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Another month... another meetup! If you're interested in meeting more like-minded local investors for networking, or are simply in town and interested in meeting up to play a low-stakes board game which just might teach you a valuable lesson to carry into your own investing strategy, look no further than our meetup on the 2nd Saturday of each month!

Pre-register here: via AZREIA's website... or just show up!

Plenty of parking available in front or rear of the building. Enter through main door (top level) or through open door on south-eastern tip on the bottom level.

DM me with any questions: this is a pretty low-key event, so you can come as you are

Happy Spooky Season, fellow investors! I hope you are all enjoying the holiday festivities, World Series baseball and the cooler fall weather.

With the turn into another month here is your usual reminder about the upcoming local meetup we will be hosting at the Keller Williams building near River & Campbell... Having completely covered the foundation of your investing journey (niche/strategy, financing & how to find deals) we now turn our attention to the most actionable part of real estate: how to analyze deals on Buy & Hold properties.

November's meetup will dive deep into key financial metrics like cap rates, cash flow and price-to-rent ratio, as well as the economic underpinnings of each to help explain why many successful B&H investors end up being spreadsheet wizards. While the raw ROI metrics are helpful in deciding how to best focus your attention as an investor, this meeting will also be packed full of actionable tips and time-tested wisdom to get your REI goals off the ground and hurtling forward.

Pre-Register here: registration link through AZREIA

The in-person portion will be held at the Keller Williams building near River/Campbell. As we always do, we will begin promptly at 6:00pm & run until somewhere in the 7:30-8:00pm time frame. There will also be a virtual streaming of the meetup via Zoom, so if you'd prefer to stay home you may feel encouraged to dial in.

See you at the meeting!

Calling all rookie investors, wholesalers and direct-to-seller marketers in the Tucson area: this next month's meetup of the New Investor Subgroup of AZREIA in Tucson is all about FINDING THE DEAL!

Having recently discussed different areas (via zip code data) of metro Tucson and classified each according to the ABCD scale of real estate, we can now FINALLY turn our attention to getting out into the public domain and finding the deal.

Topic 1 will be "How to Find Leads in your Target Market", and will explore the twin approaches of prospecting and marketing to begin to fill your Deal Funnel with real estate leads. Come to this discussion with an open mind to discover which avenue(s) you are most comfortable with to find deals and to put yourself in front of a motivated seller... without spending a fortune on unnecessary "guru courses"

After a short networking break, we will welcome up Wendy Reuter from our local partner Good Steward Lending to discuss our second topic of the evening: "How to Fund the Deal (using creative & traditional strategies)". Come with any financing-related questions you've ever had about investing in real estate and soak up the wealth of knowledge Good Steward brings to the AZREIA group as our preferred, local financing partner.

Pre-Register here: registration link through AZREIA

The in-person portion will be held at the Keller Williams building near River/Campbell. As we always do, we will begin promptly at 6:00pm & run until somewhere in the 7:30-8:00pm time frame. There will also be a virtual streaming of the meetup via Zoom, so if you'd prefer to stay home you may feel encouraged to dial in.

Hit me up in the comments section or via a direct message here on BP with any questions about the meetup, and I hope to see you there next month!

Are you curious to know more about local investor "in-person" meetups here in Tucson?

Interested in hanging out with like-minded investors for networking & sharing ideas?

Have you ever played Robert & Kim Kiyosaki's CashFlow board game... or have you even heard about the game?

Whatever you situation, you are invited! Here is your monthly event post for the newest Tucson-based subgroup of AZREIA: the Arizona Real Estate Investor's Association. As we typically do, we will be meeting up at the Keller Williams Building near River/Campbell on the 2nd Saturday of the month to play a round of the game, and participate in general networking.

Pre-register here: via AZREIA's website... or just show up!

Plenty of parking available in front or rear of the building. Enter through main door (top level) or through open door on south-eastern tip on the bottom level.

@Ann George 

The New Investor Subgroup meets on the first Monday of every month, and so we plan to meet up later this evening at 6pm.

Here is the link to this month's event here on BP: September Meetup

As August folds into September, the time has come once again to pass along your personal invitation to join in on the next meetup of the Tucson New Investors Subgroup of AZREIA.

Having last month covered the foundation of your investing journey (by establishing your buying niche & strategy) we now turn our attention to the next BIG QUESTION which stops newbie investors in their tracks: which area(s) should I be looking at?

If you are new to the Tucson area, unsure what type of investing strategy is most effective to use in a given area of town, or are simply interested to hear how a real estate agent might categorize every area of Tucson (segmented by zip codes) to an investor client, this meetup is for you!

Building on last month's topic, we will spend the first 20-30 minutes breaking down the top 25 zip codes in the Tucson Metro area most relevant to investors, as well as demographic and economic data to help you better understand your end buyer/tenant's spending power and motivations.

