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D oesn't it make sense to LEARN ways that allow you to KEEP more of what you earn? And to PROTECT what you own! - Don't Miss the discussion at the regular BAWB Thursday evening meeting followed up with a Do not miss (2) TWO FULL DAYS workshop on Sat. 10-22 & Sun. 10-23 taught by Real Estate Author, Investor, and Entrepreneur Dyches Boddiford and Tax Attorney / CPA John Hyre
UPCOMING WORKSHOP:
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The Campbell Method: A Proven Timing System that Tells You EXACTLY When to Buy and Sell Real Estate to Make Maximum Profits! 
About the Speaker:
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Jason Buzi has been a full time real estate investor since 2005, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has wholesaled, flipped and built hundreds of properties throughout the Bay Area. His niches have included luxury home construction, wholesaling, double closings, short sales, and rehabs. He has also invested in a mobile home park and land properties. Jason specializes exclusively in off market deals, and has put together systems to find and buy properties off market and below market. 
Why Mobile Home Parks?
Joe began investing in 2002 and since then he has been involved in multiple transactions fixing, flipping single family and multi-unit deals implementing various acquisition strategies and management. During the "Great Recession" meltdown, he decided to stop flipping houses and to begin building monthly cash flow by owning and operating mobile home parks. Things were not easy at first, as his first mobile home park deal was a major REO “Turn Around” property, a 141 space park purchased at the end of 2008. After lots of lessons learned…including a potential property rezoning notice from the City was incredible, but he and his partner were able to navigate through turbulent waters safely to shore.
About our Speaker Tim Twomey
WHAT ARE THESE HABITS REALLY COSTING YOU?
So many agents and investors are complaining that the marketplace we are currently in has become increasingly difficult to locate good deals. With a little thought and effort you can prime the pump and get your pipeline filled with opportunities that can be acted upon.
We see it used in many types of construction; driveways, countertops, walkways, steps, mortar on chimneys and bricks, and of course foundations. Oftentimes little thought is given to it use. However it can often blister, curl, crack, craze, discolor, and scale. Could some of these symptoms indicate much LARGER issues of concern? How do you deal with such visible issues such as these? 
You will Learn:
A native of Brazil, Eron Ferreira is the President of Concrete Solutions, Inc. and a Managing Member of FYI Properties, LLC. He is a licensed General Contractor and a foundation specialist.
David LaPlante
I have a DEAL for you! 
BAWB Regular Monthly Meeting - Thursday May 18th,2017
About our Speaker: Tim Twomey, P.E.
Additionally:
Tom K. Wilson began building his personal real estate portfolio in the 70's. He first invested as a part-time activity, and then after thirty years managing manufacturing and engineering in some of Silicon Valley’s pioneering technology companies, he put his business and management experience toward full-time real estate investing. Mr. Wilson has bought and sold more than 3,500 units and over $250 million of real estate, including 
three condo conversion projects, nine syndications, and eight multifamily properties. He founded and owns Wilson Investment Properties, Inc., a company that has provided over 500 high cash flow, high-quality, rehabbed and leased residential properties to investors. Active in real estate associations, Mr. Wilson is a frequent speaker on real estate investing where his candor and competency makes him an audience favorite. As part of his outreach, Tom provides mentoring to new investors. His weekly radio show Real Estate Radio Power Investing provides extensive education on real estate investing.
GOT CONTRACT? 
The latest version of the CAR Residential Purchase Agreement continues to evolve into a 10+ page tangle of paragraphs and cross references. Come sort it out with the help of 40-year veteran real estate broker Cari Lynn Pace. Cari stresses that she did NOT design or have input on the changes involved in the new contract, but as a risk management and litigation advisor she can help us understand it. She will take us through the form's major changes on a powerpoint presentation.
Cari Lynn Pace is 42-year veteran Marin real estate broker who sells, trains agents, and owns Professional Publishing LLC and www.ProPubForms.com. Pace, a Past President of the Marin Association of Realtors, consults with attorneys regarding their pending litigation and frequently testifies at trials. Pace authored a popular insider's guide to avoiding real estate litigation. She will have copies of her book available to autograph;
Pace will discuss several topics of importance this evening including:
ALL you need to know about one of the most important aspects of construction
The in's and out's of the different types of Foundations
From this evenings Discussion you will learn to Read, Understand and
bout Mario Mazzamuto,
Jay P. DeCima is a seasoned real estate investor with nearly 50 years experience. Since 1977 he has specialized in fixing up ugly houses and small apartment buildings. Jay is also a successful career-changer, having worked over twenty years for the telephone company before switching to full-time real estate investing in 1979. Today, Jay spends the majority of his time managing and overseeing his investment houses and training others who wish to pursue this lucrative profession.
There are a myriad of laws out there - lack of knowledge of which can create a lot of trouble for you and in some cases make you broke. Visit with us and our legal Expert; K. Brad Rogerson with Hanson Bridgett, LLP who practices and understands Real Estate Law and its well worth your time to be at our meeting and hear about this very important topic.
A few items that will be covered:
Mr. Yesk has been in the 1031 business for over 16 years, helping thousands of real estate investors save millions of dollars in taxes. That is money that can be used to grow your investment portfolio. A well-respected attorney and trainer, Mr. Yesk has given accredited seminars to attorneys, accountants, enrolled agents, investors and real estate agents on 1031 exchanges, real estate investing and ethics for attorneys. Known for his creative strategies and quick wit, his seminars are informative and entertaining.
Bill Tan Visits and discusses 
Biography:
Learn about improved methods involving Real Estate for Buying, Selling, Lending, Partnering and more with the use of the Title Holding Trusts and PPT’s Personal Property and IRA trusts. Additional features, anonymity, some asset protection, estate planning, ultra – privacy, and more. There are TON’s of effective uses of Trust’s that provide safety and privacy.
Fear is a powerful emotion…
Thursday, August 20th: BAWB monthly meeting, Corte Madera, 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm 
Tom K. Wilson has executed over $120M and 2,500 units of real estate investment transactions, including 7 apartment buildings, 4 commercial properties, 3 condo conversion projects, 5 syndications, over 500 house flips, and has many long term hold units in his personal portfolio. After 30 years of managing some of Silicon Valley’s pioneering technology companies, Mr. Wilson put his engineering, business and management experience and skills toward full time investing. One of his companies, Wilson Investment Properties, Inc. provides high-quality, high-cash flow residential and commercial properties and syndications to other investors.
