Read More→

Simply 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.

Angel Oak Funding

Air Conditioning Experts, Inc

Vacant Investment Protection

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

The Small Business Group is proud to present Mr. Jeff Smith, an Action Coach, on February 9th at 3:30 PM at the 5 Seasons Brewery located at 5600 Roswell Rd, Sandy Springs, GA (map) where he will speak on “Real Estate Investing: Making Your Business Work For You – The Plan, The Actions, The Results!” Jeff will cover…

• How the future you intended your business to be can be achieved.
• Do you know the proven formula for getting your investment business to the next level.
• What to focus on to be a successful investor.
• Learn how to execute practical strategies that will create massive results in your business.
• Gain proven strategies you can use to identify and overcome challenges in your business.
• Learn, have fun, be entertained and take home some valuable strategies for your business.

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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 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 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.

No 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 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 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!

After 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!

At 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!

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 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 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 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, 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, 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 IRA – The American IRA mission is to provide the highest level of customer service in the self-directed retirement industry.
Read More→

Simply 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 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!

The 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→

Technology 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 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 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 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.

After 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→

This 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.

You’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→

Jon Steingraber, one of Than Merrill’s partners who is the star of A&E’s hit TV show “Flip This House”, will be our special guest speaker at our Atlanta REIA Main Monthly Meeting on Monday, November 7, 2011. Jon and Than have worked together for five years and during that time frame they have bought and sold over 550+ properties in the past 8 years and is currently buying and selling between 8 and 10 properties every month.

At the meeting, Jon is going to teach you how to get your first wholesale deal done within a 90 day time frame, even if you are new to the business. Jon is also going to teach you how he and Than are Wholesaling over a 100 properties a year, the systems they use to automate their entire business and more importantly he will teach you how you get can started wholesaling real estate and bring in between $10,000 to $45,000+ per deal with just a few hours of your time each week.

PLEASE NOTE: Jon and Than are giving everyone who attends the meeting a FREE copy of their Audio Training CD on “Building a 6 Figure Real Estate Business”.

Jon is going to break down every aspect of his current business from:

• How to find the most profitable Real Estate deals
• What marketing strategies bring in the most profitable deals and give you the largest ROI
• How to actually get REO offers accepted by the banks at the prices you want
• How to analyze deals and structure contracts properly so you minimize your risk and maximize your upside as an investor
• What paperwork you need to use to protect yourself in wholesale transactions
• How to build a dominant online presence for your real estate business in the next few months
• How to build a massive buyers list using social media
• How to find all the cash buyers in your area who are actively buying deals from wholesalers
• How to structure contracts when you sell so you are protected
• How to finance your wholesale and rehab deals using private lenders
• How to manage your whole business with just a few hours committed each week
• How to build a business that will literally run itself.
• And more!

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

Atlanta 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→

SafeGuard Communities – A real estate investment company providing turn key real estate solutions for individuals who want to invest in quality, cash flowing, single family homes.
Read More→

Halperin 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→

Fuller 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→

Alpha Dog Investments – We are a private investment group with 14 years experience who buys houses regardless of price, condition or location and help solve your real estate problem. Read More→

Have you made a deal yet? You are looking all over Georgia, the entire Atlanta metro area. You’ve got some knowledge of Rehabbing, Flipping, Subject-To’s, Short Sales, REO’s, Pre-Foreclosures, Multi-Family, Lease Options, Commercial, Notes, Tax Liens, Buying on the Steps, Retail, Ugly Houses, Pretty Houses, Probate, Abandoned Houses. Wow! Armed with all this know-how and getting around you should have several deals under your belt, No?

Perhaps having all that knowledge and being all over the map ain’t as big of a help as you thought.

There is nothing wrong with knowing about all those things mentioned before, but maybe it’s time time to pick out one or two niches and “Be Who You Want to Be.” In other words, FOCUS.

That is the subject of our next BIG Meeting on October 26, 2011 . Learning how to pick some niches of real estate investing that suit you and focus on them to bring you success. Read More→

You really want to take advantage of this hot Buyer’s market, you know it’s a great time to be involved in real estate, but there’s something stopping you—something BIG.  You just don’t know where to get the money to do your deals!  Well we’re about to fix that-come join us at Atlanta REIA West on Monday, October 24^th at 6:30 PM and discover various ways to get access to CASH to do your deals.  We’ll expose you to some pretty creative and non-conventional methods to fund your deals.  This is one you definitely don’t want to miss, because its common knowledge that the one with the cash gets the best deals!

We have assembled a panel of REAL money sources for you.  This group of lenders and experts has never before been brought together like this!  Meet Jim Hitt with American IRA, a real source of a wealth of information on private money lending.  Meet David Dick, a Hard Money Lender right here in the Atlanta area.  Meet Tim Gibson, a Senior Loan Officer with the #1 Ranked Independent Mortgage Lender for Purchases in the U.S. Meet Jim Gibson, a Reverse Mortgage Specialist hand-picked from the masses to represent this very unique product.  Attend Atlanta REIA West and meet them all, live and in person.   These four people have access to millions of dollars to lend to people just like you.  Read More→

This month at the Creative Financing Group (CFG) meeting on Wednesday, October 12th at 6:30 PM at Champps in Alpharetta, Self-Directed IRA expert, Monte Smith of Entrust Georgia, will teach you how to use IRA’s to invest in real estate.

At this month’s Creative Financing Group meeting, Monte will teach you:

• How to use your IRA to buy real estate
• How to use your IRA to buy rental houses
• How to use your IRA to lend money on real estate deals
• How to use your IRA to buy real estate Options for HUGE PROFITS
• And much, much more… Read More→