Tampa Real Estate Investors Alliance Blog
Robert Shemin
Posted on August 4, 2012 by
Wealth advisor for both CNN, and FOX News, New York times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author with 16 titles including his mega success “How Come that Idiot’s Rich and I’m Not?” and “7 S.E.C.R.E.T.S of the Money Masters”. Robert Shemin is one of the nation’s most sought after real estate and financial market forecasters today.
Robert became a millionaire by the young age of 32, retiring from investing. Instead of keeping all of his wealth building strategies to himself, Robert decided to share his secrets and became an Internationally-respected Wealth Creation Expert.
Regularly sharing the podium with such financial luminaries as Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, David Bach, Suze Orman and Tony Robbins, Shemin helped create The Learning Annex Wealth Expo and has consistently been voted the “#1 speaker” by crowds of over 50,000 people.
Robert has been interviewed and quoted on all topics of finance ranging from real estate to branding, negotiating, entrepreneurship and investment strategy in over 300 publications including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, USA Today and TIME Magazine. He is a frequent guest on national, regional, and local television and radio programs such as National Public Radio (NPR) and CNBC’s “The Big Idea” with Donny Deutsch. Read More→
Ron LeGrand
Posted on August 4, 2012 by
Ron LeGrand is the world’s leading expert in residential quick turn real estate and a prominent commercial property developer. Ron has bought and sold over 2,000 single family homes over the past 30 years, and currently owns commercial developments in nine states ranging from retail, office, warehouse, residential subdivisions and resorts,. The developed value of his current projects tops two billion dollars and many of the profits are shared with student partners.
Ron is an active teacher, author and writer with a best selling book in stores today and a new one recently released. He’s shared the stage with some of the most famous people in the world, including Donald Trump, Dr. Phil, Jay Leno, Jerry Rice, past presidents, corporate CEO’s and movie/TV stars, and spends a great deal of his time conducting real estate training in rooms as small as 100 to as large as 20,000.
Ron is a former mechanic that has helped create millionaires numbering in the thousands and has hundreds of thousands of students all over North America and numerous other countries. He’s famous for his “tell it like it is” style and down to earth, humorous presentation about the real business of investing in real estate with little or no money or credit and building a fortune quickly with time tested and proven techniques, many created and trademarked by him. Read More→
Real Estate Joint Ventures & Wealth Without Risk with Duncan Wierman
Posted on August 3, 2012 by
On August 30th at 7:00 PM, Duncan Wierman will be joining us for another Training Opportunity Webcast where he will be teaching us about “Real Estate Joint Ventures & Wealth Without Risk”. Below is just a taste of what Duncan Wierman will be teaching on the webinar.
Register now for FREE and Duncan will show you how to…
- Locate property owners who NEED to sell FAST
- Pick up great properties below market value without doing any of the leg work
- Automate your entire real estate business with a few clicks of your mouse
- Put wholesale deals together by using joint ventures
- Build your BUYERS list in 20 minutes of investors who are ready to snap up your deals
- Email your buyers list about the properties you get under contract and get them SOLD FAST
- Get paid on your deals within 3 to 4 weeks.
Duncan Wierman
Posted on August 3, 2012 byDuncan Wierman is a full time investor in Greenville, South Carolina. His business revolves around automated systems so he can do less work and make more money. He has used internet marketing and automated internet systems for attracting buyers, sellers, and investors have allowed him to do over 300 deals a year without leaving his desk!
After working at real estate investing the hard way, Duncan finally swore to himself that he’d had enough: He then invested serious time and money into using systems that would pay off in less aggravation, more time, and more profits! He became an expert in finding motivated sellers, hungry buyers, and private lenders through the Internet. Read More→
Making a Fortune in the Real Estate Recovery with Marc Hrisko
Posted on August 3, 2012 by
We have a special Training Opportunity Webcast scheduled with Marc Hrisko on Thursday, August 16th at 7:00 PM on “Making a Fortune in the Real Estate Recovery”.
Marc says this webcast will be “A dynamic presentation that will keep you on the edge of your seat. There is a mountain of opportunity out there if you know where to look, and more importantly, what to do when you find it.”