What you will learn:
DYCHES BODDIFORD
PETER FORTUNATO
Join us as we listen, learn and look back through the eyes of one of fellow BAWB Members and experienced investor; Dave Wilson. Dave has been through numerous up and down cycles, has bought, sold, managed, and invested in properties in multiple states. He will share with us through his discerning eye some of the GOOD and BAD lessons learned from being involved with Real Property that spans many decades.
Q- How much real estate could you buy if money was not a problem? 
Mark is broker and president of Pacific Private Money Inc., one of the largest hard money loan brokers in the Bay Area. Founded in 2008, Mark took his company from zero to over $100 million in loan originations in just four years. Uncovering the secrets to gaining access to unlimited cash, Mark has attracted more than 500 private investors to his lending practice. Since its inception in 2008, Pacific has funded nearly 1,000 private money loans totaling over $200 million, many of them "fix & flip" loans to Northern California rehabbers and flippers. Known as the "Private Money Guy", Mark is a regular speaker at real estate events throughout the Bay Area. 
As of the New Year a number of Changes have taken place with the CAR- California Association of Realtors RPA- Residential Purchase Agreement and Disclosures. 
Cari has to know the new form, as her own company Professional Publishing LLC, has offered a competing form for decades before this new one surfaced. Attorneys, agents, landlords, and investors can access individual forms at 
Cari's background as a speaker and trainer is impressive: She's an author of three real estate books, a past President of the Association of Realtors, Master Instructor with theProfessional Realty Institute, and accredited as an Instructor with the CA Department of Real Estate. She writes for the California Real Estate Law Newsletter and many other publications. Her real enjoyment, however, is as a real estate expert witness in courtroom trials. Cari roots out the bad apples who defraud their clients, and keeps notes. Her most popular book uncovers the top 100 reasons leading to lawsuits. She will bring autographed copies of her book "Don't Shoot Me…I'm Just the Real Estate Agent!" to the meeting.
About John T. Reed
It's been quite the past year for Bay Area Housing, we started with a SIZZLE and ended in some areas with a distinct SLOW DOWN. Whether you are a landlord with rentals, involved in operating multi income units, or the buy / sell business you want to have a grasp on what these recently polled experts are saying about the Real Estate Market and Housing for this coming year. 
What will happen with Interest Rates?
Understanding the different commercial properties asset types and their unique characteristics |
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Join Peter & John and attendees from all over the country as they teach this ONE TIME class on the West Coast;
Markets are Transitioning, but the future of the economy is still uncertain.
You can’t predict the future, but you can be ready for it.
Come learn strategies for building cash flow and your estate whether we have inflation, deflation or a meltdown.
Is Capitalism really where it is at?
Peter and John survived, prospered, and helped their students make money with real estate and notes in every market since 1975.
This is a wonderful opportunity to Listen and Learn from two of the best and most creative Real Estate Educators / Instructors around.
Don’t Miss this Meeting; invite a family member, your spouse, loved one, business associate, etc. and bring them along- they will be glad you did.
The BLOCKBUSTER EDUCATIONAL
EVENT OF THE YEAR !
- Will Dodd-Frank get repealed and if not how can you work around it ?
- Rumors are flying about ending home mortgage interest deductions and also 1031 Tax Free Exchanging
- Is the ROTH IRA going to be under attack by our revenue hungry government?
Learn to Evolve or Perish
You cannot continue doing what you've always done. Markets are heating up, the future of the economy is uncertain. You can't predict the future but you can be ready for it. Come learn strategies for building CASH FLOW and your Estate whether we have Inflation, Deflation, or a Meltdown. Peter & John survived, prospered and have helped their students make money with Real Estate in every market since 1975. Join them and successful investors from across the country for this one time California presentation. Get ready for an exciting and profitable future!
When Peter & John get together it is in a word; DYNAMIC!
When they teach together on the West Coast - its an experience you do not want to miss!
Sat. 10-25 & Sun. 10-26- South San Francisco
Register Early for Discounted Tuition
Do Not Wait -This Class will Sell out!
Where: South San Francisco Conference Center
Cost:
For individual $595.00 or $895.00 for Two Registering Together*
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ENDS Midnight October 15th,2014
$495.00 for an individual and $795.00 for two or more registering together*
*A small Event Brite Registration fee will be due additionally.
NOTE: We have arranged Special lodging prices at the nearby Holiday Inn SFO and Citi Garden Hotel but there are an extremely limited number of rooms. Reserve Early if you need overnight lodging.
Class Times: 9 Am to 5 Pm both days.
GREAT NETWORKING - Also Don't Miss the Networking & Brainstorming Session Saturday Evening after Class
All attendees will receive extensive class workbook containing case studies and documentation of deals.
For more information about the workshop, a brochure or to register CLICK HERE
For additional information and details about this event please CLICK HERE
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 Meeting
Red Hot, Crazy Frenetic Markets Cannot Go On Forever
Fall is coming, Followed by the Holiday Season and Winter Time
Prepare for the CHILL OF THE MARKET
Interest rates have moved up and are expected to continue to rise
The Fed and Lenders have made some changes...
Loan Resets are kicking in...
There is continued uncertainty in the Middle East & the Ukraine
The economy continues to sputter along
The DOW and Wall Street have reached new unprecedented heights but are they sustainable?
Congress & the President must read an accord on our how to respond to some of these World threats, our Federal Budget and to continue to fund our Bloated Government Bureaucracy
Municipalities around the country continue to struggle to rein in run away costs
These factors and many more are starting to once again creep into the Marketplace here in the SF Bay Area.
Don't miss this months meeting and insights on how you can safely protect yourself and your investments during this coming Chill.
UPCOMING Regular BAWB MONTHLY MEETING
THURS Evening 8-21-2014
Meeting Starts at 7:00 Pm and End Approx. 9:30 Pm
and Follow up FULL DAY WORKSHOP EVENT on
Saturday 8-23-14
Do Not Miss This Months Meeting
and the Tremendous Content Rich
FULL DAY Workshop Class
Don't Wait - Register Today for the Saturday
FULL DAY WORKSHOP
All Day WORKSHOP- Saturday August 23rd, 2014
Corte Madera, CA
Going Rogue with Rehab!
Property Rehabbing Done Right....
Your Instructor; Mary Morrongiello
Regardless of whether you are a rental landlord or in the Buy/Sell property business; every one involved in rehabbing houses makes a few mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are pretty BIG mistakes and can leave you running for the courthouse, heading back to your lender or scrambling for more money, or even heading to the hospital! Whether you're just starting out or seasoned this Full Day class will enlighten you about how to avoid major mistakes that can leave you scrambling. Plans, Permits, Roofs, Foundations, Electric, Plumbing, Flooring, Furnaces, Windows, Painting, Landscaping, Sewers, Septic systems, Design choices, Sources, Materials and Labor, and Pest and Home Inspections, etc. can be just a few of the many ongoing tasks involved in a property renovation project.
