Midlands Real Estate Investors Association

Palmetto Real Estate Pros Radio Show
2021-07-23 09:00 - 10:00, 2021-07-16 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | 100.7 FM/1470 AM radio or online at MakeThePointRadio.com
Live radio show from professional real estate agents and investors, Chad Jordan and Larry Jordan of the Palmetto Real Estate Group in West Columbia, SC. This radio show is features tips and experiences by Chad and Larry as well as interviews with seasoned investors and agents on best practices in real estate. Chad and Larry have been active in real estate for over 15 years. They’ve done conventional transactions as agents as well as creative ones as investors. Tune in each Friday morning at 9 am EST. You just might learn something.

Ladies Business Networking
2021-07-22 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-06-24 13:00 - 14:00 | SC
The Ladies Business Network Group will be meeting at Debra Whanger’s house on Lake Murray at the pool cabana. Call to RSVP (VERY IMPORTANT)! This is an in-person meeting, no longer just online!

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting – Multifamily Investing Concepts (ONLINE)
2021-07-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
This online meeting focuses on the basics of passively investing in multifamily buildings. Dan Handford is one of the managing partners with PassiveInvesting.com which is a national passive apartment investing firm based right here in the Carolinas. He has led his apartment syndication company to acquire 3,229+ units with a portfolio valued at over $470 million. Dan will cover some basic concepts on raising capital, investor relations, and tell us some warning signs to watch out for when looking for passively investing in this asset class.
The first 30 minutes of this meeting, from 7 pm to 7:30 pm, will be about obtaining affordable legal assistance from licensed attorneys with LegalShield services, with real-life applications, as well as affordable identity-theft protection. After that and a brief introduction to Midlands REIA, Dan will tell us about one of the most important things needed to successfully invest in multifamily properties, raising money.

LegalShield - Gun Ownership Educational Seminar (ONLINE)
2021-06-21 19:00 - 19:30 | SC
GUEST SPEAKER: Brent Kelly (CWP Instructor)
HOST: Sarah Mitchell –Mitchell Protection Group/LegalShield
WHAT: “Know The Facts/Laws” Gun Ownership Educational Seminar (ZOOM)
PROTECT YOUR GUN OWNER LEGAL RIGHTS
You, your family and/or clients carry a gun because you believe in the rights granted by the U.S. Constitution. However, do you know how to BEST protect your second amendment rights?
We believe every person should have access to the Justice System.
Learn how you, your family and/or your clients can have comprehensive protection that offers:
* 24 hour emergency access to Legal Counsel through an app
* Unlimited advice and consultation (firearm and personal)
* Ability to call attorney before traveling to check local laws
* NFA Gun Trust
* Nationwide Protection
* More…

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting – Starting and Growing a Real Estate Business (ONLINE)
2021-06-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
Auben Realty co-owner, Tyson Schuetze, will tell us how he started Auben Realty from nothing and grew it into a business with offices in several different states during one of the worst recessions in US history, the Great Recession of 2007. His path to success can teach us a lot about how to run our own businesses.
The first 30 minutes of this meeting (7 pm to 7:30 pm) will tell us how to obtain affordable legal services and identity-theft protection with LegalShield services. This will include a case study on collecting from debtors in bankruptcy using guidance from LegalShield attorneys. After this, Tyson will tell us his business strategies with Auben Realty and his plans for its future development including for his newest office here in Columbia, SC.

Ladies Business Networking
2021-05-28 13:00 - 14:00 | SC
The Ladies Business Network Group will be meeting at Debra Whanger’s house on Lake Murray. Call to RSVP (VERY IMPORTANT)! This is an in-person meeting, no longer just online!

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting – Owning Self-Storage Complexes (ONLINE)
2021-05-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
This meeting features a self-made millionaire who dropped out of school in the 8th grade, started with no money, and went on to create his own portfolio of commercial and residential properties. Join us as we interview Gerald Stauffer on how he created his real estate riches from scratch.
From 7 pm to 7:30 pm, there will be a pre-meeting session on how to obtain affordable legal services and identity theft protection by LegalShield Regional Director, Sarah Mitchell. After that and a brief introduction to Midlands REIA, Gerald will tell us how he created a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio from nothing.

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting – Small Retirement Accounts, Huge Profits (ONLINE)
2021-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
What if you could make huge profits and not have to legally pay any taxes on them? How quickly do you think you could grow your money? This online meeting will feature an expert on tax-exempt investing, Sean McKay, who is the Senior Vice President of American IRA, a company that specializes in showing us how to avoid paying taxes on our profits.
From 7 pm to 7:30 pm, there will be a pre-meeting session on how to obtain affordable legal services and identity theft protection by LegalShield Regional Director, Sarah Mitchell. After that and a brief introduction to Midlands REIA, Sean will show us how to grow our money quickly by not having to pay taxes on it.