Register now for FREE and Marc will show you…
- How to work with banks who are overwhelmed with foreclosures and will actually beg you to take their inventory for pennies on the dollar
- How to structure a flip in this real estate economy to eliminate reisk, increase profit and leave the rookies in the dust
- How to find tax deed opportunities that will result in fast and easy property acquisitions and big, huge, crazy profits
- and much more!
Marc Hrisko
Posted on August 3, 2012 byOne of the youngest members ever to be inducted into the Real Estate Hall of Fame, Marc Hrisko has been labeled a “rising star” and one of America’s most dynamic wealth and entrepreneur strategists.
A top speaker for Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad national seminars and Dean Graziosi’s The Insiders Edge Events, Marc Hrisko’s speeches and wealth-building seminars have been enjoyed by thousands of entrepreneurs in virtually every major city in the United States. In his role as a business coach, Marc has been responsible for helping launch the careers of some of the nation’s top entrepreneurs.
Prior to his professional speaking and executive coaching career, Marc served 10 proud years as a firefighter and medic. Marc’s commitment to public service stems from his family’s military legacy. Marc’s father, a retired Navy Master Chief, is now an employee of Marc Hrisko International. Read More→
What’s Happening at Tampa REIA – August 2012
Posted on August 2, 2012 bywith Guest Speaker, Mike Barnes
Join us at our next Tampa REIA Main Meeting on Thursday, August 9th at 6:00 PM at the Doubletree Suites Tampa Bay located at 3050 North Rocky Point Dr West in Tampa, FL. Our special guest speaker for August will be mobile media marketing expert, Mike Barnes, who will introduce you to some of the major Mobile Media Marketing Tools that you need to consider adding to your marketing arsenal to build your customer list, reach your list more effectively, generate more traffic and dramatically increase your sales and profits! RSVP to attend this meeting at no charge!
Starting with the basics, Mike will help you understand:
- The staggering statistics of the Mobile Internet Boom
- The tools you need to ride the Mobile Internet Wave
- The importance of having a mobile friendly website
- How a truly mobile friendly website looks and behaves
- Strategies to entice mobile customers to take action immediately
- Mobile list building strategies to build your lists quickly
- Using forms to build lists and capture customer data
- How and why to use customer coupons effectively
- How and why to drive customers to your very own VIP Club
- How and why you should be using QR codes to your mobile site
- Using Text Messaging to get your messages opened within 5 minutes
- And much, much more!
The future of the Mobile Internet and Mobile Media Marketing is hard, if not impossible, to ignore. By 2013 more people will be using their mobile devices than PC’s to get online due to the convenience and ease of use. Now is the absolute best time to start learning about this new technology and marketing medium so you can start learning, adapting your business and start using these tools is now to take advantage of the wave of new business you could be experiencing!
We look forward to seeing you at Tampa REIA Main Meeting on Thursday, August 9th at 6:00 PM at the Doubletree Suites Tampa Bay located at 3050 North Rocky Point Dr West in Tampa, FL just off the Causeway.
After the conclusion of the Tampa REIA Main Meeting (after 9PM), we will be reconvening at Whiskey Joe’s Bar & Grill located at 7720 West Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa for the “Meeting after the Meeting”. Come eat, drink, network and have fun with us as hang out late into the night on Tampa Bay!
For Real Estate Investors
Taught by Mike Barnes
On Saturday, August 11th from 9AM to 5PM, Mike Barnes, co-founder of Mobile Ready Marketing Team, will teaching the Mobile Ready Marketing Workshop at the Doubletree Suites located at 3050 North Rocky Point Dr West in Tampa, Florida. Mike will be teaching us many of latest tools, tips and techniques on how you can buy and sell more houses than ever before and build large buyer and seller lists faster using Mobile Media Marketing technology!
Here are a few of the subjects Mike will be covering:
- What does “Mobile Ready” really mean?
- How to create a mobile ready website that attract buyers and sellers
- How to build huge buyer and seller lists using mobile technology
- What is Text Message Marketing (TMM) and why you should be using TMM
- The benefits of Text Message Marketing over other marketing media types
- 18 ways to quickly build your mobile marketing list
- How to build mobile ready landing pages to sell or rent your investment properties
- Using Social Media to drive more traffic to your mobile website and build your lists
- Different types of Text Message Marketing campaigns you can use for real estate
- How to use QR Codes to market your investment properties
- And much, much more!
