Why Now Is the Best Time to Join KREIA

Any time you decide to join KREIA is a good time to do it. If you're a new investor, or someone who wants to be, what you learn through KREIA can propel you toward financial freedom. If you're already investing, the networking opportunities you'll find in KREIA are golden.

But NOW is the BEST time to join KREIA, and here's why:

• Because we're a little over a month out from sending our mailing list of active KREIA members to the printing house we use to produce our annual directory. If you're on that list, you'll receive your copy of our 2026 Member Directory & Resource Guide soon. And we only mail them out once a year. (If you're not on the list because you join after the mailing, you'll need to show up at a main meeting to claim your copy.)
• Your membership includes your invitation to attend our monthly L.O.T.S. programs — to Learn On The Site. We host 10 of them a year. It's like going behind the scenes of your favorite house-flipping TV show, except that the houses are in your own back yard here in Louisville, and the flippers may be people you already know. Or WILL know once you join KREIA and network with them.
       You'll get to visit local flip houses, walk through them, see all the finishes, and study the investors' numbers. You'll learn what it REALLY takes to profitably renovate a house to flip or turn into a rental. You'll see the true costs of material and labor in Louisville today. And during L.O.T.S. we feed you a box lunch worth $10 or more.
• Your membershop includes a monthly newsletter full of educational information and ads from investor-friendly businesses that offer products and services just for real estate entrepreneurs. Members also have access to past newsletters going back to 2014.
• Your membership includes access to videos from past KREIA events. (We're catching up on posting videos, but there's a back catalog of members-only videos from dozens of educational main meetings, L.O.T.S. events, Lunch & Learn meetups, workshops, and more.)

If you join KREIA right now, for only $125/year, you'll be getting SO MUCH value — you'll get $100 in free lunches at L.O.T.S. events alone! And that's before we even get to the other benefits, which include deep discounts at Home Depot, and also rebates from Home Depot that could pay for your KREIA membership many times over.

It's like WE'RE PAYING YOU to join KREIA to learn how to become financially free through real estate, right here in Kentuckiana.

KREIA was established in 1978. For more than 40 years it has guided and grown real estate entrepreneurs. There are many quiet millionaires in our group who attribute their success to what they learned in KREIA, and through the connections they've made in KREIA.

There are many more people in KREIA who, while not millionaires (or not yet), have reached financial freedom: their investments pay for, or more than pay for, their monthly expenses. We know people who joined KREIA less than 4 years ago who have already reached financial freedom. You'd be surprised at how few rental properties it takes to reach this stage.

What these financially free investors have in common is that they implement what KREIA teaches. They don't just listen and watch, or treat what KREIA offers as mere infotainment. They DO. They put the education KREIA offers into action.

And KREIA members do so much good for the community. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenburg has said that Louisville has a housing shortage to the tune of 36,000 housing units! Guess who does the lion's share of building new affordable housing? Guess who turns vacant and abandoned houses back into safe and comfortable homes for area residents? We do! We investors and entrepreneurs.

Q&A With Nan Upton: Past President Shares Journey

Nan Upton started out as a teacher, and in her time on KREIA's board and as KREIA President (2005 - 2006), she was able to help others learn how to use real estate investments as a vehicle for reaching financial freedom.

We sat down to lunch with Nan one day in 2024 and plied her with many questions, which she graciously answered. Her journey as a single mother working hard to provide for her children — and navigating the '80s and '90s as a woman competing, and winning, in what many considered a man's game — is an inspirational one.

She has many tips and life lessons to share. And she describes how medical crises bookended the most active period in her investing career.

If you're a KREIA member currently logged into your account, you can read the full interview here.

Code Enforcement Lien Waivers? Louisville Is Doing It!

Investors, have you been frustrated in your attempts to purchase and renovate vacant and abandoned properties? By code enforcement liens that can run into the tens of thousands of dollars?

Start your engines, because Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg has launched a code enforcement lien waiver pilot program for investors who rehab vacant houses for resale or for rent. Are there rules? Yes, a few.

Watch this video interview with the Mayor and KREIA President John Mays to find out more about the program, how to put in an application, and get ready to help the Mayor reach his objective of rehabilitating "hundreds and hundreds and hundreds" of houses!

KREIA Co-Founder Noble Roberts, 1925-2025

KREIA was founded in 1978 by three men — Noble Roberts, Gene Dyson, and Rue McFarland. Noble was named our first president. From KREIA's beginning, with about 12 members, we have grown strong to over 800 members, and more join every day.

We would like to thank Noble Roberts for leading us, inspiring us, and for helping so many men and women learn how to invest in real estate. Following his example, many of us have reached financial freedom, allowing us to secure our families' futures. And we'd like to thank him for showing us how to provide safe housing for so many other families.

Noble lived 99 abundant years of service to his country and his community. He was a soldier in WWII, a professor of biology, and a leader in his church.

Noble Lafayette Roberts, of Shelbyville, Kentucky, died on Sunday, January 19, 2025, at the age of 99, just a few months shy of reaching 100 years old.  Noble was born June 10, 1925, in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Please see his full obituary here.

Help the Children: Help the Home of the Innocents

The Home of the Innocents is a Louisville organization that takes care of abused, neglected, and medically fragile children. Even though we presented our annual check to the Home at our Holiday Party, the need for our assistance continues. Please make a much-needed gift to the Home through our fundraising page. (It's tax-deductible for you!) Or by purchasing something the children need that's mentioned on their Wish List.