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Advisory Board Donald Tucker DonTuckerRE@gmail.com Investor Focus Group Leader: Blue Springs / Lees Suumit Debra Felderhoff superiorrental@gmail.com Landlord : Investor Focus Group Leader: Weekly Wednesdays Michelle Winberry mlwinberry@gmail.com Investor : Realtor Focus Group Leader: Weekly Wednesdays Brian Winberry
Advisory Board / Membership Desk Dan Goodwin DanGoodwin@kw.com Realtor : Short Sales Advisory Board / Membership Desk Shelda Goodwin SheldaGoodwin@kw.com Realtor : Short Sales Focus Group: Eddie Speed Mentoring Students L. Scott Ficinus Scott@Ficinus.com Realtor Advisory Board / Membership Desk John Welchert JWelchert@platinumrealtykc.com
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as they could be the next person to bring you a deal, fund a deal or buy a deal or be the service provider.
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Just last week I was reading a weekly email newsletter , The Notebuyers Notebook that was talking about how their company is utilizing MeetUp.com. This is an online networking website that is a social networking website designed to facilitate live meetings. Meetup is designed to help you make live connections with people with similar interests and there are meetups for just about every interest imaginable. Anyway, Dave, the writer of the newsletter said we were deciding on new means of networking we turned back to Meetup . . . I noticed that joining a Meetup, . . ., expanded your network by usually at least 50 people that share a similar interest. Then today I received a voice mail from a new investor who was wanting to find out where he could get the list of wholesale buyers. My response was to find a place where real estate investors meet on a regular basis: like a MAREI or KCIG meeting or a special event like the Realty 411 event last week and to network his way into a quality list of not only wholesale buyers, but other wholesale sellers, service providers that would be needed in all of his deals and potential funding partners just in case he would rather buy the deal instead of wholesale it. So this month, how did I do the deal? I did it by knowing someone. So I will see you at the MAMAREInet.com
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BUSINESS MEMBERS
MAREI Business Members are here to serve you in your Real Estate Business. They specialize in Real Estate Professionals and have joined our association as a Business. You can find out more about each of our Business Members at www.MAREInet.com/Services . Dont see a service you need? Ask on the Forum!
Foundations Cornerstone Foundation Joe Williams 913-220-5253 Insurance www.NREInsurance.com Jim Jrolf 913-915-3232 1-888-741-8454 jj@nreinsurance.com Property Management www.JamiesonHomeTeam.com Kevin Jamieson 816-503-4671 Staging www.ShowHomesKC.com Michelle Davis 913-449-3593
Investors www.kcmoHomeBuyer.com The Tuckers 816-200-2198 kcmoHomeBuyer.com Property Management www.MyPremierleasing.com Jeff Wood 816-841-9500 Suppliers: Building www.CabinetGiant.com Josh Burns 1-877-484-4268 Title Company Real Estate Brokerage www.RealtyResourceKC.com 816-523-4400 RealtyResourceKC@gmail.com Suppliers: Building www.HomeDepot.com
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Directors Welcome
Since the first planning meetings way back in November 2003, Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors has came a long way and has a lot more to offer our members for their $99 annual dues than just the opportunity to go to a meeting once a month. Our website has grown to have a bunch of very useful tools and resources and takes a prospectors map to navigate. We have a public side of our website to help support local and national investors who cant quite swing the membership fee or have not yet seen the value in being a member. We also have a private, members only section that supports our members. We will cover some parts of both in this welcome packet. Since that very first meeting we have also aligned ourselves with National Real Estate Investors Association to bring more to our members and take us from the club status to a trade association status. Through our alignment we are able to bring our members an ever growing list of money saving discounts, valuable tools for our businesses, and more. The more that comes from National REIA is in our Community Involvement Efforts, Government Affairs Committees, and an Industry Standard Education Program. To cover all the wonderful benefits available to you would take a full day training class and then some, I personally attend one National REIA meeting a year to brush up on the old benefits and find out about the new ones and it is a 4 day event. So in an effort to tell you about all the benefits of our Association we have copied the Member Welcome Packet with out links to the Members Only specific items. I hope you will find time to browse through to learn more about them and how you can utilize them. Note that this packet is created as a digital packet as many of the tools and money savings are online and require web site links to access. So you may want to print this out and put in a notebook, I urge you to keep it in digital form so you can find things online faster. Secondly as we add or change things we will update this Packet and post in on the website for current members to download. And we do get new stuff quite often so we update quite often. So, thanks for considering membership in our association, when you join you will receive a similar package that includes full access to all the member benefits and discounts. Browse through the packet, use the benefits, and get involved.
Kim Tucker
Director of MAREI KimatMAREI@Gmail.com 913-815-0111
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Monthly Meeting
Monthly Meeting: Usually 2nd Tuesday of the
Month., 6pm to 9pm Career Education Systems, FREE for members, Guests $25 at the door, $15 if you preregister
Agenda 5:30 Set Up 5:45 Orientation 6:00 check in & Vendor Hall 7:00 mini speed networking 7:15 guest speaker: 8:30 Wrap Up 9:00 End
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online on our calendar of events for $15. Any fees that you pay to attend a meeting can be applied toward a full membership should you join right there at the meeting that night. We also have a bonus for those joining at the meeting or in advance of the meeting. We have a box of assorted books, Audio CDs, and software that all new members can select one item out of the box. After checking in, find our general marketing table and place your flyers, brochures or what ever it is that you brought with you. Then work your way around the room and find out what each and every one of the vendors have to offer.
