MAREI Business Member Home Rental Services honored as a Smart Company to Watch by Thinking Bigger Business

Thinking Bigger Business has a magazine and website dedicated to better businesses and Kansas City area Businesses.  In their 2015-2016 special edition they honor Kansas City Area Smart Companies to Watch. On page 5 of that special edition is their feature.

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National REIA Update December Addition

National REIA Update December Addition

REIA Update Dec 2015 Our Industry Partners Legislative Benefits Events Our Industry Partners Download your Copy today! Legislative No Mortgage Tax in the Highway Bill: In a win for the entire real estate industry, this month Congress passed, and the President signed, a bi-partisan 5-year transportation bill that excluded the use of “g-fees” (in essence, a tax on mortgages) – that were previously…

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All Cash Offer. . . . WRONG, think again!

When the deal is funded by private money or a hard money lender is it an ALL CASH OFFER? What do you think?

In the past week we have talked to two different people who say they are making an all cash offer on a property.  In both cases there is a private lender involved and I am sorry to burst your bubble people, but it’s not an all cash offer. The response I received was that in their training class they were told that private money and hard money were the same as an all cash offer.  And maybe the…

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What are "Term's" in Real Estate Investing?

What are your favorite "Terms" to use as bait when negotiating in Real Estate?

This was a featured article from REAPsWeb.com this week. By Wendy Ceccherelli So, you are preparing your first offer to a seller. What contract terms are negotiable? For some reason, most buyers only think about purchase price when negotiating with a seller. But virtually all other terms are negotiable, and can make a BIG difference in profitability for an investor. Here are some common terms…

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Reasons I Chose Real Estate for My Long Term Investing Plan: #2

Reasons I Chose Real Estate for My Long Term Investing Plan: #2

Reason #2 – Security The importance of providing for yourself and your family by having a safe and secure job was demonstrated to me from a very young age. This safe and secure job provides a steady income with benefits, a retirement plan, and so forth. Watching as my parents worked, and my own experience from my work history, I also realized the idea of having this so called safe and secure job…

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Special Discount from MAREI Business Member Discover HVAC

2nd Annual #SpeedNetworking for #ToysForTots a HUGE Success

2nd Annual #SpeedNetworking for #ToysForTots a HUGE Success

It is very hard to define success at most meetings, but this one was easy to see . . . lots of toys, lots of people, and a lot of noise. There was a record 95 people in attendance with 85 of them Speed Networking  – WOW. And we ended up with a HUGE Box of Toys, packaged very methodically to get as many toys as we could in the box, plus we had enough toys to fill it 2 more times.  Plus we…

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12 Days of Christmas

12 Days of Christmas

As a Great Big Thank you to all of our members, we have gone through our Member Library and some of our own personal research to assemble 12 different guides to Real Estate Investing.  Each contains links to materials already in the MAREI Member Library as well as links to resources on third party sites that we think you might find helpful in your real estate investing business in 2016. To access…

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Year End Financial Checklist for Investors

Year End Financial Checklist for Investors

Photo from GraphicStock.com With the end of 2015 fast approaching here is a brief checklist of things you may want to take care of before year end. Most companies in the self-directed retirement space are also in agreement that one of the best investments for retirement accounts are passive, cash flow investments such as real estate notes. This is why Eddie and I have spent years building our…

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Reasons I Chose Real Estate for My Long Term Investing Plan: #1

Reasons I Chose Real Estate for My Long Term Investing Plan: #1

Reason #1 – Necessity Owning a home has been a part of the American Dream since the birth of our great country. I believe everyone wants a place they can call home. In order to get to this place, many of us will have to rent our way there. Yes, in the beginning, the American Dream is made up of renters. Where will these renters prepare for their own American Dreams? Rental property of course!…

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Speed Networking for the Kansas City Area Real Estate Professional

Speed Networking for the Kansas City Area Real Estate Professional

This is “THE EVENT” of the year for real estate professionals in the Kansas City metro area who want to meet and connect with fellow Real Estate Professionals.  We ask all members to invite all of the people they know in the Real Estate Field or if they offer services for the Small Business Owner. What is it:  Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors meets once a month for education and…

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Health Insurance for Real Estate Investors - from National REIA

The National Real Estate Investors Association is pleased to let you know we can now offer our members the best, most convenient health insurance services for you and your family.   Our goal at REIA is to listen to the needs and concerns of our members and partner with you to provide the services you are seeking.  You asked for affordable, competitive health insurance, and we have delivered!  You…

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Speed Networking: 4 Simple Steps to an Effective Elevator Pitch

Speed Networking: 4 Simple Steps to an Effective Elevator Pitch

As a real estate investors or just about anyone with a small business, you need a good effective sales pitch.  When someone asks you what it is that you do, you need to be ready with a quick, concise, easy to understand reply that will tell them what you do and spark thought and further conversation. So what should be in the pitch?  Something that is going to make the person you are speaking with…

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Stop overpaying on materials for your properties!

Stop overpaying on materials for your properties!

We can save you more money at the Home Depot. When you open a Home Depot Pro account that is linked through MAREI to National REIA, you receive at minimum a 2% rebate on everything you spend at the Home Depot every day.   As we have many members who join for this benefit alone, we want to make sure you are set up and getting your rebates. When you join you received information in the Membership…

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Metropolitan Kansas City Small Business and Entrepreneurship Resources

Kansas City Metro Small Business and Entrepreneurship Resources   Start a Small Business Meet with someone to discuss your business idea. Determine if there is a market for your product. Find templates and outlines for business plans. Determine which legal entity is right for you. Find the right registrations, licenses and permits for your industry in your community.   Find Small Business Funding…

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COPR Security is on a Mission to Change the Countries Most Blighted Communities

Have you ever had to deal with vandalism, copper theft or squatters in a vacant house? How did you deal with the problem going forward?

MAREI Business Member COPR Security is the world’s first socially conscious security company, and they are launching today on Indiegogo – a crowdfunding platform for cause based startups. Currently they are partnering with the residents of Manheim Park in Kansas City.  Like may communities located in urban cores, it is full of vacant and blighted properties that seem to be a magnet for copper…

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10 Ways to Find Private Lenders and Do More Deals

"I don't want to pay the fees the Hard Money Lender's charge, what are some other options for funding my deals?"

At the MAREI meeting (that’s our local real estate investment association here in the Kansas City area) we were talking about using Private Partners or Private Lenders during the networking both the planned networking before the meeting and at the meeting after the meeting.  If you are not going to your local REIA group and taking part in both the planned events and the meetings after the…

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