About Your Instructor:
Having completed 100+ flip renovations and booked with projects through the end of 2014 Mary began flipping in California in 1998 after moving to the Wine Country from Tampa Bay, FL. She went BROKE in the market decline of 2007 when she got stuck with a Million Dollar + wine country rehab. It has taken her 6+ years to recover but she gets up every day and moves forward; As the Life of a Flipper can be filled with "rags to riches" cycles. She enjoys teaching both the new and experienced property renovator not only What to do or consider doing but also what NOT to Do!
Who will succeed and who will fail as a property Flipper and more importantly WHY?- Summary of the California Micro Markets from our vantage point as of August 2014.
You NEED to be paying attention to this! Working a Territory like Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman)
Our Approach to Finding Deals (to Fix n Flip Only)
- Agents that work and agents that don't have any power or inventory
- Kitchen Table Discussions
- Marketing
- Short Sales, REO's, Other Distress Sales
- Building Referral's from Past Projects\
Learn intimately about the PROCESS, the CREW, the DESIGN CHOICES, and the RE-SALE
- How to Find a Good Contractor (and Vendors)
- The Critical Steps; Once in Contract what do you need to do PRIOR to COE?
- What inspections should be done, who to use?
- Streamlining the process of pulling permits, drafting plans, dealing with bureaucrats, tactics that will save you time and money
Is it a Good Deal?
- Reasons to Walk Away, Reasons to Run!
- What should be on site – the day you are "on record"
- At the end of the first 3 days…what should be on site, how do you determine this, how do you get these items there, what are the range of costs
- Running the Job Site- (How to work on the Crew…not in it)
Before & After Photos to dissect WHY certain choice drives up the price over your competition.
Once in Contract for Resale with a Buyer- What will you do and Where will you draw the line
Open Questions throughout the day and instructor will stay until the Last Question is Answered
Discounted PRE-Registration Tuition Ends Midnight on August 18th 2014
Tuition COST:
IF Pre- Registered and a BAWB member $159.00 per person
IF Pre- Registered and Non Member $179.00 per person
Cost per person after PRE-Registration ends $220.00 per person
Where:
Best Western Corte Madera Inn,56 Madera Blvd, Corte Madera, CA 94925
# 415-924-1502 for Hotel Direct
Register Online for the August 2014 Workshop
View printable brochure of the Workshop
Thursday July 17th 2014
Topic: "Show me the Money!"
Various Niche Lenders & Guest Speakers
Regardless of whether you're just starting out, or have lots of experience under your belt, access to quick cash funds is often of paramount importance in being able to negotiate below market transactions. With the right deal structure there is never a shortage of funds available. Visit with us and learn from several Money Experts who will illustrate for you how some creative investor loan products along with "Hard Money" programs can become Easy Money to facilitate your deals.
It's always a new day and age in the ever changing world of Real Estate Finance.
Proper and timely funding is the grease the "squeaky wheel" continues to need in order for properties to continue to be bought and sold, rented and held and for any chance of a long term housing recovery to take hold.
With mortgage lending activities still severely restricted and the availability of funds for both buyers and sellers limited- this month's meeting involves a panel of several different lenders who offer different niche lending programs that address and cater to activities such as:
Fixer Upper Loans - both from an institutional lender standpoint and from a private money lending vantage point.- First Time and current Home buyers FHA, VA, and Conventional financing programs.
- What is a QM Mortgage?
- Do any stated income loan programs even exist anymore?
- Does Title seasoning of ownership matter?
- What about the HVCC- Home Valuation Code of Conduit appraisal rules?
- How has the implementation of Dodd-Frank affected the loan industry?
- What are the various down payment requirements and qualifying criteria?
- Investor loan programs for the investor looking both to Purchase and also Refinance Non Owner Occupied Investor properties
- Short & Long Term Private Money lending
- Hard Money- Asset based Lending
It's important to be aware of what is out there in the marketplace as it may affect you - regardless of whether you are an investor looking to acquire properties or to pull cash out through refinancing's, or a seller seeking to get cashed out upon the resale of one of your properties.
Join us for what promises to be a very informative meeting.
June 19th 2014- BAWB Monthly Meeting
"Paper" Vs Real Estate
A lot of Real Estate Investors have heard about "Notes" or have actually invested in Real Estate Secured "paper" versus the actual ownership of the Real property itself. In many cases that may be a more well suited investment for some versus the actual Real Property. This months meeting will explore some of the commonalities and differences between owning THE PROPERTY versus owning DEBT.
Which is the better investment?
Learn about the 3 Common Problems with owning Real Estate
Who is the Ideal Tenant?
Generating Predictable returns
When is it best to be a lender Vs When to own property?
What is the Equity Equation?
The 3 Primary ways to use "paper"
The one BIG Fallacy about Real Estate secured "paper"
About your Speaker:
Michael Morrongiello is an active investor who specializes in Real Estate & Real Estate "Paper" investments. Widely known as having one of the most knowledgeable & creative minds in the paper business, Michael started creating paper as a result of his own Real Estate investment activities in the early 1980's. He is very active in the Buy/Sell renovation business of properties here in the SF Bay Area.
Michael is the author of; Paper into Cash – The Convertible Currency-the definitive home study course that assists you in structuring seller financed transactions while creating marketable Notes and The Unity of Real Estate and "paper" – a course book that outlines numerous real world in the marketplace transaction scenarios and solutionswhere Real Estate and financing techniques involving "paper" can be effectively used.
May 15, 2014 Meeting
This is a Two (2) Part Meeting:
Part # 1
"Current Legal Issues Affecting Real Estate Investors & Professionals"
Whether you are an active Real Estate Investor or a Real Estate Professional you do not want to miss this month's meeting about HOT Button legal issues you need to be aware of!
Speaker:
Shannon B. Jones, Attorney at Law
With offices in Danville, San Jose and Sacramento, CA Shannon and her law associates have their pulse on many of the legal aspects involving a wide variety of Real Estate related matters or Transactions. These can vary from transactional assistance and negotiations, litigation, lender or borrower loan assistance, construction and developer help, commercial and residential landlord /tenant issues, to matters involving business entity formation and documentation.
