Our KREIA membership includes many very successful people from a variety of real estate niches, and we'll be bringing some of them front and center to share their secrets of success with you. Come to KREIA in April and learn from Rue McFarland, Katie Crotzer, Mark Hass and Tamara West.

All four of our experts have served on KREIA's board, and two of them are KREIA past presidents. Combined, they represent more than 115 years of investing experience! Start compiling questions now! Ask them the 30,000-foot-view questions, or zero in on what exactly is on your mind at the moment. Run some deals by them. Sound them out on ventures you're not sure about to see if they think they're good ideas.

Rue McFarland got into real estate in 1969 and has done just about everything it is possible to do in investing. He has served as president of GLAR, KREE and KREIA -- which he co-founded. He cur-rently manages more than 100 single-family houses.

Katie Crotzer runs her own brokerage, New Outlook Realty, with offices in Louisville, Shelbyville and, soon, in Florida. She started in commercial construction in 1990 and began investing in real estate in 1992. She owns rental property locally and also in Florida.

Mark Hass owns a brokerage, Real Estate 3000, owns investment property, is a property manager, and works with buyers, sellers and builders. He’s also an REO specialist: For 15 years he’s been marketing and servicing REO properties. Mark is a two-term KREIA past president.

Tamara West started working in loan servicing in 1999, became a mortgage loan originator in 2003, bought her first investment property in 2006, and got her real estate license in 2013. She’s in the top 25% of Louisville realtors and cur-rently serves on KREIA’s board.

We polled the four on areas of real estate they have experience in and are willing to answer questions about, but you don’t have to confine your queries to the topics below....

Please take this opportunity to learn from these experienced investors! Register now for the April 26 meeting!

Early Meeting Speaker: New KREIA sponsor Hunt Rounsavall of Rounsavall Title Group will speak on the topic of lien law at 5:30 in the small meeting room. "That presentation covers the three types of liens that people typically run into: mechanic’s liens, judgment liens and tax liens," he writes. "We will talk about lien creation (the legal requirements that need to be contained within those instruments to make the lien valid), lien satisfaction, and lien avoidance."