Attend our virtual workshop! You'll get HOURS of real estate education from active, local investors, at a bargain price. And thanks to Zoom's online conferencing  software, you can attend from the comfort of your own home.

Picking up from our Thursday, January 28th, main meeting — which is sure to be a jam-packed presentation — we plan to meet our goals of:

• Providing new investors enough information to get started investing
• Helping new to mid-level investors set or refine their short- and long-term goals
• Building attendees' confidence by introducing them to other investors who have achieved success in a few short years
• Giving investors actionable items to move forward
• Leaving new investors with enough information to have an idea which path to go down

If you like what you hear on Thursday but want more clarity on your particular situation, this workshop is for you.

Each of the three speakers — and they are well-known powerhouses in the Kentuckiana investing community — will have more time to teach, present case studies, AND ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS.

Our presenters are...

Erik Hitzelberger, Covering REI Basics

A systems-driven rehabber and landlord, Erik Hitzelberger will start things off Saturday morning with a look at why real estate makes sense for wealth building, and why it blows competing investment classes out of the water. If you're counting on Social Security, your 401(k) or the stock market to fund your retirement, you really need to listen to Erik.

Erik is going to help you figure out where you are on your individual road map to wealth and evaluate the strategies that can get you there. Holding rental property is vital to achieving real wealth, we all know, but what roles do wholesaling and rehabbing play? How passive or active a real estate investor do you want to be? How much wealth do you need or want? Figuring out these things will help you define your goals, and Erik will offer insight.

Erik has been on KREIA's board for many years, is a KREIA past vice president and currently serves as the group's secretary. He's also a principal in Freedom Property Group, a turnkey rentals company that buys and rehabs a massive amount of properties in order to sell them to truly passive investors -- and then take on property management for them.

Mike Fallot, on Getting Started and Funding Deals

As a local lender who funds rehabbers on their house flip deals — and their rehab-and-refi-into-rentals deals (the popular BRRRR method) — Mike Fallot knows a thing or two about real estate investing.

Working with rehabbers over the years through his company, MM Lending, Mike has helped longtime investors rehab many houses, and he's helped new investors conquer that first flip.

If you're wondering how to arrange funding for your real estate endeavors, whether you have a big nest egg or not, and whether your goal is to flip houses or buy rental property, take lots of notes during Mike's presentation — and ask him lots of questions. Mike has also served on KREIA's board and has been a frequent KREIA guest speaker.

Harry Borders, on Building Your Business

You probably know Harry Borders as one of the most prolific closing attorneys in the area with his firm, Borders & Borders. He also helps new investors create entities best suited for real estate businesses. Should you work out of an LLC, an S-Corp, a C-Corp? Harry fill you in.

Real estate is a team sport, and Harry will describe who you should have on your team. He'll also cover some marketing basics.

And if you're looking for contracts and other agreements approved by a Kentucky attorney, talk to Harry! He's very generous in sharing his documents. Remember, contracts and docs you acquire from out-of-state real estate coaches may not be legal here in Kentucky.

A landlord himself, with plenty of cash-flowing rentals in his portfolio, Harry is uniquely positioned to answer your questions from many angles.

New Investor Panel

We also want to show that you can reach success in real estate even as a relative newcomer — and so we have invited to our panel some local investors who have been active in real estate for only a few short years.

With their first steps still fresh in their minds, they're going to tell us how they got started. You'll hear from:

• Jacob Michal, a new wholesaler who has already locked up dozens of deals
• Cameron DeGeorge, a wholesaler who has moved on to dispositions, and is full of wholesaling knowledge
• Jacqueline Smith, a budding rehabber and landlord who, along with her husband, has made the leap into real estate full-time
• Joanna Dennis, a landlord and rehabber who dipped a toe into Louisville's Airbnb pool a few months ago and is already a superhost

You're going to learn so much, you're going to be inspired, and you're going to pick up forward momentum moving toward your real estate goals.

P.S. If you're new to Zoom teleconferencing and have not already successfully attended one of our virtual meetings, please check out our Zoom cheat sheet here.