With first hand exposure to numerous transaction matters involving Short sales and REO's, agent, buyer, and seller disclosure issues, current investor and agent trouble areas and other current topics this promises to be a VERY informative meeting. She will cover the following and more;
- Disclosure Issues what you need to know and WHY
- Current Issues Concerning the Handling of Short Sales and REOs
- Current Agent and Investor Trouble Areas
- New Legal Statutes that have come into play
About Our Speaker:
Shannon B. Jones is the owner and managing partner of Shannon B. Jones Law Group. She has been representing real estate agents and brokers for 23 years. She has an undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Southern California. She is a member of CAR's Strategic Defense Panel. She has published a number of articles and the best selling 
real estate book, "A Real Estate Agents Practical Guide to Avoiding Litigation." She also is the owner of Diablo Mediation Services, an organization set up to resolve real estate and business disputes.
She is a shareholder in California Real Estate Legal Alliance ("CRELA"), a company established to represent real estate professionals throughout the State of California that offers real estate advice, coaching, claims prevention, effective and efficient management of claims, risk management, cutting edge industry information, insurance management assistance, as well as other beneficial services.
Please visit her website at www.calrealestatelaw.com.
Part # 2
A Review and Take Away Points from John Schaub's recent Visit to BAWB and some of his workshop discussion points
April 17, 2014
Making it BIG on Little Deals...
Spend an evening listening and learning from seasoned investor, educator, and author;
John Schaub
This is a unique and rare opportunity to catch one of the best educators in the business while he is here on the West Coast and SF Bay Area. John authored; "Building Wealth One House at a Time" and has assisted thousands of Real Estate enthusiasts on their path to successful Real Estate Investing. He is a reformed BIG deal guy and will share with us his straight forward Real Estate philosophies which if followed allow most to prosper.
About John Schaub
John Schaub has prospered during three recessions, four tax law changes and interest rates ranging from 6-16% in his 35 years as a real estate investor. His 2005 best-selling book, Building Wealth One House at a Time, assisted more than 80,000 real estate enthusiasts on their way to successful investing. His book Building Wealth Buying Foreclosures is available through Amazon.
John recommends buying better, well-located houses rather than management-intensive properties. He advocates paying off debt, owning properties free and clear, and renting only to long term, high quality tenants.
John buys, sells and manages his own properties, and enjoys providing quality housing at fair prices for working families in his community. He teaches two Building Wealth One House at Time seminars each year where students learn how to identify the best investment property in their town, how to buy it at below-market prices, how to negotiate terms that guarantee a profit and how to manage without working nights or weekends.
John also invests his time helping those who cannot afford to buy a home through conventional sources through his work with Habitat for Humanity and the Fuller Center for Housing. John served for more than 20 years on the board of Sarasota Habitat, 7 years on Habitat's International Board and currently chairs the board of the Fuller Center for Housing International.
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DON'T WAIT - PRE-REGISTER TODAY!
BAWB is also sponsoring a FULL DAY workshop with John Schaub on Saturday April 19th 2014 at the South SF Conference Center.
The BEST of John Schaub
40 Years of Profitable Dealmaking
If there is one class you MUST attend in 2014- THIS IS IT
The very affordable class will offer something for everyone as John will cover (4) four main themes or quadrants involved in successful Real Estate investing.
- Generating Cash Flow 24/7
- Negotiating Secrets of a Professional Buyer
- Buying Distress Notes & Property – a path to follow right now
- Retirement Investing; How to Retire Sooner, with More
Don't Wait – PRE- Register Early for Discounted Tuition and valuable FREE Bonuses.
For more details about the workshop, a workshop brochure, or to register online or offline please click here.
BAWB Thursday March
20th 2014 Meeting
A Two (2) Part Program You Do not want to Miss!
Part # 1 TOPIC:
In Defense of Real Estate Agents
Are they the "Keys" to 
your success?
Whether you are BUYING or SELLING investment properties, often maligned as not wanting to work with investors, not understanding investors, and often being a deterrent to investor success; this meeting will dispel some of those myths and why you should strive to have several good Real Estate Agents as part of your team
A few Items that will be covered:
- How to select a good investor friendly agent
- How to set up the ground rules for how you want to do business
- Investor friendly RE Agent skill sets which are important
- How to leverage the services of a good RE Agent
- Which RE agents to avoid
- When to take charge and When to let the agent shine
- Monetizing for YOUR benefit your agent relationships
Part # 2 TOPIC:
How to Pre-Screen Motivated Sellers
How do you screen motivated sellers to determine their level of motivation and whether a "Deal" is worth pursuing ...
Lear about the simple 12 Step Process or series of questions which will quickly tell you whether you have a motivated seller who is willing to be flexible or not.
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UPCOMING FULL DAY WORKSHOP
Time is Getting Short
DON'T WAIT -
PRE-REGISTER RIGHT NOW !
BAWB is also sponsoring a FULL DAY
workshop with John Schaub
on Saturday April 19th 2014 at the South SF Conference Center.
The BEST of John
Schaub
40
Years of Profitable Dealmaking
If there is one class you MUST attend in 2014- THIS IS IT
Don't miss John Schaub's rare visit to the SF Bay area.
The very affordable class will offer something for everyone as John will cover (4) four main themes or quadrants involved in successful Real Estate investing.
- Generating Cash Flow 24/7
- Negotiating Secrets of a Professional Buyer
- Buying Distress Notes & Property – a path to follow right now
- Retirement Investing; How to Retire Sooner, with More
Don't Wait – PRE- Register Early for Discounted Tuition and valuable FREE Bonuses.
For more details about the workshop, a workshop brochure, or to register online or offline please click here.
BAWB Thursday February 20th, 2014 Meeting
Is this the Right Time to Buy? Have we really reached the bottom of the Market as other so called experts are saying? Is the worst behind us? Is stabilization of the Marketplace now upon us as many industry experts are preaching? How long will this so called Real Estate "recovery" run on for? What is looming over the Horizon? DO NOT MISS THIS MONTHS MEETING!
Start off the New Year Informed "listen and learn from our own industry expert"
Speaker:
Author of Timing the Real Estate Market, Statistician, &
Investor;
Robert Campbell
Topic: 2014 Housing Forecast
What Will Happen & Why
Program Director Note: Robert has spoken at our meetings in the past and has been incredibly prescient in accurately predicting California Real Estate Market trends.Don't miss his insight at this months meeting…"
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The Campbell
Method: A Proven Timing
System that Tells You EXACTLY When to Buy
and Sell Real Estate to Make Maximum Profits!