FREE DRAWING: All participants who register and attend the Mobile Ready Marketing Workshop will entered into a drawing for a chance to win a *FREE 2 Day Cruise to the Bahamas! *You must be present to win. Cruise does not include port fees, transportation and taxes.
After the conclusion of the Tampa REIA Workshop with Mike Barnes on Mobile Media Marketing (after 5:30PM), we will be reconvening on the Beach at Whiskey Joe’s Bar & Grill located at 7720 West Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa for the “Meeting after the Meeting”. Come eat, drink, network and have fun with us as hang out on the Beach on Tampa Bay!
Be sure to join our new Tampa REIA Mobile Real Estate Investor VIP List by texting the word Tampa to 813-377-3428 and we will text you with important Tampa REIA updates, announcements and events from time to time. We will NOT share your phone number with anyone and have no plans to send you more than 4 text messages per month. Standard text message rates apply. Join the Mobile REI VIP List Now!
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Mobile Ready Marketing Workshop for Modern Day Real Estate Investors on Aug 11th
Posted on August 1, 2012 byOn Saturday, August 11th from 9AM to 5PM, Mike Barnes, co-founder of Mobile Ready Marketing Team, will teaching the Mobile Ready Marketing Workshop at the Doubletree Suites located at 3050 North Rocky Point Dr West in Tampa, Florida. Mike will be teaching us many of latest tools, tips and techniques on how you can buy and sell more houses than ever before and build large buyer and seller lists faster using Mobile Media Marketing technology!
Here are a few of the subjects Mike will be covering:
- What does “Mobile Ready” really mean?
- How to create a mobile ready website that attract buyers and sellers
- How to build huge buyer and seller lists using mobile technology
- What is Text Message Marketing (TMM) and why you should be using TMM
- The benefits of Text Message Marketing over other marketing media types
- 18 ways to quickly build your mobile marketing list
- How to build mobile ready landing pages to sell or rent your investment properties
- Using Social Media to drive more traffic to your mobile website and build your lists
- Different types of Text Message Marketing campaigns you can use for real estate
- How to use QR Codes to market your investment properties
- And much, much more!
FREE DRAWING: All participants who register and attend the Mobile Ready Marketing Workshop will entered into a drawing for a chance to win a *FREE 2 Day Cruise to the Bahamas! *You must be present to win. Cruise does not include port fees, transportation and taxes.
Is Your Business Ready for the Mobile Internet Boom?!?
Posted on July 24, 2012 by
“Where were you when the Mobile Internet Boom occurred?” “How did your business grow and benefit from the greatest internet explosion since the original Internet Boom of the 90’s?” These are questions you will be asking yourself in the next few years, once this latest boom has already come to pass. Will you take advantage of the initial Mobile Internet Wave or will you let it pass you by?
Did you know, according to Google, that the Mobile Marketing Revolution is growing 8 times faster than the original Internet Boom?!? Did you also know that nearly 50% of people viewing your business’s marketing material are doing so from their mobile ready device such as smart phones and tablets? If you are not “mobile ready”, then you need to “get ready” or sit back and watch your competition pass you buy in a hurry.
If you don’t want to be left behind and want to surround yourself with other like-minded real estate investors and entrepreneurs who “get it” and would like to take full advantage of the latest and greatest real estate tools, tips, technologies and strategies, please join us at our next Tampa REIA Main Meeting on Thursday, August 9th at 6:00 PM at the Doubletree Suites Tampa Bay located at 3050 North Rocky Point Dr West in Tampa, FL just off the Causeway. RSVP to attend this meeting for FREE!
Our special guest speaker for August will be mobile media marketing expert, Mike Barnes, who will introduce you to some of the major Mobile Media Marketing Tools that you need to consider adding to your marketing arsenal to build your customer list, reach your list more effectively, generate more traffic and dramatically increase your sales and profits!
