2020 Michigan Landlord & Real Estate Investor Conference & Expo Guide

CONFERENCE GUIDE February 27-29 | Downtown Grand Rapids @ DeVos Place CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

FEATURING 8 NATIONAL SPEAKERS!

DONNA BAUER

VENA JONES-COX

JOHN BURLEY

DIXIE DECKER

ROBYN THOMPSON

JIM AYDELOTTE

SCOTT MEYERS

TONY YOUNGS

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8 N AT I O N A L S P E A K E R S DONNA BAUER • BUYING NOTES: THE FASTEST, EASIEST, SAFEST WAY TO MAKE HUGE PROFITS IN REAL ESTATE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 10:10AM - 12:10PM • RIVER OVERLOOK E - F Note buying is a super-hot investment strategy and Donna knows how to do it—and do it right. She’s packaged her system into a comprehensive and motivating course, The NoteBuyer’s Master Guide, which she now uses as a way to share her success on buying real estate notes and discounted mortgages with the world. Learn how Donna’s tactics can help you take your real estate investment to the next level!

VENA JONES-COX • QUICKLY GENERATE MASSIVE CASH FLOW BY JUMPSTARTING YOUR WHOLESALING BUSINESS! THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 1:10PM - 3:10PM • RIVER OVERLOOK E - F Wholesaling is by far the simplest, quickest, lowest risk, and lowest hassle way to make money in real estate—when you know the right strategies for finding properties, attracting buyers, and getting to the closing. The Real Estate Goddess Vena JonesCox will teach you these steps and more so you have the tools to boost your wholesaling career!

JOHN BURLEY • THE SECRETS OF RAISING PRIVATE MONEY | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 3:30PM - 5:30PM RIVER OVERLOOK E - F Want to do deals with other people’s money? John will share his seven simple steps anyone can follow to get money in your pocket now. He’ll share his secrets of raising private money and you’ll learn how to get paid up front, during and at the end of the deal and techniques to help you take control of your financial future using real estate!

DIXIE DECKER • INCREASE YOUR CASH FLOW BY 4X IN STUDENT HOUSING! | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 10:10AM - 12:10PM • RIVER OVERLOOK E - F Dixie will teach you how you can get 4 TIMES your cash flow by investing in student housing! She’ll show how to pay market value and still double, triple or quadruple the average investors single-family cash flow. No need to “steal houses” in order to make a deal work. In fact, Dixie will show you how deals can be made WITHOUT buying the investment property, effectively removing any limit on how many deals can be done.

ROBYN THOMPSON • RENOVATING FOR MASSIVE PROFITS & PASSIVE WEALTH BUILDING | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 1:10PM - 4:00PM & 4:20PM - 5:30PM • RIVER OVERLOOK E - F Robyn, “The Queen of Rehab”, has integrated her highly successful rehab program into a new buy and hold investment strategy—providing more flexibility for rehabbing for flips or for holds. Robyn will teach you how to map out all of the hurdles, pitfalls and paydays when renovating for profits and building passive wealth!

JIM AYDELOTTE • PUT $5K-$10K IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IN 30 DAYS USING LEASE OPTION STRATEGIES | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH, 10:10AM - 12:10PM • RIVER OVERLOOK E - F Don’t have a ton of cash to get into real estate investing? Need a way to invest in more properties without going to the bank or hard-money lenders? If you answered yes, then Jim Aydelotte’s investing strategies are just for you. Jim teaches how anyone can put $5,000-$15,000 in their bank account in 30 days or less, using simple techniques—without shelling out huge amounts of cash. He’ll show you how to structure win-win deals in today’s market with lease options.

SCOTT MEYERS • MASTERCLASS: HOW TO ACHIEVE TOTAL SELF-STORAGE WORLD DOMINATION | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH, 1:10PM - 3:10PM • RIVER OVERLOOK E - F Scott Meyers is the nation’s leading self-storage investor. He has bought, developed, and sold over 4,200 units and over 4 million square feet of commercial and self-storage properties. Scott will share the latest strategies in the hottest sector of commercial real estate—self-storage! He’ll teach you how to find undervalued deals (where nobody else is looking!), how to evaluate a self-storage facility and distressed commercial properties to CONVERT to self-storage, how to evaluate a good market for self-storage, how to fund self-storage deals, and more.

TONY YOUNGS • THE HIDDEN MARKET: FINDING DISTRESSED PROPERTIES IN YOUR AREA | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH, 3:30PM - 5:30PM • RIVER OVERLOOK E - F One of the toughest nuts to crack when getting into real estate is finding a property to buy! Finding distressed properties is one of the best ways to make deals happen. Tony has mastered the art of tracking and acquiring properties in every stage of the foreclosure process from pre-foreclosure to REO. He has been perfecting and creating his own unique system, strategies, and techniques for acquiring foreclosure and hidden market properties and can teach you how you can do it too!