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting – Success After Incarceration: How Badly Do You Want To Succeed? (ONLINE)
2021-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
Former prison convicts, Desmond “Tim Billions” Milligan and Wayde “Eddie” Sabina, and self-made successful businessman, Ricardo Giles, will tell us how they started with nothing (and less than nothing after leaving prison) to achieve success in real estate investing and business. This online meeting is especially for those who aren’t sure of they should be getting into real estate and business and for those who are thinking of giving up on their plans and dreams of independent real estate investing and business success. You can always give up anytime you want to, but why give up now?
From 7 pm til 7:30 pm, there will be a pre-meeting session on using LegalShield services to obtain affordable legal help from licensed attorneys. Our main meeting and keynote speaker will follow this.

Palmetto Real Estate Group Workshop for Realtors and Investors (Online)
2021-02-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Online Palmetto Real Estate Group
This meeting is held every 2nd Wednesday of each month. The hosts are Dawn Adams, Larry Jordan, and Chad Jordan who are with the Palmetto Real Estate Group. This meeting is held to provide updates and discussion in the real estate industry here in the South Carolina Midlands.

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting – Pushing Your Buttons: Wealth Creation with a Financial Calculator (ONLINE)
2021-02-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
Mortgage notes and financial expert, Bill Tan, buys, sells, and trades mortgage notes for a living. His main weapon for creating wealth is his financial calculator. Tonight, he will give us an overview of how he uses a financial calculator to avoid big mistakes and make big profits. He will give us real-life case studies on how to create wealth once you know how to decipher the numbers on mortgage loans.
You will NOT NEED a calculator at this presentation (having one will help…). Bill will provide the answers, the importance of each AND THE STORIES behind each one.
THE SKILLS TAUGHT AT THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE APPLICABLE IN EVERY SINGLE FINANCIAL TRANSACTION YOU ARE EVER INVOLVED WITH!
From 7 pm til 7:30 pm, there will be a pre-meeting session on using LegalShield services to obtain affordable legal help from licensed attorneys. Our main meeting and keynote speaker will follow this.

LegalShield Online Meeting- Legal Issues with Gun Ownership
2021-01-18 19:00 - 19:30 | SC
This ONLINE meeting covers legalities surrounding gun ownership. What are the laws on gun ownership? What can you do with a concealed weapons permit (CWP)? This brief ONLINE meeting will inform you about these legal issues and how to obtain affordable legal coverage for them.

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting – Building & Managing a Rental Portfolio (ONLINE)
2021-01-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
Andy Holland and Brianna Davie will tell us how they were able to start buying and managing their rental properties while working full-time jobs. Andy is a financial analyst by training and trade while Brianna has a bachelor degree and extensive experience in the retail business world. Both started building their rental income streams while students and while working full-time jobs. They will show us proven ways to create their futures beyond just the typical 9-to-5 working worlds of jobs.
There will be a pre-meeting session on how to obtain affordable legal assistance from licensed attorneys and identity theft protection using LegalShield services from 7 pm til 7:30 pm. After that, there will be an introduction to Midlands REIA and then our featured talk with Andy and Brianna.

Business & Leadership Training - Life Super App
2020-12-15 20:00 - 22:00 | SC
Overview of Life Super App subscription for financial education with business and leadership training afterwards. This meeting is led by business and tax strategist, Jeff Harmon. Each week, the business and leadership training gives ways to grow our businesses smoothly and profitably.

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting – Year-End Tax Planning (ONLINE)
2020-12-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
Since business and tax planning is so important as we go into the New Year, I asked a local expert on business and tax planning to speak to us again, Jeff Harmon, who will strategies we can implement immediately to help us run our businesses more smoothly and more profitably as we enter the New Year 2021. We, as real estate investors, have many tax breaks that we should be using but probably don’t know about. Jeff will help us recognize some of them. This is an ONLINE, live event so be sure to bring your questions.
There will be a pre-meeting on how to obtain affordable legal assistance from licensed attorneys and identity theft protection using LegalShield services from 7 pm til 7:30 pm. After that, there will be an introduction to Midlands REIA and then our featured talk with Jeff.

