Rhode Island Real Estate Investors Group

Join Us! Day: See our schedule
Time: 6:00-9:00 PM

Place:
The Hilton Garden Inn
1 Thurber Street
Warwick, RI 02886

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Fee: First meeting is free.

See dues on home page
Typical meeting format:

6:00-6:30 PM

Beginner session
6:30-7:15 PM

Discuss questions and issues among ourselves. If there is time we look at different ways that money can be made in real estate.
7:15-8:15 PM

Speaker and questions.

8:30 PM
Final Announcements - Adjourn

8:30-9:00
Optional Networking

9:15PM+
All are welcome to join us for coffee at a local restaurant

Our schedule for 2012

Tuesday	1/24/2012
Thursday	2/16/2012
Thursday	3/15/2012
Thursday	4/19/2012
Thursday	5/24/2012
Thursday	6/21/2012
Thursday	7/19/2012
Thursday	8/16/2012
Thursday	9/20/2012
Thursday	10/18/2012
Thursday	11/29/2012
Thursday	12/20/2012

The next meeting will be
Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012

6-6:45 Craig Picard and Don Goff will continue with their popular sessions specifically designed for beginners. Tuesday will be “How to have a Smooth Closing when buying and selling real estate”.

Have you ever walked out of a closing whether you were buying a property or selling one and your head was spinning? Did you wish you knew more so that the closing would have gone better and you would have understood what was going on? Have you ever waited in a closing as the HUD gets changed 3 or 4 times? Craig and Don will give you the insider tips on how to have a smooth closing so that you leave the closing with the most amount of money and waste the least amount of time.

6:45-7:10 Announcements, upcoming seminars, questions, deals that are available, and what’s going on in the marketplace.

7:15-7:30
How to title your real estate - You can own real estate as an LLC, partnership, trust, corporation or on your own. The list goes on and on. We're looking at the benefits and negatives of different ways to hold real estate.

7:30-8:30
Member Rouben Balagian, perhaps the most active contractor I know, will speak on construction, including the importance of small details and how they can inflate a budget, importance of pre project planning, changes in permitting and fire code, issues arising from new insulation requirements, unexpected costs that arise from lead and damaged main water line connections, pitfalls of construction loans, and loaning money to contractors, as well as any other construction related issues the group would like me to discuss.

8:30 PM - Adjourn.
We have use of the room until 10pm for conversations and networking.

Upcoming:

February 16, 2012 Networking – This is probably one of our most popular meetings each year.

March 15, 2012-Short sales with Dan Balkun. Dan is a Master Facilitator with the law firm of D'Amico and Burchfield and he specializes in the short sale/loss mitigation industry. He has trained over 15,000 real estate agents across the US and he has been a key contributor in creating the short sale attorney model. He’ll point out to us the deals that can be had buying short sales. Email: db@dblawri.com phone: 401.454.1212

April 19, 2012 Greg Skoutas will offer insights and opportunities in today’s commercial lending environment. Greg is the Commercial Loan Manger at Newport Federal Savings Bank. skoutasg@newportfederal.com 401-847-5500 x1612

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We are a networking and educational group. We are not looking to sell you anything and attendance at the first meeting is free. You don’t have to make a reservation and whatever your level of experience you are welcome to attend. Need more information? Call Rick at (401) 640-4261 or email rcohn4@cox.net

The Hilton Garden Inn (4 blocks from the airport)

1 Thurber Street, Warwick, RI.

Phone 401-734-9600

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