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Monthly Newsletter for KREIA Members
Vol 07-19 July 2019 President’s Letter
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Paid Advertising Rates
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Googlefy Your Life: Heidi Fore shows us how to save time and money using Google’s tools
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Welcome, New Members!
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Correction
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Government Affairs
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Mike Butler: Ignorance of the law 6 is no get-out-of-jail-free card KREIA Election Results: Parliatarian Michelle Rawn reports Infographic: Nina Musgrave looks at local housing data
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Be a Skip Tracer: Renee Buster shows us how in this Q&A KREIA Photos
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L.O.T.S. Recap: Joe Worth & 20 Kim Frei tackle Beechwood home National REIA News Roundup
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KREIA Members! For my final President’s letter I want to leave you all with some things I’ve learned over the years investing in real estate and volunteering my time for KREIA. I joined in May of 2008, roughly a month after I moved to Louisville from north of Indianapolis, just as the “Great Recession” was taking hold of our Eric George country, although at the time I had no clue just how bad it would get. I remember being excited to find a local group of real estate investors to network with, and also nervous going to that first meeting and not knowing anyone there in a room full of 200+ people! This was back when we still met at the old Masterson’s building on the corner of South 3rd St & Cardinal Boulevard, which was demolished later to make way for what is now Cardinal Towne student apartments at UofL. My girlfriend at the time (now my wife, Christina) and I walked in and really had no clue of what to expect, but we grabbed our food and found a table to eat at, and luckily we picked a table with some really nice folks who got us acquainted with how KREIA works and what to expect at the meetings. I honestly don’t recall what the topic was that night, but I was just glad to meet other like-minded people who were interested in real estate and were willing to share with us! We met at least twenty or thirty investors that night, including Jay Bowman, Ed Gibson, Dick Vreeland, Simone Mancuso, and Duffy Ford, among many others, and I consider them all good friends to this day. With these friends and many others at KREIA, we’ve networked together, done business together, and leveraged each other’s knowledge on various topics to help us all grow as investors and entrepreneurs, and that’s exactly what KREIA is all about and why I decided to eventually run for the board a few years later! From the beginning I knew I wanted to get into rental properties, flip houses, and do wholesaling, but I didn’t exactly know where to start. KREIA definitely helped with that! Continued on Page 26
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