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting - Working with a Licensed Real Estate Broker
2020-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
This meeting feature an interview with an experienced real estate agent and broker, Dawn Adams. Dawn will give us insights on how she can best serve investors as well as how she uses her license to invest, herself. This will be an informal “coffee table” meeting so feel free to ask questions or bring in comments as Dawn speaks.
There will be a pre-meeting on how to obtain affordable legal assistance from licensed attorneys and identity theft protection using LegalShield services from 7 pm til 7:30 pm. After that, there will be an introduction to Midlands REIA and then our featured talk with Dawn.

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting - Business & Tax Planning for Success
2020-10-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States

Workshop: On-Site House Rehab (Before Rehab)
2020-10-03 08:00 - 13:00 | On-Site (attendees to be notified prior to event), SC, United States
On-site workshop of the latest rehab project by Realtor/investor, Blaire Kobliski, before any rehab work has been done. This workshop will be taught by Blaire and contractor, Wayde “Eddie” Sabina. Attendees will be allowed to record this workshop and will receive workbooks for on-site activities. This is the first of three workshops planned at this house.
This workshop is limited to 12 attendees. It is free for Midlands REIA annual members and $40 per person for non-members. Admission fee includes workbook and all three workshops. MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED BECAUSE OF COVID-19! THE CITY OF COLUMBIA HAS A MASK ORDINANCE IN EFFECT!

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting (ONLINE): Managing Your Rehab Contractors
2020-09-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
There will be a pre-meeting session on obtaining affordable legal assistance, especially regarding COVID-19, with LegalShield until 7:30 pm.
This online meeting will feature a seasoned licensed residential builder, Wayde “Eddie” Sabina, and a Realtor/investor, Blaire Kobliski, who will tell us what they know about maximizing values and profits on house rehabs they work on and resell. They’ll tell us how to properly screen out the bad workers who masquerade as contractors but aren’t really qualified and how to get the best efforts from the legitimate contractors. They’ll tell us what to look for and what pitfalls to avoid when rehabbing houses.
Eddie has been a licensed residential builder since 1998 and is also a license home inspector. Blaire rehabs houses only part-time and so far averages $30K profit per rehab flip. Rehabbing houses isn’t anywhere as easy as it looks on the HGTV house flipping shows so Eddie and Blaire will tell us what it’s REALLY like to rehab houses from a contractor’s viewpoint and from a Realtor’s/investor’s viewpoint.

How To Connect And Do Business With The Latino Markets
2020-09-14 11:00 - 12:00 | SC
This meeting has a password: [REDACTED]
This online meeting, held by Vanessa Mota of Mota Enterprises, will give an introduction on how to tap into Latino markets to increase our reach and market share. Vanessa is a multicultural expert with close ties into the different cultures here in the South Carolina Midlands.
This meeting has a password: [REDACTED]

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting (ONLINE): Interview with a Rags-To-Riches Success
2020-08-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
There will be a pre-meeting session on obtaining affordable legal assistance, especially regarding COVID-19, with LegalShield until 7:30 pm.
This month, we interview Gerald Stauffer who dropped out of 8th grade, started with only $1500 in his name in 2003, and has since bought and sold over $11 million in real estate. Gerald lives in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. This will be an open Q & A especially for those who want to get into real estate investing without a lot of money. Gerald will tell us ways to start with nothing and still find deals and funding for them, as well as how he eventually got into commercial real estate and thrives in that arena now.

LegalShield Online Meeting – Protect Your Business, Your Clients and Your Family During Uncertain Times
2020-07-24 13:30 - 14:15, 2020-07-17 13:30 - 14:30 | SC
Protecting Your Business and You Personally in Times of Uncertainty
About this Event
You take care of everyone else and everything else. Who is helping take care of YOU?
Commonly asked questions around uncertain times:
Business:
What are your obligations to protect your employees?
What are your obligations to pay employees on sick leave?
If an employee is showing virus symptoms, can you force them to stay home?
Are you required to allow employees to work at home?
Are you responsible if employees are exposed to the virus while on the job?
Can you ask employees to get tested for COVID-19?
Are you up to date on new legislation around government relief efforts?
Employee benefits? Are there ideas for helping my employees, without spending a lot of money?
Personal:
Should you become ill, does someone have power of attorney for you and your business?
Do you have your estate planning documents (Wills, Trust, Power of Attorney, Medical Power of Attorney) complete and up-to-date?
Life insurance, to meet your family needs and to cover the debt on your business.
Retirement concerns. What should you be doing? Do you have a plan?
ZOOM LINK PROVIDED AFTER REGISTRATION
Mitchell Protection Group
(803) 622-5334

