All Forum Posts by: Joe Mueller

Thanks @Mark F. and HI To @Anyssa Volarath!!

Happy to set up a zoom call or sit down when social distancing is a thing of the past!

Take care and stay safe!

Thanks for the kind words @Jonathan Klemm! Our next meetup is this Tuesday! Come on by! www.iesmeeting.com

Thanks @Mark F..  @Kelvin Hicks let me know how I can help

Thanks @Mark F. we missed you at meetup last night!

@dustin 

@Dustin Harder feel free to reach out or call our office directly 

Thanks @Mark F. !!

@Lou Gonzales @Mark Faustrum thanks for the mention.

Our title company can dry close but Typically that just means funds aren’t wired in yet. So i would need more details because it’s an odd request.

If LOU you need a double close to have an end buyer fund a deal, we do those every day.

We wouldn’t intentionally have closing without the money with intent to wait for it as at that point your just waiting for a wire and if the buyer didn’t have funds ready chances are it would get rescheduled until the money could be sent.

that said, there’s plenty of times that docs are signed at the closing table by all parties and the wire or money hasn’t hit yet and in those cases no one gets their check until the money hits the title company escrow account.

@Lou Gonzales what are you looking to accomplish?

cool, love to see you out!

@Ryan ODonnell yeah I can see why you'd say that.  Based on doing meetups for quite a few years what I learned was that if you don't put a price on it, there's no value to attend it.  We charge $10 we get more people.

In the past I've done everything from evening events with free food and drinks (about $100-150+ depending on food and drink) to renting 100 person occupancy basements in restaurants in schaumburg for $1200 a night with food included with sponsors paying $200-300 each to cover the cost (including me paying my $200 or so as well) and over time it seemed like charging a small door fee, regardless of what you get at meeting, increases attendance and the quality of "investor attendees."  More people actually doing things than tire kickers we will call it.

Of course I am not an event planner, and I'm sure there's always a better way... and I am open to new ideas, including location/cost/topics and general management of the event.

Last 2 times I hosted a "coffee and cashflow event" I spent around $80 on coffee, donuts, bagels, and the ancillaries that go with it like creamer etc.  

I guess if we were meeting at starbucks and everyone paid on their own way I would agree.  But with 10 people crowded around a busy starbucks it doesn't seem very conducive to what I think we are trying to achieve....

Of course I'm open to any opinions and thoughts... Do you think the $10 scares attendees away?

@Martin Neal just paint them gray. My guys prefer Benjamin Moore in a semi gloss sheen