Starting with the basics, Mike will help you understand:
- The staggering statistics of the Mobile Internet Boom
- The tools you need to ride the Mobile Internet Wave
- The importance of having a mobile friendly website
- How a truly mobile friendly website looks and behaves
- Strategies to entice mobile customers to take action immediately
- Mobile list building strategies to build your lists quickly
- Using forms to build lists and capture customer data
- How and why to use customer coupons effectively
- How and why to drive customers to your very own VIP Club
- How and why you should be using QR codes to your mobile site
- Using Text Messaging to get your messages opened within 5 minutes
- And much, much more!
Mike Barnes
Posted on July 24, 2012 byMike Barnes, founder of SEO Alien, and co-founder of Mobile Ready Marketing has become recognized through his innovations in Social Media Optimization using Social Media. Mike has also been invited to speak nationally, sharing his knowledge and expertise on several subjects such as Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Management and Mobile Marketing.
He is dedicated to help his customers reach the highest in optimization. With over 16 years of online marketing experience, Mike has the expertise and the sales knowledge to help his customers succeed.
Always taking advantage of the Internet marketing possibilities, Mike’s sales career flourished when he became one of the top sales people in the USA for one of the most recognized car brands in the world. His online techniques helped him rise to the top. Today, Mike uses Mobile marketing in combination with Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter and many others.
Mike has trained in sales, motivation, and positive thinking. His professional sports career, sales achievements and passion have showed him how to be competitive in this ever-changing Internet world.
Webcast on Finding Motivated Sellers with Robert Woodruff on July 19, 2012
Posted on July 18, 2012 byDeals as Low as 10 Cents on the Dollar?
If so, join us on Thursday, July 19th at 7PM for our next Training Opportunity Webcast with real estate expert and President of Charleston REIA, Robert Woodruff, who is going to going to teach you 5 of The Best, Easiest, Cheapest and Safest Ways to market your real estate investing business.
Some marketing strategies work for some businesses, some strategies work for ALL businesses. Some strategies cost $5,000 to $10,000 every month and provide little results. Knowing which strategies work and which strategies waste your small business’s limited resources is extremely valuable knowledge. This specialized knowledge is vital to the success of your marketing efforts as an investor and small business owner and the lack thereof can be detrimental to acquiring massive wealth in real estate.
On this special Training Opportunity Webcast, Robert will teach you…
- The Best Ways – Strategies to get response rates so high from your marketing that professional marketers simply won’t believe you.
- The Easiest Ways – Strategies so easy, a kid can do it… literally. How to use middle and high school kids to do some of your most profitable marketing strategies.
- The Cheapest Ways – Strategies that cost less than a dollar and will make your phone ring off the hook.
- The Safest Ways – Strategies to keep your marketing legal, compliant and make your business invisible to code enforcement.
Don’t waste your time and money on marketing strategies that don’t work when you can join us on the webcast and learn how to save thousands of dollars on your advertising costs. After investing more money than most people make a year on advertising, Robert quickly learned the most cost effective approaches to marketing. Now, on Thursday, July 19th at 7 PM, Robert is going to teach you how to find the best deals from motivated sellers, in any market, at any time, for mere pennies-on-the-dollar. Join us online and don’t miss out!
An Evening with a Real Estate Expert Webcast with Robyn Thompson on July 26, 2012
Posted on July 17, 2012 by
Please join us on July 26th at 7 PM ET for a very special Evening with a Real Estate Expert Webcast with Robyn Thompson, “The Queen of Rehab”. On this webcast, Robyn will share her story on how she got started investing in real estate as a broke waitress back in the 90’s and has since bought, fixed and sold 320+ homes with price ranges as low as $8,000 to as high as $4,000,000. She has rehabbed as many as 51 houses in one year. Robyn has since relocated to Ocala, FL where she still buys, renovates and sells houses to this very day. She treats her business as a serious cash machine and not just a hobby. Join us on the webcast and she will tell you how you can too! Register for this Webcast Now!
POSTPONED: Will Reschedule ASAP – On Tuesday, July 24th at 7PM we have an exciting webinar for you that will spill the beans on a done-for-you killer tactic to turn the tables on any bank and convert a mortgage mess into a pile of cash.