Dear Real Estate Investor:
Imagine for a moment how you would feel if you could predict major turning
points in the real estate market.
Suppose somebody handed you a 22-year time-tested system that would tell you ahead of time when property values were going to hit a peak … and then when prices were going to hit bottom years later.
If you could anticipate these kinds of critical
real estate events in advance … then not only could you make spectacular
profits, but you could protect your money as well.
Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it?
Actually, it's not. The real estate market does
signal its future intentions if you know where to look.
Hello. My name is Robert Campbell and I wrote Timing the Real
Estate Market to help both professionals and ordinary people make
the most money in real estate with the least amount of risk.
I also have my web site; www.realestatetiming.com Based on a major breakthrough in
tracking and predicting real estate trends, my book reveals the real estate
timing technique that I call The Campbell
Method .
As far as I know, The Campbell Method is the only proven method in the world that shows how to accurately anticipate upcoming changes in your local real estate market.
What this means is that when you read Timing the Real Estate Market , you are going to learn how to make and protect your fortune in real estate in the same way that J. Paul Getty, the Rockefeller's, Warren Buffett, and other super-rich investors made their fortunes: by focusing on WHEN to buy and sell.
It's true. When it comes to making money in real
estate,
nothing beats good timing.
The reason that The Campbell Method is going to change the way you think about how to buy and sell real estate is that I share my truly remarkable discovery of five key real estate indicators. I call them Vital Signs, and they're able to predict the peaks and valleys of real estate cycles with an almost uncanny accuracy. As leading indicators to what's looming on the horizon for real estate prices, these Vital Sign indicators act like windows into the future, giving you advance notice of approaching trend changes from three to six months before they become obvious to the general public.
Author's Note: Timing the Real Estate Market is used at the University of San Diego by Professor Elaine Worzala. The class: Real Estate Investment. "The logic behind these Vital Sign indicators is air-tight," says Professor Worzala. "I'm very impressed, and my students love your book."
Copies of Timing the Real Estate Market Book will be available for purchase and autograph by Robert Campbell at the meeting.
BAWB Monthly Meeting Thursday January 16th, 2014
Its a New Year, a Fresh Start, Where are we at?
2014 State of the Union For The Individual Real Estate Investor
What is going on around
us?
What issues are we facing...
Where will the opportunities be this year?
What Should you be aware of?
Plus -How do we deal with Dodd-Frank
Its here, its restrictive and its frightening
New Harmful
Legislation for the Individual Investor you must be aware
of...
Don't Miss this Event!
Invite a business associate, friend, family member, or loved one and join us for this insightful and timely discussion to start off the New Year
Thursday November
21st, 2013
A TWO (2) PART PROGRAM you do not want to Miss!
PART 1:
ACA- The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Its Finally
Here - What you need to know and how it will affect you
After 3 & 1/2 years - President Obama's Signature Legislation is finally being rolled out. As a Health Care Initiative, its a massive bill and undertaking and represents about 1/6th of our Economy. How will it affect you, your family, loved ones, associates, employees, etc.? Don't miss this opportunity to listen and learn from one of our local Insurance experts about this bill,its requirements and effects.
What you will Learn:
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Who is eligible?
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WHO and WHAT is covered?
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Can I keep my existing Insurer?
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What are some of
the various plan offerings? -
Should I use an agent or go to the Exchange / Marketplace?
(assuming the web site is operational) -
What should I expect with my premiums...
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What are the timelines for registration, implementation, coverage to take effect, etc.
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What are the Subsidies offered? Subsidies will depend on family size and income.
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As a Self Employed Business owner how will I fair ?
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I've heard about the "Donut Hole" but what is it?
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And So much More...
Speaker:
Rob Kadesh
Bay Area Benefits Insurance Services, Inc.
About
Robert:
Robert has been in the insurance business for well over 20 years and is
President of BAB - Bay Area Benefits Insurance Services, Inc. His firm
specializes is Medical and Dental insurance for groups of 1-100 as well as
hundreds of individuals and families. BAB insures over 500 California
Companies. Robert lives in Danville, CA with his wife and 3 daughters and has
been on numerous local radio programs and live events throughout the Bay Area
speaking about the Affordable Care Act .
PART 2:
Learn About
Pre-Manufactured
Housing
About the Discussion:
Join Blu Homes and Architect, Mark Schirmer, and discover
how Blu Homes can help create added value for your property. Blu's
award-winning designs, streamlined building process and strong marketing
support for our developer partners is a winning recipe for getting your homes
sold easier and more quickly. Mark will present how Blu Homes works with
homebuilders, investors, lot owners and developers to construct a home that
fits their lifestyle needs—showcasing high-quality finishes, efficient
appliances and smart design.
Speaker: Mark Schirmer
Mark Schirmer is a licensed architect with over 16 years of experience and is a Customer
Design Architect for Blu Homes.
Prior to joining Blu, he worked for Wong Logan architects
in Berkeley, where he managed design team production and construction
administration of high-tech green community college buildings.
His diverse work experience also includes working on factory lines and construction.
He also has designed affordable
multi-family housing in his work with Pyatok Architects in Oakland, and later
worked on early Breeze and Glide houses at Michelle Kaufmann Designs, both
designs of which are now owned by Blu Homes.
In his personal time, he enjoys playing cello for his two-year old daughter, traveling with his wife or trail running in the East Bay hills.
BONUS DISCUSSION:
How to get around Title Seasoning of Ownership issues
If you are in the business of Buying, Fixing, Selling properties and / or Short Sales. Invariably you have run up against this issue. Learn a technique that allows you to thwart seller and lender imposed property Title Seasoning of Ownership issues.
October 17th, 2013
Where Do We Go From Here?
Real Estate markets and Buyer / Seller
Activity move UP and also DOWN
Trends Develop which
often can forecast what direction the market may be heading in the Short Term
Vs Long Term
Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to Listen & Learn from RealtyTrac's own Chief Economist; Jake Adger
He will help us understand how to indentify housing market trends and some of the the various Investment Opportunities that will exist
• What are the current Trends in investor & Cash purchases
• What Trends exist in foreclosure activity and inventories
• Useful Metrics for evaluating markets
• What are the Top markets for Investment (based upon the Data)
Regardless of whether you are a BUY and HOLD property investor or in the business of BUYING/SELLING this promises to be a VERY lively discussion and one you do not want to miss!
