What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA – Week of January 23, 2012
Posted on January 22, 2012 by
We’ve got a busy week at Atlanta REIA. Monday is the Atlanta REIA West Meeting with Jim Hitt on real estate investing with an IRA. Tuesday is the Note Buying Group and the IMBC Workshop on Email Marketing. Wednesday is the Beginning Investors Group on New Media Marketing for Newbies with Rock Shukoor. Thursday is the Haves & Wants Meeting as well as the Evening with a Real Estate Expert Webcast with Robyn Thompson. And Saturday is a full day workhop with Don DeRosa on how to combine the latest and greatest real estate investing techniques with the latest technology to become a “Mobile Real Estate Rockstar”!
Moved to February 13th
JUST ANNOUNCED: 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 (map) in Atlanta due to a scheduling conflict with the hotel. The location is the same. Only the date has changed. Atlanta REIA is also very excited to announce that Robyn Thompson, “The Queen of Rehab”, will be our main speaker at our February Main Meeting where she will teach you how to turn foreclosures, estate sales and ugly houses into fast cash and huge profits. Robyn will also be teaching a more in-depth workshop on this subject matter on Saturday, February 18th.
On Saturday, January 28th from 9 AM to 5 PM at the Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites, local Atlanta Real Estate expert, mentor and national speaker, Don DeRosa, will be teaching a full day training workshop where he will show you how to find, evaluate, buy and make thousands on houses right in your own backyard. At this workshop, Don is going to teach you everything you need to know to become a “Mobile Real Estate Rockstar” whether you’re a new or seasoned real estate investor, agent or broker!
Don is going to show you how to how and where to buy houses for under $20K with $500 a month cash flows so you and make more money than you thought possible this year… all without using a dime of your money! It is possible! Come find out how for only $15 for Atlanta REIA Gold Members, $25 for Silver Members and $35 for guests. These prices are good for two people! Register Now and Don’t Miss Out!
This month at the Atlanta REIA West Meeting on Monday, January 23rd at 6:30 PM at the Cherokee Cattle Company (map) located at 2710 Canton Road in Marietta, GA, Jim Hitt of American IRA, will teach you how to use IRA’s to invest in real estate. Jim will teach you how to use your Roth IRA to buy real estate tax free, how to lend money on real estate deals, how to borrow money from private lenders using their IRA and much more. Jim will dispel these common myths and mysteries about self-directed IRAs and retirement plans:
- Can you borrow from your retirement account?
- The common answer is “no”. We will show you how to turn that into a “yes”.
- Easy steps to raising private capital using your self-directed IRA
- Can you partner?
- Learn how to partner with yourself and others
- Using your self-directed IRA to create current income legally
- How to leverage your IRA
- Turning your Roth IRA into tax free wealth
- And much much more!
Please join us at Atlanta REIA West to learn more about investing with IRAs! 
But wait, there is more… immediately following the Atlanta REIA West Monthly Meeting, we will reconvene in the Cherokee Cattle Company lounge for Late Nite Networking. We hope you will come out and eat, drink, network, learn and have fun with us and keep the investing conversations going late into the evening! Atlanta REIA Members can attend the meeting at no charge and guests for $5.00.
The Note Buyers Group an Atlanta REIA educational and networking subgroup led by Tom Boyer that is designed to teach real estate investors how to buy and sell the mortgage notes that secure a property rather than buying the property itself. The group’s goal is to transact deals within the group and increase our professionalism through education in a changing credit market. The agenda for this month’s meeting is (1) Notes for Sale – Bring yours for analysis, (2) Smaller investment amount opportunities and (3) Strategies using seller financing to buy/sell properties, and (4) Legislation update as appropriate.
The Note Buyers Group meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM at Olive Garden located at 2467 Cobb Parkway SE in Smyrna about 1/2 mile from I-285. If you are a new investor, this is a great opportunity to pick up pointers on what to do and what not to do when investing in notes. Atlanta REIA Members can attend at no charge. Read more >>
On January 24, 2012 at 7PM, Dustin Griffin will be teaching the 10th installment of the Atlanta REIA Internet Marketing Online Boot Camp, on Email Marketing. Dustin will teach you how to setup a free Email Marketing Provider account where you can send up to 12,000 emails per month at no charge. He will teach you how to customize your account, create email signup forms, embed those forms on your website, WordPress blog and Facebook, create email templates, send newsletters and more!
on New Media Marketing Techniques for Newbies with Rock Shukoor
This month, our special guest speaker is local real estate investor, author, mentor and marketing expert, Rock Shukoor who will be discussing some new media marketing techniques such as mobile media marketing, video marketing and social media marketing that we can use to generate home buyer and seller leads. Please join Rock and the rest of us on Wednesday, January 25th at 6:30 PM at Chef Rob’s Caribbean Cafe located at 5920 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs. Networking starts at 6:30 PM, Topic discussion starts at 7 PM.
The Atlanta REIA Beginning Investors Group (BIG) is an educational and networking special interest group, hosted by Alan McDonald, for new investors who are just getting started in real estate investing as well as “new again” real estate investors who’ve taken a few years off and are looking to start investing again. The entire purpose of this group is to help new investors get their first deal and help new again investors get their next deal. Read more >>
Haves and Wants is a weekly investor’s networking, brainstorming and deal making jam session hosted by Joe Thompson and held at 5 Seasons Brewing located at 5600 Roswell Rd (map) inside the Perimeter at the “Prado” in Sandy Springs from 1:30 PM till approximately 3:00 PM. This group is all about doing deals and making money right now. If you are a real estate player or want to be, this is one meeting you don’t want to miss! Read more→
Join us on January 26th at 7 PM ET for a special Evening with a Real Estate Expert Webcast with “The Queen of Rehab”, Robyn Thompson! On this webcast, Robyn will share her story on how she got started investing in real estate over 13 years ago and has since bought, fixed and sold 300+ homes with price ranges as low as $8,000 to as high as $4,000,000. That’s right, Robyn has renovated junkers as well as multi-million dollar luxury homes and can teach you to do the same if you are interested in rehabbing houses for huge profits. Register for this Webcast Now!
Robyn will also be telling you about here upcoming visit to the Atlanta REIA Main Meeting on February 13th and what she will be sharing, as well as her full day Rehabbing Workshop on February 18th that is only $10 for Gold Members, $20 for Silver Members & $30 for Guests. BTW, these prices are good for 2 people! Don’t miss this exciting, educational webcast and the all day workshop as well!
