What’s Happening at Atlanta REIA – Week of September 3, 2012

This week, don’t forget our Atlanta REIA Main Meeting with Don DeRosa has been rescheduled for Monday, September 10th due to the Labor Day Holiday. Tuesday is Mountain REIA with Gordon Catts. Wednesday is the Creative Deal Structuring Group with Russ Hiner. Thursday is the Haves & Wants Meeting with Joe Thompson.

PLEASE NOTE: Our next Atlanta REIA Main Meeting is being held on September 10th instead of the first Monday of the month due to the Labor Day Holiday. ALSO NOTE: The Atlanta REIA Main Monthly Meeting is also moving to a new venue at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel located at 4355 Ashford Dunwoody Road in Atlanta, GA just across the street from Perimeter Mall. This will be our new meeting place each month until further notice.

Mountain REIA is a new REIA, led by Gordon Catts and Richard Benthal, that meets on Tuesday, September 4th at 6:30 PM at the Golden Corral located at 2025 Market Place Blvd in Cumming, GA. This group is an educational and networking group that brings in local, active investors and to provide information and education in a low or no-sales environment. This group is open to everyone.

The Creative Deal Structuring Group takes place on the first Wednesday of each month at the Whitehall Tavern (formerly the Cheyenne Grill) located 2391 Peachtree Rd NE in Atlanta (Buckhead). The Creative Deal Structuring Group, hosted by local investor and real estate investing expert, Russ Hiner, is a monthly educational and networking group of like-minded people who want to succeed in creating wealth through creative real estate investing. Members and guests will learn problem solving techniques and the art of deal making.

The September 5th meeting is all about “Deal Structuring”. Visit this link to Download Your Homework for the Meeting. Your instructions are:

1. Start with the document Deal Structuring Exercise and it will tell you what you need to know for Sept 5th!
2. Look at the Property Information Pages (they begin with PIS)
3. Look at the Comp Pages see if you agree with Russ’s ARV. (The repairs and ARV are from Russ)
4. Read all of the material which is in the link
5. Structure 2 deals that make sense for you.
6. Bring your 2 offers and any questions you have to the meeting for discussion

Do your homework ahead of time and you will get more out of this excersise, even if you try and fail, it is better than doing nothing.

Haves and Wants is a weekly investor’s networking, brainstorming and deal making jam session hosted by Joe Thompson and held every Thursday at 5 Seasons Brewing at the Prado from 1:30 PM till approximately 3:00 PM. This group has been meeting for over 6 years and is all about networking, sharing information, doing deals and making money right now. Be sure to bring lots of your business cards and flyers and be prepared to promote your business and/or your haves, wants and deals with our group. If you are a real estate player or want to be, this is one meeting you don’t want to miss!

5 Seasons Brewing is located at 5600 Roswell Rd (map) inside the Perimeter at the “Prado” in Sandy Springs. The all natural, organic food at the 5 Seasons is excellent and the hand-crafted beer is even better! Come out and eat, drink, network and share your deals with us! There is no charge to attend this meeting for Atlanta REIA Members or guests. Please come early and stay late. We would love to have you!

Atlanta REIA is excited to announce that our very own Don DeRosa will be our keynote speaker on Monday, September 10^th at our next Atlanta REIA Main Meeting to be held at 5:30 PM at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel located at 4355 Ashford Dunwoody Road in Atlanta, GA just off I-285N across the street from Perimeter Mall.

As many of you know, Don is a part time real estate trainer and mentor and full-time real estate investor who actively buys, sells and holds properties each month for huge profits and long term cash flow. Join us on Sept 10^th and Don will share with you, many of his Real Estate Insider Secrets and the state-of-the-art tools he uses to evaluate deals and make them work – for him and for the seller.

He’ll show you the secret tools and strategies he uses every day to create profitable deals right here in Atlanta, even when there appears to be nothing to work with. Don will show you how to create an abundance of deals to choose from so you can too! Plus he’ll show you how he gets the information to evaluate a deal, wherever is he, so you’ll never waste time with leads you shouldn’t spend time on and beat other investors to the most profitable deals.

Don will walk through real world, actual deals, to demonstrate step-by-step how to apply these strategies, tools and techniques. Bring your deals, and he’ll show you exactly how to evaluate the lead, determine your exit strategy, structure the deal, negotiate with the seller, and get the paperwork done almost instantly and without any of the hard work you normally do to get your deals done.

For those of you that attended Robyn Thompson and Larry Harbolt’s Wealth Blue Print Workshop on August 18th, we have your final 2 Audio Courses for download that were unavailable at the event. You can now download “How to Buy Winning Properties and Avoid the Losers” ($99 value) and “How to Wholesale REOs” ($99 value). If you attended the event, click here we will email you the links to download the audio courses as a zip file of MP3 audios that you can playback on your computer or mobile device. Attendees… Download Your Bonuses Now.