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting (ONLINE): Serving Multicultural Markets
2020-07-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
There will be a pre-meeting session on obtaining affordable legal assistance with LegalShield until 7:30 pm.
Real estate investor, Carlos Barrera of Barrera Investments, and cross-cultural expert, Vanessa Mota of Mota Enterprises, will show us how we can expand our markets, not by increasing coverage area but by tapping into the different cultures and international communities that exist right now in our markets and that many of us overlook even though we probably know them as neighbors, friends, and co-workers. Carlos and Vanessa not only work with the Anglo-American and African-American communities, but also with Latino, Middle Eastern, Asian, and others. Carlos is particularly skilled at quickly finding cash buyers from the Latino and Asian communities to help us sell our houses and Vanessa can help us solidify the relationships we start with people from other cultures.
Rather than spend extra resources to increase our profits by expanding geographically, we can increase our profits just by taking some time and putting forth a little effort to better understand the people in the different communities and cultures where we live and work.

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting (ONLINE): A Philosophy of Real Estate Investing - Seller Financing
2020-06-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
There will be a pre-meeting session on obtaining affordable legal assistance with LegalShield until 7:30 pm.
This meeting will be on “A Philosophy of Real Estate” with Kevin Kolinski. Kevin will tell us the realities of seller financing. Seller-financed deals do NOT happen because of techniques you learn. Kevin will explain what really makes seller financing possible. Kevin has been using creative techniques to acquire properties for over a decade without borrowing from financial institutions and without using a lot of his own money.

Columbia REIA Monthly Meeting (ONLINE): Basics of Owner Financing
2020-05-28 19:00 - 20:30 | SC
The main topic for this ONLINE meeting is Owner Financing. When we can’t sell properties for top price or by conventional methods, owner financing is a valid option since we can not only sell to buyers who can get bank loans, but we can also sell to buyers who can’t, or won’t, get bank financing.
Owner financing is a good option for sellers who mainly want cash flow and possible tax benefits from properties they sell. The speaker for tonight is seasoned Realtor and investor, Kiesha Jones. Kiesha not only uses the Multiple Listing Service as one of her powerful weapons, she also uses creativity as an investor to maximize selling prices and profits.

How To Create An Opportunistic Fund (ONLINE)
2020-05-12 14:00 - 15:00 | SC
What investing opportunities in both real estate and other industries have been produced? How can you, the entrepreneur, take advantage of what comes? Multiple economists and futurists predict that the opportunities will come and go fast, so an opportunity seeker has to be at the ready to act.
In this webinar, securities attorneys, Jillian Sidoti and Nancee Tegeder with the Crowdfunding Law Firm, are going to teach you how to start your very own opportunity fund so that you can be ready to take advantage of the opportunities that the new economy will provide and when it provides them.
Jillian Sidoti, Esq., specializes in transactional legal matters such as private placement memorandums, S-1′s/S-11’s, and Regulation D filings. Jillian also speaks at seminars educating real estate investors on how to legally raise capital for their real estate investment projects. She is one of the country’s foremost authorities on crowdfunding and syndication.
Nancee Tegeder, Esq., is a Partner at Trowbridge Sidoti LLP where she advises clients on matters related to crowdfunding, syndications, commercial real estate transactions, and securities laws. Nancee is the leading expert at the firm on opportunity zone funds.

Midlands REIA Monthly Meeting (ONLINE): Legally Pooling Investor Funds By Syndication
2020-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Midlands REIA, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
This meeting will open with a brief overview of how to obtain affordable legal protection during this COVID-19 pandemic with LegalShield services.
Securities attorney and leading expert on syndication and crowdfunding, Jillian Sidoti, Esq., will teach us how to legally pool investor funds to be able to do bigger deals with much higher profit potentials than what each individual investor could do alone by themselves. People have gone to prison for violating rules and regulations governing the structures of this type of funding. Ms. Sidoti’s expertise is in ensuring that we don’t violate these laws. This is a free ONLINE event that requires your registration to attend.
Since 2008, Ms. Sidoti has submitted multiple Regulation A Offering Circulars to the Securities and Exchange Commission for approval making her one of the few attorneys familiar with the law prior to the changes under the JOBS Act. Since the JOBS Act, she has assisted multiple companies and entrepreneurs in reaching their fundraising goals through both crowdfunding and syndication. She also teaches college courses for MBA programs.
Ms. Sidoti is the author of the highly rated book, The Crowdfunding Myth, that teaches best practices for crowdfunding and how to effectively crowdfund securities offerings. She is also an expert on pooling self-directed retirement funds from investors to fund large deals.
