MNREIA.com Minnesota Real Estate Investors Association

I’ll start off with a short article on MNREIA today and someday I’ll write a long one, but I just want to spread the word about this club. First off I have been doing to this club before the beginning. I went to the meeting over 1 year before this group was officially called MNREIA. I started going with around 30 people in attendance. Other than the attorney and president Mike Jacka, only one or two people I know of go their on occassion, many people have gone for 2+ years though. This club today has an email list I believe over 1600-2000. For the past 2 years has consistantly had 250+ show up per month. Except for some really bad weather days, that many always show up. There are a few vendor tables, and a table to put your fliers, and business cards. This club is great for networking. Also it’s great for the first 20 minutes to tell about what properties you have available and what clients you have or properties you are looking for. That’s called have’s and wants. You will meet people from 20 to 70 years old at this club, it’s great for networking. The people at this club have anywhere from 1 day of experience to 15 years experience. I would say most people have 1 year of experience on average. Each month has a different speaker , most are national speakers and when they don’t speak, the president Mike Jacka will do a topic or will do a Q&A with attorney Tom Fafinksi from Benepartum Law Group, both of who I recommend.

I’ve enjoyed watching this group grow, and many of the investors a long the way. I appreciate all of those I have met along the way, and look forward to meeting some of you at the real estate club someday. It’s on the first Tuesday of every month. Here is the address:

Phone:	(651) 779-6446
E-mail:	info@mnreia.com
Location:	1330 Industrial Blvd Sheraton Four Points Hotel (612) 331-1900
City, State, Zip:	Minneapolis, MN 55413
When:	1st Tuesday of Every Month
Time:	7:00 pm - Registration at 5:30pm

The map is located here: http://www.mnreia.com/public/calendar/MAP.html

Here is an example of upcoming monthly meetings:

May 6, 2008: Secrets of The Short Sale - Curtis Brooks

June 3, 2008: Q & A - Mike Jacka & Thomas Fafinski

July 1, 2008: Selling in a Slow Market - Mike Jacka

August 5, 2008: Entity Selection and Asset Protection - Thomas Fafinski

September 2, 2008: How to use the internet Affectively - Mike Jacka

My website RonOrr.com is kept up to date with all of the meetings I’ve attended, which is basically 5 years running where I missed about 1 or 2, so I have made almost 60+ in a row. Here are the past meetings I’ve attended as typed by me, I don’t remember which month on some of those beginning years. We had different locations in the beginning, but have had the same location for awhile now.

MNREIA Real Estate Club www.MNREIA.com

November 2002	Landlord and rentals St. Louis Park
December 2002	Tom Fafinski LLC
January 2003	?-I don’t remember
February 2003	?-I don’t remember
March 2003	Landective Rex Maroney
April 2003	Mortgage Companies and Loans
May 2003	Brooke Hansen Offensive Tax reduction
June 2003	Mike Jacka & Tom Fafinski Q @ A
July 2003	Jeff Wirth How to become a billionaire in real estate
Aug 2003	Mike Jacka Land Trusts
Sep 2003	Kingdom Exteriors Jeff Robinson
Oct 2003	Robyn Thompson MNREIA 2 hours
Nov 2003	Exit Strategies Mike Jacka
Dec 2003	REI Q @ A Mike Jacka
Jan 2004	How to use IRA’s for real estate investing - Todd Grill / Entrust Midwest
Feb 2004	Contract for Deed/Note Buying Joe Le/Mike Jacka
March 2004	Closings and Title Insurance Title One
April 2004	Q & A Tom Fafinski Real Estate Attorney
May 2004	Motivated Sellers Scott Rister
June 2004	Analyzing Rental Property Melissa Koska
July 2004	Options Barry Abraham
Aug 2004	Foreclosure Laws MRPI / Q & A Tom Fafinski Real Estate Attorney
Sept 2004	Dave Lindahl Apartment buildings
Oct 2004	Lead-Base Paint Judy Adams
Nov 2004	Exit Strategies Mike Jacka Lease Options, Wrap-around mortgages, C/D’s
Dec 2004	Q&A Mike Jacka and Tom Fafinski Creative Real Estate and other topics.
Jan. 2005	How to Estimate ARV Mike Jacka
Feb. 2005	Maralogix Skip Tracing and Pre-Foreclosure info Steve Reichel
Mar. 2005	Q&A Mike Jacka and Tom Fafinski Creative Real Estate and other topics.
April 2005	Pete Youngs Cost Effective Fixups for investors and contractors
May 2005	How to buy properties with your IRA Todd Grille
June 2005	Q&A Mike Jacka and Tom Fafinski Creative Real Estate and other topics.
July 2005	Foreclosures Paul Wells
Aug 2005	Wholesaling Chuck Smith
Sept 2005	Business Structures Tom Fafinski
Oct 2005	Foreclosure Process Mike Jacka
Nov 2005	Finding Motivated Sellers Mike Jacka
Dec 2005	Q & A Mike Jacka and Tom Fafinski
Jan 2006	Using the internet for real estate Mike Jacka
Feb 2006	PACtrust Land Trust Bill Gatten
March 2006	1031 Exchanges Kevin Thoresen & Jeff Peterson
April 2006	Q and A Mike Jacka and Tom Fafinski
May 2006	The 5-Day Sale George Cappony
June 2006	Land Trust Mike Jacka
August 2006	Tom Kish Cashflowexperts.biz business lines of credit
Sept 2006	Q & A Tom Fafinski and Mike Jacka
Oct 2006	Property Management Pat O’ Kane
Nov 2006	Robyn Thompson
Dec 2006	Question and Answer Mike Jacka and Tom Fafinski
Jan 2007	Estimating Repairs Mike Jacka
Feb 2007	Wendy Patton Lease Options
March 2007	Ron Aho CPA tax strategies for investors
April 2007	Than Merrill marketing for rehabbers
May 2007	May 1, 2007: Buying Foreclosures The Right Way! - Paul Wells
June 2007	Question and Answer Mike Jacka and Tom Fafinski
July 2007	Working with Contractors - Paul Esajian
Aug 2007	Buy and Sell Properties - Larry Goins
Sep 2007	Using IRA’s to Invest in Real Estate. Todd Grille
Oct 2007	Minnesota Foreclosure Laws Mike Jacka
Nov 2007	Private Lending Alan Cowgill
Dec 2007	Q & A Mike Jacka and Tom Fafinski
Jan 2008	mn short sale Process Mike Jacka
Feb 2008	Subject-To’s Bob Meister
March 2008	Land Trusts Mike Jacka
April 2008	Simultaneous closings, short sale closings Jaren and Mike Jacka

Also if you show up some day to the club, I’d like to meet you , just look for Ron Orr, Jr. I will be often out for drinks at Joe Senser’s down the road after the meeting around 9:45 or later.

Membership info is here:

http://mnreia.usinternet.com/pages.cfm?PageID=26

Here is the membership sign up page

http://mnreia.usinternet.com/login_sub_select.cfm?PageID=16

You can even check out daily property leads here:

http://mnreia.usinternet.com/classifieds.cfm?PageID=15

There is a big event coming up in the summer I wouldn’t miss, the value is tremedous, I’ll be there.

http://www.realestatepromo.com/SummerSizzler/index.html

Again I hope to see you at the MNREIA club, there are other clubs in Minnesota for real estate MREE, HRA, and some others, but I believe for newer residential investors MNREIA I believe is the biggest.

Please feel free to email me at ron@Minnesotainvestors.com at anytime.

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