Invite your partners, associates, spouse or loved one and gain valuable insight on current market trends.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:
Jake Adger
Chief Economist, RealtyTrac
As chief economist at RealtyTrac, Jake is responsible for analyzing data and trends in the housing market, driving original research directly — and in collaboration with — the research community. Jake also works with the company's product team to provide customers with new products and services that will more easily identify and comprehend various housing market trends and investment opportunities.
Jake brings 11 years of analytics and product management experience to RealtyTrac. His experience spans a diverse group of companies including SuccessFactors, Deloitte Consulting and Ski West. He was most recently a director at SuccessFactors, the leader in cloud business execution software. At SuccessFactors, Adger was responsible for operations in sales tools and free trials. Adger also led the product team for SuccessFactors' "NEXT Labs" initiative to bring consumer software usability to enterprise software.
Prior to joining SuccessFactors, Jake was a consultant at Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, Calif., where he advised large high tech clients on sales and marketing operations. He also served as director of operations at Ski West in Park City, Utah, overseeing the company's customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.
Jake earned a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He earned a bachelor of sciences with a double major in economics and computer science from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
BONUS DISCUSSION
Vacant Houses are usually the Best Deals. Obviously no one is living there, and someone would probably like to get rid of the property, especially if they're are making payments on it.
We will cover (6) Six Ways to
Find
the Owners of Vacant Houses
BAWB Meeting Thursday September 19th 2013
Red Hot, Crazy Frenetic Markets Cannot go on Forever
Fall is coming, followed by the Holiday Season and then Winter Time
The air is getting crisp
Prepare for the CHILL OF THE MARKET...
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Interest rates have significantly moved up
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Lenders have made some changes
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There is uncertainty in the Middle East
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The economy continues to sputter along
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Congress & the President must reach an accord on the Debt Ceiling to continue to fund our Bloated Government Bureaucracy
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Municipalities around the county continue to struggle to rein in run away costs
These factors and many more are starting to creep into the Marketplace here in the SF Bay Area.
Don't miss this months BAWB meeting and insights on how you can safely protect yourself and your investments during this coming Chill.
BAWB Monthly Meeting -Thursday August 15,
2013
Trust Concepts & Strategies
This meeting will expose you the wonderful world of Trusts
Come learn about Land Trusts, Personal Property Trusts, Title Holding Trusts and other Trust Vehicles that you can use for privacy and profit.
The Legendary Jack Miller once said:
"If there is ever a doubt about HOW to take title to a property- put it into a Trust"
Isn't it time you learn and understand the power of Trusts, Title Holding Trusts, Personal Property Trusts among others?
Well you can by Attending this evenings meeting and the fantastic Upcoming; TRUST STRATEGIES & CONCEPTS 2 day information packed Nuts and Bolts workshop with Dyches Boddiford - Check out the INFO and LINK BELOW for more info and details about this NUTS & BOLTS info packed class.
Trust Strategies and Concepts to be held on Sat. & Sun. 8-17 & 8-18 at the South San Francisco Conference Center.
Tonights speaker is Investor, Educator, and Author; Dyches Boddiford
PLUS
Upcoming Workshop
you do
not want to miss:
Sat.
& Sun. August 17th & 18th
This
2 day workshop with Dyches Boddiford and Guests; will give you a
broad understanding of the various types of Trusts, many of their
uses for Real Estate and also other asset types, and also the forms needed
to save you time and money in their creation. We highly recommend you bring
your tax professional and attorney to the class.
Don't Miss this Fabulous workshop and the Fantastic FREE BONUSES for those who PRE-Register
For more information about the FREE bonuses and the workshop, or to register see below;
Trust Concepts & Strategies
Land Trusts and Personal Property Trusts Powerful Legal, Tax & Business Strategies for the Savvy Investor
With Author, Investor, Educator; Dyches Boddiford along with guest experts available to answer your questions.
Sat. & Sun. August 17th & 18th
South San Francisco,CA (right near SFO)
Two Full Days of High Quality Real World Education
Whether you have significant assets or just starting, there will be practical strategies presented that you can use that will save you many times the cost of this conference!
ARE YOU A TARGET?
Take this Test and See for Yourself!
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Are you in business?
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Do you manage rentals?
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Are you a Professional?
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Do you live in a nice house?
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Do you own any property?
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Do you drive a car?
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Do you have employees?
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Do you invest in the market?
If you answered YES to any of the above, you're a potential target of the Urban Terrorist of the 21st Century; the "contingent fee" lawyer who can tie up your assets for years in legal proceedings.
The Solution?
REDUCE
TAXES!
ACHIEVE
FINANCIAL PRIVACY!
PROTECT
ASSETS!
AVOID PROBATE!
BECOME JUDGEMENT PROOF!
This will be a down-to-earth, nuts and bolts class on Land Trusts and Personal Property Trust. No, they are not the be-all and end-all entity for asset protection as some teach. However, they are valuable entities to use in your asset protection plan and to conduct your business affairs.
We will even have a couple of special guests, including a Trust Attorney to answer questions you may have on the topic and a Title Company representative . We will be covering in detail the legal and tax aspects of Land Trusts and other kinds of Trusts what they really do for you and what they do not provide. This will be a reality check! And we will also discuss how Land Trusts fit into an overall business and investment plan.
Even if you have been using Trust and Land Trusts for years, this class will be of value since we will also discuss particular clauses that can strengthen your Trust but they should only be used by an informed investor. And you will be an informed investor after this class.
We will cover practical, everyday techniques you can use to help bulletproof your assets as well as advanced strategies for use when you are ready. You will gain insights on methods others can use to separate you from your hard earned dollars and assets, then how to legally protect yourself.
For Example, just a few of the topics we plan to cover in detail include -
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Myriad of Uses of the Land Trust & Personal Property Trust
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Liability issues
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When a Trust can owe taxes -- Complex & Simple Trusts
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Grantor & Non-Grantor trusts and why it makes a difference
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Land Trusts and the Due-on-Sale clause
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Deeds into Land Trusts
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The importance of Beneficiary Agreements
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Trustee and fiduciary issues
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Title holding trusts for Lease-Options and Land Contracts
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Trusts used in estate planning
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and much more!
BAWB meeting Thurs. July 18th 2013
The Myths and Misconceptions of Real Estate Investing & Insurance.
- I have a Policy - Am I Really Protected?
- What do I need to know when investing in Real Estate and the specific type of Insurance Policy and coverage you might need?
- Do I have enough coverage...Do I have the right coverage?
- Coverage and Price-What's the difference?
- Does my Insurance agent really understand Real Estate investing and how to properly protect me?