Hi, my name is Stefan Kasian and I am an ex-Wall Street insider – turned real estate investor with nearly 2 decades of real-world in-the-trenches real estate and deal making experience that I will share with you on how you can put the latest dirt on the banking scandals that keep hitting the news daily—to work for you.
Its starting to catch on: many homeowners and investors around the country are fighting back at the banks for their abuses. Maybe the mortgage broker or bank screwed you, and your interest rate isn’t what they promised.
Maybe the bank promised you a loan mod but not you are facing foreclosure. Or maybe you are still current but the market moved against you or someone you know and now you are saddled with debt but you want to do the right thing.
In this rare once-only webinar on Tuesday, July 24th at 7PM, I will have a very special friend who will teach you a revolutionary secret that is silently changing the real estate world forever.
- This process works on any types of properties, residential or commercial, current or past due.
- A simple “litmus-test” to see if your property qualifies based on common banking violations. Hint: it’s not the violations you think—often these are behind the scenes but we show you how to find out anyway.
- This killer strategies Can work on investment properties or residences, or if you are an investor, it can work on your seller’s property too.
- Why most “forensic loan audits” are a waste of your money unless you have this “missing step”.
- Stop foreclosure for 36+ months and counting…and keep your home…it’s done for you—real live testimonial proves how its done.
- Imagine the boost in your cash flow when you settle your mortgages for pennies, at a fraction of interest rate you are paying. No loan mods, no refis, no credit checks.
- How folks just like you went from a mortgage mess of a property to a bona fide “FREE AND CLEAR” house: the hype, the risks, and true facts.
And this is not risky, pie-in-the-sky stuff. This is a solid lawful process done every day behind the scenes, special deals being made with banks you won’t hear on the news. It’s just starting to hit the investor world—be among the privileged few who will have the know how to turn deals other investors snub into amazing cash cows.
And best of all, there is no upfront charge to get started.
Please click here to Register for this FREE Webcast! Be sure to plug in this date, Tuesday, July 24th at 7PM, into your calendar and dial in a little early since we only have a limited number of lines. The first 17 who join us will get a special gift valued at $600.00. Join us to make your 2012 financial dreams come true! Your economic survival and prosperity depends on this call.
Sincerely,
Robyn Thompson
Posted on July 17, 2012 byRobyn Thompson is the nation’s leading expert on buying, renovating and selling homes for huge chunks of cash and is known throughout the United States and Canada as “The Queen of Rehab”.
After spending 9 years working a dead end corporate job, Robyn realized that her hard work and dedication for IBM was not going to provided financial independence. She walked away from her secure paycheck and never looked back.
Over the past 13 years since Robyn left IBM, she has bought, fixed and sold 300+ homes with price ranges as low as $8,000 to as high as $4,000,000. She has spent as much as $2,100,000 in labor and materials in one year to renovate properties with more than 22 contractors working full time to take the ugly homes she bought and turn them into little castles at lightening speed. Read More→
Stefan Kasian
Posted on July 17, 2012 byAfter a brief Wall Street stint in 1996, Kasian set sail on a journey into prosperity he never looked back from. He bought his first home for only $100.00 down, took over a non-qualifying loan, and the owner wrote him a thank you letter! Nationally renowned real estate “gurus” personally handpicked him to teach seminars featuring hundreds at a time. He co-authored the book Auction Fever: Winning Strategies to Buy, Sell, and Rent Real Estate with New York Times bestselling author and international real estate mogul Dr. Dolf de Roos. He has personally participated in and assisted his students with hundreds of profitable transactions. Drawing upon his world-class insider contacts, he actively writes, host teleseminars, and mentors others with proven, profitable strategies you can put to use immediately during these changing times. Read More→
What’s Happening at Tampa REIA – July 2012
Posted on July 5, 2012 bywith Special Guest, Robert Woodruff
Would you realistically like to retire and live off of your investments in the next 24 months? Does this sound too good to be true? Well, it’s not because Robert Woodruff has a 2 year retirement plan for you that he is going to share with us on July 12th!