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH 7:30 a.m. Registration Opens River Overlook Area (near escalators) 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Exposition Open Check out the offerings of over 50 exhibitors 8:00 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. Breakout Sessions: ▪ Note Buying Panel Discussion (Donna Bauer, Brian Hamrick, Gene Chandler and Kyle Zimpleman) River Overlook C - D ▪ Don’t Do What I Did! (Audience Participation) River Overlook E - F 9:10 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. RPOA Annual Membership Meeting River Overlook E - F 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Meet & Greet with Exhibitors & Sponsors!

10:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Donna Bauer, Buying Notes: The Fastest, Easiest, Safest Way to Make Huge Profits in Real Estate, National Speaker River Overlook E - F 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Lunch & Visit Exhibitors! (concessions available near escalators) 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Ask the Experts, Bring Your Lunch River Overlook C - D 1:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Vena Jones-Cox, Quickly Generate Massive Cash Flow by Jumpstarting Your Wholesaling Business!, National Speaker River Overlook E - F 3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Meet & Greet with Exhibitors & Sponsors!

3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. John Burley, The Secrets of Raising Private Money, National Speaker River Overlook E - F

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH 7:30 a.m. Registration Opens River Overlook Area (near escalators) 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Exposition Open Check out the offerings of over 50 exhibitors 8:00 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. Breakout Sessions: ▪ City of Grand Rapids Get the Lead Out! Grant Program River Overlook A - B ▪ Short-term Rentals Panel Discussion (Kim Post, Gary Hall and Ed Bodman) River Overlook C - D ▪ 50 Ways to Do a Deal River Overlook E - F 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Paul Isely, Economics Professor, GVSU, Real Estate Market and Economic Forecast River Overlook E - F 10:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Dixie Decker, Increase Your Cash Flow by 4x in Student Housing!, National Speaker River Overlook E - F 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Lunch & Visit Exhibitors! (concessions available near escalators) 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Deal Room, Bring Your Lunch River Overlook C - D 1:10 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Robyn Thompson, Renovating for Massive Profits & Passive Wealth Building, Part 1, National Speaker River Overlook E - F 4:00 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. Meet & Greet with Exhibitors & Sponsors!

4:20 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Robyn Thompson, Renovating for Massive Profits & Passive Wealth Building, Part 2, National Speaker River Overlook E - F

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH 7:30 a.m. Registration Opens River Overlook Area (near escalators) 8:00 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. Exposition Open Check out the offerings of over 50 exhibitors 8:00 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. Breakout Sessions: ▪ Online REO Auctions, Casey O’Neill - Auction.com River Overlook A - B ▪ Real Estate Legislative Update (Clay Powell, RPOA of Michigan Director and Tabitha Zimny, Karoub Associates Lobbyist) River Overlook C - D ▪ The Ins and Outs of Commercial Real Estate Investment: Retail, Office, Industrial & Warehousing (Gene Szpeinski, Managing Commercial Broker, Keller Williams RiverTown and Larry Branscombe, Commercial Agent, Keller Williams RiverTown) River Overlook E - F 9:10 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Elizabeth Zeller, Senior Planner, City of Grand Rapids Planning Department, Grand Rapids Real Estate Development Projects 2020 River Overlook E - F 10:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Jim Aydelotte, Put $5k-$10k in Your Bank Account in 30 Days Using Lease Option Strategies, National Speaker River Overlook E - F 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Lunch & Visit Exhibitors! (concessions available near escalators) 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Deal Room, Bring Your Lunch River Overlook C - D 1:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Scott Meyers, Masterclass: How to Achieve Total Self-Storage World Domination, National Speaker River Overlook E - F 3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Meet & Greet with Exhibitors & Sponsors!

3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Tony Youngs, The Hidden Market: Finding Distressed Properties in Your Area, National Speaker River Overlook E - F

SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS A S O F F E B R UA RY 1 3 T H , 2 0 2 0

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Compass Realty Services, LLC Consolidated Electrical Contractors Culver CPA Group Guard Home Warranty Home Trust Direct Indoor Climate Solutions Northwind Financial Corporation NuView Trust Company Rylee's Ace Hardware S&G Properties Shield Insurance Agency

Bay To Bay Building Concepts Compass Property Mangement Five Star Painting of Muskegon & Holland Foundation Specialist Green Block, Inc. LeaseGR Rental Property Management Mercantile Bank of Michigan Modernistic Real Property Management Investmest Solutions River Valley Insurance Agency, Inc. Rockfinch Realty Simple Property Management SPL (Serving Professional Landlords) Westshore Property Management

EXHIBITORS 1lasteye, LLC

The Home Depot

RCB & Associates, LLC

American Woodmark

Junk King Grand Rapids

Risk & Associates

Bath Fitter

LASTBIDrealestate.com

Roof Maxx Technologies

Boathouse Commercial Funding Group

LeafFilter North of Michigan, LLC

Simple Funding Source

Crown Windows

Legal Shield/I.D. Shield

United Bank

DTE Energy

Lighthouse Property Management

United Properties of West Michigan

Grand Slam Investigations

National Real Estate Investors Association

Velo Law

Green Property Management

Northpointe Bank

Williams Distributing

PUBLIC SERVICE TABLES Family Promise of Grand Rapids • Grand Rapids Get the Lead Out! Grant Program • Kent County Housing Commission