Register for any give aways that they might have. Next we suggest you take a bit of time and brush up on your networking skills before you attend a meeting. We have a full hour from 6 to 7 where attendees can work the room to meet as many new contacts as possible. Feel free to introduce yourself to everyone. At 6:30 we have a very informal new member orientation where we go through all of the benefits we have for our members and answer questions about MAREI. This is a short 15 minute session. At 7:00 we go into our short mini speed networking where we break into groups and take 15 minutes
for everyone in the group to take the time to meet each other and exchange business cards. At 7:15 we take our seats and introduce the guest speaker or speakers. Our presentation is always an educational presentation, not a sales pitch, where you will have the opportunity to learn. Our speakers run till 8:30, when we end the presentation and have the speaker available for more one on one questions. We also have further networking from 8:30 until 9:00 as well as issue the Professional Housing Provider Certificates for the evening. Last we collect the member name tags so they have them for the next meeting.
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Housing Provider
NaPHP: Professional Housing Provider The PHP Certification is a National Designation and Certification from the National Association of Real Estate Investors. Earn Your Professional Housing Provider Certification with MAREI Earn instant credibility and show those you are working with that you are a professional investor committed to the highest standard of excellence. All MAREI educational seminars have been approved for students to earn credits towards obtaining the nationally acclaimed Professional Housing Provider Certification offered by the National Real Estate Investors Association (National REIA). Details To earn the PHP Certification, you must complete a minimum of 60 credit hours of education: 42 hours in required core subject areas, and 18 additional hours in the subject areas of your choice. MAREIoffers all the seminars needed to complete this certification program on a two year cycle. What is the PHP Designation? The PHP designation is a national educationbased certification program designed to recognize the high level of knowledge and professionalism among the designation holders. It is sponsored and overseen by the National Real Estate Investors Association, a non-profit trade association serving the real estate industry. Why Obtain the PHP Designation? Only individuals completing the educational requirements will be permitted to hold themselves out to the public as a Professional Housing Provider. The designee will be recognized in the form of an award certificate, pin, and the right to use the designation. By having a standardized education in the topics outlined increase your ability to achieve your goals in real estate investing. Further, as National REIA works to increase the visibility of the PHP designation, individuals who have earned the certification are held to a higher standard of credibility when dealing with legal and governmental bodies. It aids legislators in perceiving educated investors as a larger group for political action, and in turn, provides our industry with greater legislative influence. How Will I Obtain These Hours? Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors offers course in all the areas needed to complete this certification. When attending a MAREI PHP certified training event, attendees must arrive within 5 minutes of the start time to be issued a PHP Certificate. For the certificate to be valid, it must be embossed with the MAREI seal at the end of the program. Certificates will be embossed no earlier than 15 minutes before the scheduled end of the event. Attendees must attend the entire event; no partial PHP credits can be awarded.
Attendees are responsible for keeping track of PHP certificates and will not be replaced. Attendees are also responsible for tracking progress towards completion of their PHP designation. A tracking folder is available for download and at meetings. Once all courses have been completed, submit your PHP certificates to the PHP committee for verification of award. In addition, courses completed at MAREI can be combined with PHP certified courses offered by other NaREIAassociated organizations and conferences. It is possible that seminars and training events offered by other groups may qualify for PHP credit; however, all outside training events must meet the following requirements: 1. 2. They must be taught live The must be pre-approved by the MAREI PHP Committee
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They must provide a Certificate of Attendance acceptable to the MAREI PHP committee.
Keeping Track of Hours Download the Master Record Sheet from the Website or pick up at a meeting or other PHP Event. Collect PHP Certificates at the Event and Keep with your Master Record Sheet. Mark youre your credits down in the Master Record Sheet. Once you have completed the Required Core Credits plus an additional 18 Credits, confirm with the MAREI and earn your certification and the right to use the Professional Housing Provider Designation in your marketing.
Insurance (Workers Compensation) 1 hour Local Regulations 2 hours Management 4 hours Marketing 2 hours Negotiation 3 hour Purchasing 2 hours Rehab (Classroom) 2 hours Rehab (Hands-On) 2 hours Tax Law (Income) 1 hour Tax Law (Other) 1 hour Tenant-Landlord Law 2 hours
Appraisal 2 hours Contract Law 3 hours EPA Regulations 1 hour Ethics 1 hour Fair Housing Law 2 hours Federal Regulations 1 hour Finance 6 hours Inspections 2 hours Insurance (Liability) 1 hour
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Bill Twyford aka The King of Communication and author of How to Sell a House When Its Worth Less Than the Mortgage, will be here LIVE and IN PERSON, Nov.3rd & 4th, 2012. He will teach us how to get OUR DEALS ACCEPTED! Bill says that it all boils down to NLP! Bill is an NLP specialist. He can teach you how to speak the language of the banks, the homeowners, and the buyersIn other words: He can make you wealthy! You will learn:
What to say to the banks to get your short sale package to the top of the heap What to say when the bank says no How to get the bank to work with you even when your homeowners are in bankruptcy How to get your homeowners to sign contracts on the first meeting What paperwork to use to make every deal air tight Learn the little known Bankruptcy Short Sale How to negotiate when buying notes
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