Are you a Landlord with Rentals?, Are you in the Buy & Sell renovation business where people are working on your properties?, perhaps you own properties Titled in a Trust or some other entity type.
There is a TON of misconceptions about the various types of insurance
coverage that exist in the marketplace for the Real Estate owner and
investor. What covers 
you if an event happens on
your property involving; fire, slip and falls, dog bite, on site injuries,
wind or storm damage, earthquake, water damage, etc.
Don't find this information out AFTER the fact- be prepared and informed.
Plan on being with us this evening to clear up some of the mystery.
SPEAKER: George Romonsky
"The Insurance Guy"
About our
Speaker:
George has been in the Insurance Industry for over 7 years with a
background as a real estate broker for over 15 years.
Having invested in real estate over 20 years ago doing fix and flips and buy and holds himself, George realized his properties, investments, and future was not fully protected through his current Farmers Agent when he decided to become an agent.
He realized becoming an Independent Insurance Broker was the best way to provide his clients a variety of products and coverage's through multiple companies. He made his mission the education of insurance to the Real Estate Investor.
With
George's background as a real estate broker and prior real estate investor
he brings a plethora of knowledge when it comes to your real estate
investments and making sure that you have the right insurance coverage not
just any coverage.
When it comes to insuring your investments, you want the competence and experience that most agents just don't have in regards to investment properties. George wants to make sure that the real estate investor has the knowledge of the products and services that are available to them in order for them to make informed Insurance decisions. When George isn't educating Investors or working in the office he enjoys getting outdoors wake boarding, fishing and spending time with his 19 year old son.
June 20th 2013
Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid
in Real Estate Investing
With the current marketplace in a state of frenzy its easy for the wannabe real estate investor and even a seasoned pro to get caught up in a lot of the surrounding hype.
In real estate, like many facets of life, it can often times be more useful to know what NOT to do than to know what to do. This months meeting will share 
with you various patterns of mistakes that most people tend to make as beginners (and even the pros make)
If you are able to stay clear of even some of these mistakes before you invest in your first or next property, then you are way ahead of most investors out there.
Our meetings are always filled with tons of high quality information, Education and discussion that you can take home with you. Stay out of trouble – attend this months event- You'll be glad you did.
WORKSHOP Sat. June 29th 2013
Learn the Secrets of Real Estate Success
Real Estate Investing made Easy, Fun, & Profitable
Earn Your first Million (or more)
Making a Million dollars in Real Estate is no longer and option…instead it's a necessity for surviving and thriving during these crazy economic times!
The Good News; with dedication and forethought, this current market is the perfect market to achieve such a goal.
Thursday May 16th 2013 BAWB Regular Monthly Meeting
You've Got Questions?
We've Got Answers (maybe)
Our Real Estate Marketplace is always evolving and
constantly changing.
Join us tonight as we have a panel discussion with individuals who are trying to be active in THIS marketplace as they seek feedback and answers to some of their most pressing questions or issues. These issues might include;
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Time Management issues
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Effective Marketing for deals
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Negotiation issues with difficult sellers
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Overcoming Title
or lien problems -
Bring Sellers down to reality
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How to handle the paperwork
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Legal or Tax issues
This will be an information filled
interactive meeting that you simply do not want to miss.
BAWB Monthly Meeting Thursday 4-25-2013
NOTE: Because of a scheduling conflict out our meeting facility this months meeting is on Thursday 4-25-2013 and not the 3rd Thursday of the month!!
A Time to Reboot?
The Real Estate Marketplace has Heated Up!
There is a TON of Money Chasing Deals
BUT Where are All the Deals?
The Hedge Funds are buying Thousands of Houses
Investors are scrambling to find profitable opportunities
Inventory is Tight
Does Shadow Inventory really exist...
What will be the affect in the marketplace:
The Buy / Sell Model – how long will it flourish - Are there MLS Opportunities or is this wishful thinking
- Are Buying at Auctions the way to go?
- Where and What to Buy
- What will happen with our Rents and Prices?
- Are we poised for the Next Big Run up?
- Will easier financing for Investors return?
Attend this months meeting to get insight and answers to the above and more...
BAWB Thursday March 21, 2013 Meeting
Technology Makeover
The Top 5 Apps for Real Estate Investors
Are you a smartphone or tablet junkie? If so, there are a
ton of great applications for real estate investors that
will help you quickly access information right on your smartphone or tablet.
The nice thing about the apps is they're mobile, portable, and easily travel with you while you are out meeting with sellers and looking at houses.
At This months Meeting – we will be showing some of our favorites, with brief demos and screenshots. Some are for smart phones, and some are for any computer.
We'd like to encourage you to share your favorites as well, so we can all benefit.
Learn how using the right Mobile Apps or Programs can:
- Give you a competitive advantage
- Allow you to be more flexible
- Make your business 100% more efficient
Being efficient plays a huge part in keeping you and your team motivated and focused, while minimizing frustrations all around.
We've compiled a list of the best mobile applications for Real Estate Investors and narrowed that list down to the Top 5 Apps.
These featured apps allow you to:
- Help manage your projects and teams
- Stay on top of new properties as they are listed and price changes
- Pull comps on site
- Manage properties on the fly
- And the coolest real estate app we have ever seen!
Not only will you discover which apps are VERY useful and best, you will get instructions on how to optimize them for your business.
BAWB Thursday February 21, 2013 Meeting
Is this the Right Time to Buy? Have we
reached the bottom of the Market as other so called experts are saying? Is the
worst behind us? Is stabilization of the Marketplace now upon us as many
industry experts are preaching? DO NOT MISS THIS MONTHS
MEETING!
Start off the New Year Informed "listen and learn from our own industry expert"
Speaker: Author of Timing the
Real Estate Market, Statistician, & Investor; Robert
Campbell
Topic: 2013 Housing Forecast -What Will Happen & Why
Program Director Note: Robert has spoken at our meetings in the past and has been incredibly prescient in accurately predicting California Real Estate Market trends.Don't miss his insight at this months meeting…"
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The Campbell Method: A Proven Timing
System that Tells You EXACTLY When to
Buy
and Sell Real Estate to Make Maximum
Profits!
Dear Real Estate
Investor:
Imagine for a moment how you would feel if you could predict major turning
points in the real estate market.
Suppose somebody handed you a 21-year time-tested system that would tell you ahead of time when property values were going to hit a peak … and then when prices were going to hit bottom years later.
If you could
anticipate these kinds of critical real estate events in advance … then not
only could you make spectacular profits, but you could protect your money as
well.
Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it?
Actually, it's
not. The real estate market does signal its future intentions if you know where
to look.
