Next Meeting:  November 18,  7:00 PM at Jackie’s Restaurant. For November, we’ll take a quick break from the 2010 REIS Investor Meeting Theme , “Evaluating the Deal.”  This month, just in time to make some final adjustments to our tax liability for 2009, we welcome a local CPA with lots of real estate expertise who will give us some tax reduction strategies for what is left of 2009 and looking ahead to 2010.

We’ve discussed the meaning of having a business plan–Thanks to Jeff Miller, with Action Coach Business Coaching, for helping us get focused.  A business plan is a key element to making our real estate investment program profitable.  In December, we’re back on our theme track. We now have to drill down to the type of property, how to find it and how to evaluate whether it fits into our plan.  This is where we’ll pick-up the discussion for November.  Looking forward to January and beyond, we’re going into the numbers–whether a buy and hold or a fast turnover with renovation, we absolutely have to run the numbers.

Here’s your chance to learn how REIS can help you become a successful real estate investor.  If you don’t already know about REIS, the most important thing we can tell you is that our mission is education. We will NOT try to sell you counseling.  We will NOT try to sell you mentoring.  We will ask you to consider joining us and to attend our monthly meetings where you absolutely will walk away from each and every meeting saying, like so many others, “Wow, I learned a lot tonight.”

REIS is an extremely inexpensive source of knowledge and opportunity. We are committed to our mission of education and all the REIS leaders hope to get in return is your confidence should you ever need service from a business represented by our business membership.  Through networking, you will be able to say, “I know someone who I trust to help me with…”  Our business members are all engaged in fields that serve the real estate investor from legal, to mortgage, to management and to all the trades that can fix anything that goes wrong in your properties.  We don’t push our services; we get to know you and we show you, through the education we sponsor, that we are the obvious choice should you need help.  We mention this at this time ONLY to assure you that REIS is here primarily to help make you a smarter real estate investor and secondarily to be a source of contacts for real estate services–again, secondarily.