After a short networking break where we will practice our investor "elevator pitch" (in-person only) we will dive into the Elephant In The Room for far too many newer investors: the discipline of follow up. We'll explore why continuous follow-up is necessary in today's investing market, why a real estate CRM (client resource management) application is a must-have for anyone looking to build off-market lead flow, as well as several foundational marketing principles to keep in mind when marking directly to motivated sellers.

We we normally do, we will be meeting up at the (newly refurnished) Keller Williams Building near River/Campbell from 6-8pm on the first Monday of the month. If you are unable to attend in-person, there will also be a Zoom option to attend virtually: pants not required!

Pre-register here: via AZREIA's website

Hope to see several of you at the meetup!

Are you curious to know more about local investor "in-person" meetups here in Tucson?

Interested in hanging out with like-minded investors for networking & sharing ideas?

Have you ever played Robert & Kim Kiyosaki's CashFlow board game... or have you even heard about the game?

Whatever you situation, you are invited! Here is your monthly event post for the newest Tucson-based subgroup of AZREIA: the Arizona Real Estate Investor's Association. As we typically do, we will be meeting up at the Keller Williams Building near River/Campbell on the 2nd Saturday of the month to play a round of the game, and participate in general networking.

Pre-register here: via AZREIA's website

Here is your monthly event post for the newest Tucson-based subgroup of AZREIA: the Arizona Real Estate Investor's Association.

For more info on the subgroup, the board game itself, or to register for the meetup click here: AZREIA Event Page

There are two *slight* changes to highlight for this month's game meetup:

1) This will be the very first AZREIA meetup in the brand new Keller Williams building in the Cambric Corporate Center (formerly Joesler Village Shopping Center)! After a messy move-in process, the new space is much easier to find, has a lot more parking, has effective interior heating/cooling and is an all-around upgrade to our prior location. The location is across the street (south of River Rd, but still west of Campbell), and is the western-most building in the complex, just east of the post office.

2) While we generally meet up on the 2nd Saturday of the month (i.e. the Saturday after our New Investor Meetup and before the "Main" Monthly Meetup at TAR), I actually will be out of town the weekend of August 12th. For that reason only we are meeting up the weekend prior to our New Investor Subgroup meetup. This also serves as a "low tech" way to make sure the space will be ready for us the following week.

This is a very casual meetup: feel free to pop by if you are in town, even if it's a few minutes late. You can join in at any time, or simply stop by to network with a few like-minded folks while learning a rather surprising amount of information about how to read asset & income statements.

Greeting BP community... it's that time of the year again! If you are a rookie real estate investor based in Tucson, AZ and are unfamiliar with AZREIA: the Arizona Real Estate Investors Association... this is the perfect opportunity to join us for some amazing content on how to get start investing right here in the Old Pueblo.

This month we are returning to basics: why it makes sense to get started investing now (even in today's crazy housing market) and how to develop your investing niche (what you buy) and strategy (how you buy it). We will lay out an argument in favor of beginning your real estate investing journey no matter your goals or current skillset, as well as to overview several different strategies/ideas to get you started. Even if you're already decided on your investing strategy for 2023/24, I hope you will find this month's content accessible and motivating to go out and crush it.

Register here via AZREIA's Event Calendar

I am also pleased to announce that this will be our first meetup at the brand new Keller Williams building in the Cambric Corporate Center (formerly Joesler Village Shopping Center)! After a messy move-in process, the new space is much easier to find, has a lot more parking, has effective interior heating/cooling and is an all-around upgrade to our prior location. The location is across the street (south of River Rd, but still west of Campbell), and is the western-most building in the complex, just east of the post office. And, as usual, we will be simulcasting the content via Zoom for those of you who choose to attend virtually. Please pre-register online to ensure you have the correct login information for the online link.

If you've ever want to get started investing in Tucson but "don't know what you don't know", or if you've looking for a mindset shift to shock you out of Analysis Paralysis, consider spending your evening with us: it'll change your life!

Here is your monthly event post for the newest Tucson-based subgroup of AZREIA: the Arizona Real Estate Investor's Association.

As we now do every month on the 2nd Saturday, we will be meeting up at the Keller Williams building (near River/Campbell) at 10am for a live board game round of Rich Dad's CashFlow Board Game. 

This will in fact be the FINAL MEETUP at the existing 1745 River Rd location: we will begin meeting across the street at the new Keller Williams building at 1730 E River Rd, Tucson, AZ 85718 beginning in August 2023.

For more info on the subgroup, the board game itself, or to register for the meetup click here:

AZREIA Event Page

If you are in town after the 4th and would like to hang out, feel free to stop by and check it out. It should be a chill, small group: great for networking & learning about how to pursue FI in your own life.