Best REI conference you’ve attended?

[Renee I.]

Hello friends,

I have seen a few different ads for entrepreneurship & real estate investing conferences on social media. 

If you have attended a good one- which one was it? 

What was the theme throughout?
What did you like about it?

Thanks!

[Dan H.]

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I have been to 3 BPCon.  I liked San Diego and Cancun (even though Cancun was unorganized and weather did not help).  Orlando was too big for me. I fear Las Vegas will also be too big.

I attended 2024 MTR summit.  I felt it was mostly a raw raw to get you to sign up for mentoring by the organizer.  It did seem I was in the minority and that virtually all others liked the conference.  By the way 1) I still get emails trying to sell the mentoring 2) at the conference we were told all slides would be made available which I took as available free.  They then sold the charts.  I would have shot photos of key charts except I thought the charts were going to be provided at no cost.  Organizer is all about getting dollars from the attendee.  I do not have same feel for BPCon and BPCon is far better value (more sessions, more perks, more vendors, more perks).  

for females, my wife has gone to 2 InvestHer conferences and has enjoyed both.  You may need to be a member. by the way if looking for a honey mama (ie motivated, financially well off girlfriend/wife), there may not be a better source anywhere.   Hundreds of successful women of all ages all located at the same location.  The last location had InvestHer and WIRE (women in real estate) having their conferences at the same location at the same time.  There were so many women that the hotel Public men’s restrooms were converted to female (I almost blindly walked into one as the day before it was male.  I could not have been the only one as they later put a pathway sign in addition to changing the existing gender signs).  If I needed to use the restroom, I needed to go back to My hotel room. 

Good luck

 Would love to take my team this year to BPCON, what was the most value you got out of all 3 conferences you went to? I think the networking value alone would probably be #1

Networking is definitely highest on the value list. I was under contract on a luxury cabin that fell out of escrow. If we had purchased it, the co-host would have been someone I met at an STR based breakout session at BPCon 2024. Similarly, my agent in Emerald Coast I met at BPCon 2023.

the next most value is going to vary by what areas in RE you are investing but in general the opening and closing keynote speakers are good.  Cancun was not as good as the other conferences but still worth it.  

Enroll in the sessions that are of most interest to you.  Some will be duds, most will be pretty good.  Some will be good enough that by themselves they may justify the cost (seeing I drive to Las Vegas, my cost is a bit reduced).

Someone indicated there is a picture of me somewhere in the bp2025 material. I have not seen it in the material but also have not looked for it. The person sent me the picture. From the picture, it looks like I might be checking in at BPCon 2024  

most important is to have fun