Robert Woodruff, President of Charleston REIA, is a real estate investing expert who teaches his members and students how to make money by showing them how to quickly and easily identify opportunities in the real estate, personal property, & small business markets.
His personal goal in sharing his specialized knowledge is to help his members and students retire early by teaching them to buy, sell, rent and flip real estate, personal property and small businesses in a manner that is beneficial for all parties involved.
Robert will be out guest speaker at our first Tampa REIA Meeting on Thursday, July 12th at 6:00 PM at the Doubletree Suites Tampa Bay located at 3050 North Rocky Point Dr West in Tampa, FL. There is NO CHARGE for our friends, followers and guests to attend this meeting. Everyone can attend for FREE!
There will be Late Nite Networking at the “meeting after the meeting” starting after 9:30 PM at Whiskey Joe’s Bar & Grill located at 7720 W Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa immediately after the Main Meeting.
On Thursday, Robert will teach you how to:
- Invest in low-risk assets
- Utilize creative financing to buy and sell
- Managing the “risk factors”
- How to analyze the numbers
- Achieve Infinite Returns
- Employ Massive Leverage to Easily Achieve your Dreams
- Achieve financial freedom and early retirement in record speed
If you are serious about your investing success and ready to leave the 9-5 rat race behind once and for all or you are tired of working your “full time” investing job, join us at Tampa REIA on July 12th to discover a way out!
A Tampa REIA Workshop with Robert Woodruff
On Saturday, July 14th in Tampa, FL
If you want to know how real estate investors find the best deals, this is your chance. At this live event in Atlanta, Tampa or Charleston, Robert Woodruff will teach you how to find the absolute best deals on Real Estate Investments. Robert has been investing for over 15 years and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars testing out different marketing strategies promoted by the best in real estate. After years of trial and error, he has created an event for investors to learn the top 51 ways to find motivated sellers.
Robert is the President of the Charleston Real Estate Investors Association, national speaker and author of “How to Find Killer Deals” and “The Keys to Cash Flow”, member of the National Real Estate Investors Association and the Global Information Network. Robert’s specialty is teaching investors how to find single family houses, commercial buildings, mobile homes, and mobile home parks and acquire these properties with little to no money or credit.
The Tampa Workshop will take place on Saturday, July 14th at 9:00 AM at the Doubletree Tampa Bay located at 3050 North Rocky Point Dr West in Tampa, FL. At this one day live event, Robert will show you 51 Ways to find motivated sellers and share with you successful and unsuccessful marketing that he used to build his real estate empire.
Click here for more info on how to Join Tampa REIA for only $100/year
& attend the 51 Ways Workshop for FREE!
You Will learn…
- How to locate and identify motivated sellers
- Marketing strategies that cost pennies on the dollar and guaranteed to make your phone ring off the hook
- How to talk to a motivated seller and find out what information you need from them
- Where to find distressed properties, determine how to deal with any issues and how to discover whether this property is right for you
- Negotiate a lower purchase price, over the phone, without ever seeing the property
- Scripting needed to talk to a motivated seller and how to get the information you need out of them
This one day live event will reveal real estate investing secrets that have proven, over and over again, to be successful in finding, funding and increasing your real estate portfolio. Remove barriers to your success now… Invent a new mindset for financial security and prosperity for your future. Learn how to plant seeds today and start reaping success tomorrow!
Would You Realistically Like to Retire in the Next 24 Months?
Posted on July 5, 2012 byDoes this sound too good to be true? Well, it’s not because Robert Woodruff has a 2 year retirement plan for you!
Robert Woodruff, President of Charleston REIA, is a real estate investing expert who teaches his members and students how to make money by showing them how to quickly and easily identify opportunities in the real estate, personal property, & small business markets.
His personal goal in sharing his specialized knowledge is to help his members and students retire early by teaching them to buy, sell, rent and flip real estate, personal property and small businesses in a manner that is beneficial for all parties involved.
Robert will be out guest speaker at our first Tampa REIA Meeting on Thursday, July 12th at 6:00 PM at the Doubletree Tampa Bay located at 3050 North Rocky Point Dr West in Tampa, FL.
