Hosting an REI meetup

[Lori Webb]

Has anyone hosted a local REI meetup for interested investors, could you give me some best tips on how to get people there and do it well?

Wanting to build a good core group of local Investors.

[Jerryll Noorden]

Originally posted by @Lori Webb:

Has anyone hosted a local REI meetup for interested investors, could you give me some best tips on how to get people there and do it well?

Wanting to build a good core group of local Investors.

Before I say anything I hate REI groups. I think they are useless, and never got any value from going there other than being in a alcoholics annonimous meeting where everyone is bragging how many doors they have.

Now BECAUSE I hate them, I can give you really good info why I hate them, so you can address it.

So, most people that go to these meetings are beginners. (For the reason I mentioned), or people that can make money off such meetings (lenders, wholesalers that do things completely wrong, because if they were doing it right they wouldn't be there trying to offload a bad deal, their deal would be gone in hours).

So the way I think you get a solid group, is to make sure that you 1 provide actual value for going there, and 2, let people know you WILL provide value if they went.  No one will go if they think it will be just an other bleh meeting.

Then, don't be so monotone. Every-single-month-the-same-thing.

Talk about thing OTHER than your personal interests. I have gone to meetings and it is all the same. Invite an expert in an interesting topic every month. Talk about wholesaling methods and how to's one month. Talk SEO the other, talk DMM tricks and tips, talk taxes, talk flipping house and the things to watch out for.

Doing so you will get a diverse group, and all these individual diverse groups will be overlapping so there is all ways interest and people expand their knowledge. It will be a well diverse group.

Go out on fieldtrips, to a flip in progress. Explain how to make offers.

Have a Facebook group, have a website.

This is everything current groups are not!

May the Jerryll be with you. Always!