On Thursday, Robert will teach you how to:
- Invest in low-risk assets
- Utilize creative financing to buy and sell
- Managing the “risk factors”
- How to analyze the numbers
- Achieve Infinite Returns
- Employ Massive Leverage to Easily Achieve your Dreams
- Achieve financial freedom and early retirement in record speed
If you are serious about your investing success and ready to leave the 9-5 rat race behind once and for all or you are tired of working your “full time” investing job, join us at Tampa REIA on July 12th to discover a way out!
Tampa REIA & The Profit Have Arrived!
Posted on July 3, 2012 by
The Tampa Real Estate Investors Alliance (aka “Tampa REIA”) is a new Tampa Bay real estate investors association for new and experienced real estate investors, real estate entrepreneurs and other real estate professionals who invest and do business in the real estate industry.
Tampa REIA’s purpose is to help promote our members’ real estate investing and business success by providing extremely affordable, high quality, relevant real estate investing information and education, as well as frequent, fun and rewarding real estate networking opportunities. Our goal is to be the premier educational and networking organization for real estate professionals in the Tampa Bay area.
We will achieve these goals through our meetings, special interest groups, networking events, seminars, webcasts, workshops, retreats, bus tours, charity workdays and other member benefits such as big discounts from suppliers such as Lowe’s, Sun Belt Tool Rentals, Sherwin Williams, Sears Commercial, Sprint, Nextel, Rent Fast, Build a Sign, Super Smart and our business members and industry partners.
We will also be publishing our brand new newsletter, The Profit, which will be delivered each month a week or so prior to the Tampa REIA Main Monthly Meeting. The purpose of The Profit is to help keep you and our members, friends and followers updated on all the ups and downs of the real estate market; changing laws, rules and regulations; the latest real estate investing techniques, strategies and so much more.
The Profit is also designed to keep you and our other subscribers updated and informed of all the events and happenings going on at Tampa REIA each month as well as exposing you to a wide variety of speakers, trainers, mentors, experts, vendors and suppliers serving the real estate industry. Read More→
Real Estate + The Internet = The Perfect Marriage
Posted on July 3, 2012 by
Hello, my name is Tony Pearl. I’m a successful veteran real estate investor who has done a lot of deals but got bored with it all a few years ago and started ‘playing around’ with marketing on the internet.
Translation: When the crap hit the fan and real estate started sucking in 2008, I had to do something else to put food on the table, and I chose the internet.
It is my pleasure to bring you the ‘inside scoop’ on how things are progressing for me and other real estate investors who are successfully going online to get buyers, sellers, private lenders, and almost anyone or anything else you can think of to use in our businesses… and how you can do the same! That’s what this column, “Pearls of Wisdom,” is all about.
So unless you’ve been living like a cave man these past few years, you’re surely aware of how almost everybody is online now. Think about this: Who do you know who DOESN’T have at least the minimum requirements of an email account or Facebook profile? It would probably take you a minute to come up with a name, am I right? Exactly. Read More→
Rental Properties in Your IRA
For legions of investors frustrated with puny yields on savings and bonds, slow growth retarding stock market returns, and the usual substantial risk involved in security investing (any given stock or bond can potentially become worthless overnight), we have good news: The combination of declining real estate prices and steady or increasing rents have opened up a window of opportunity in real estate for income-oriented investors. In fact, years after the “smart money” was selling off real estate ahead of the bubble collapse, we are seeing signs that smart money is getting back in the real estate market. Indeed, up to 20 percent of residential real estate now sold is sold to investors – and not just to “play and pray” amateur property flippers, but to value-oriented investors as well, who are seeking to generate immediate positive cash flow.
Advantage for IRA Owners
This is a big development for IRA investors, because generating cash flow sufficient to maintain properties is important for IRA owners. Because you are restricted to $5,000 in new contributions to IRAs every year ($6,000 for those over age 50), you have to pay for any needed repairs or renovations to properties either with cash in the IRA, bringing on a partner, non-recourse debt financing, or other retirement assets you can roll over into the account. When you can realize immediate positive cash flow from a property, however, net of financing costs and taxes, that takes a lot of the pressure off, and makes owning real estate in an IRA much simpler. Read More→