Hello. My name is Robert Campbell and I wrote Timing the Real
Estate Market to help both professionals and ordinary people make
the most money in real estate with the least amount of risk.
I also have my web site; www.realestatetiming.com Based on a major breakthrough in
tracking and predicting real estate trends, my book reveals the real estate
timing technique that I call The Campbell
Method .
As far as I know, The Campbell Method is the only proven method in the world that shows how to accurately anticipate upcoming changes in your local real estate market.
What this means is that when you read Timing the Real Estate Market , you are going to learn how to make and protect your fortune in real estate in the same way that J. Paul Getty, the Rockefellers, Warren Buffett, and other super-rich investors made their fortunes: by focusing on WHEN to buy and sell.
It's true. When it
comes to making money in real estate,
nothing beats good timing.
The reason that The Campbell Method is going to change the way you think about how to buy and sell real estate is that I share my truly remarkable discovery of five key real estate indicators. I call them Vital Signs, and they're able to predict the peaks and valleys of real estate cycles with an almost uncanny accuracy. As leading indicators to what's looming on the horizon for real estate prices, these Vital Sign indicators act like windows into the future, giving you advance notice of approaching trend changes from three to six months before they become obvious to the general public.
Author's Note: Timing the Real Estate Market is used at the University of San Diego by Professor Elaine Worzala. The class: Real Estate Investment. "The logic behind these Vital Sign indicators is air-tight," says Professor Worzala. "I'm very impressed, and my students love your book."
Copies of Timing the Real Estate Market Book will be available for purchase and autograph by Robert Campbell at the meeting.
Upcoming BAWB Sponsored Workshop Saturday January 19th 2013
Become an IRA Dealmaker
Strategies for Tax
Free Investing
By
Walter Wofford
Learn
Insider Information Your Custodian CANNOT & WON'T Tell you about how to
deploy IRA's both for your Personal Wealth building & for leveraging other
IRA owners Capital.
Custodians go to
extremes to avoid being an active advisor. It's not their job! So how do
you learn how to safely and profitably invest your IRA and retirement account
funds?
This is a FULL Day chock full of ideas and examples of how to deploy your own funds or the funds of others for safe, profitable win-win transactions that benefit each party. You will be amazed how you can do more and more business in a tax deferred or tax free environment. The deal making examples are tremendous – don't miss out – Register Early.
Come hear Walter at this
All Day Workshop. You will not only receive his recently recorded "Strategies
for Tax Free Investing Course" materials but you will hear many examples and
ideas not covered in the course.
All attendees will receive a FREE copy of the entire 200+ page course, along with the audio and video sections! – a $500 value!
A valuable FREE Bonus
will be provided to those who Pre-Register by Midnight Tuesday
1-15-2013
Rules of the Road: What you need
to know and not what you don't need to know. A real short cut to
learning
Dealing with your Custodian:
Remember, all transactions are first created in your mind and its your mind not
theirs
Inherited IRA's - Learn how to
incorporate this powerful Multi-Generational wealth building Stratergy before
Congress takes it away.
Personal Property Trusts: Learn
10 Compelling reasons to have this in your backpack! - VERY
IMPORTANT
Tons of Real Life- Real Time
examples of How Business owners can use these techniques within the realm of
their personal business.
More of what will be covered:
- Discovering the Big Picture and Learning the Rules of Engagement
- Top 10 IRA Investment Models Almost Anyone Can Do
- How To Purchase IRA Owned Rentals For Cash
- Need Acquisition Money? Discover How To Borrow From IRAs and Their Owners on Favorable Terms
- Seller Financing For IRA Purchases
- Designer Financing For IRAs
- Graduate to Being a Nobody – Learn How IRAs use Personal Property Trusts and Land Trusts
- Options & IRAs – Learn How To Use Options to Super Charge Your IRA Account
- Joint Ventures & IRAS -Learn How 2 or more IRAs Join Hands to Share the Workload and Profit
- Wraparounds & IRAS
Workshop Tuition
Cost:
BAWB Member if Pre- Registered
$149.00 per person
Non Member if Pre-Registered
$169.00 per person
After Pre-Registration - on a
space available basis $179.00 per person
(No FREE Bonus Given)
For more information about the workshop, brochure or to register please CLICK HERE
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
T
his is our final meeting of the
year!
DON'T MISS OUR
"DOING DEALS HOLIDAY GATHERING"
This is always judged by our attendees to be one of the BEST meetings we have all year.
It's a great way to learn what others are doing, the genesis of their individual transactions, and more importantly where the profit centers are...you'll be amazed at how many different perspectives to doing a deal there are.
This also will be a
great meeting to get to better know your fellow attendees.
Come join us for a festive time of the year meeting and Holiday cheer in an open forum setting.
You are invited to bring your spouse or a loved one for a night out and to
better see what our meetings are all about.
We have several BAWB members tell us their "deal story" which promises to be
informative and fun.
It's been an
incredible year filled with change, tough lessons, and successes.
We hope some of you will share a hard lesson or success from the past year.
Thursday November 15th 2012 BAWB Regular Monthly
Meeting
Lessons Learn this Year!
It has
been quite the year for Real Estate...
There have been
Ups, Downs, Crazy Economic News, REO's, More Short Sales, Foreclosures, Legal
Settlements, new Legal Statutes, discussion and talk about Market
Stabilization, and so forth
We have a panel of local investors visiting with us at our meeting who will discuss some of the Lessons they have learned this past year while providing their take away points. It's a VERY valuable information filled meeting you do not want to miss!
Have you ever wondered:
- Should I buy a home with existing tenants still in it?
- Does Location always matter- what if it's a Helluva deal?
- What's the difference between CLTA and ALTA title insurance
- Is there a better way to travel thru the FHA / VA financing gauntlet?
- How can I minimize costs and expenses when I BUY and also SELL?
- Should I go out of State for Cash Flow and bargain properties?
- What makes my offer stand out versus others?
Be with us on Thursday 11-15-2012 to listen, learn, and get your own Questions Addressed
BAWB Regular Monthly Meeting Thursday October 18th 2012
From The Subprime Mortgage Fallout to the new California Foreclosure,
Bankrupcty,Eviction Legislation known as SB 900;
The
Times they are a Changing.
Speaker: Spencer Scheer, Attorney at Law, Scheer Law Group, LLP
An Essential Overview of California Real
Estate, Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Issues and Trends Facing Secured Creditors
and Real Estate Investors.
If you are the Real Estate Business, private lending, have contemplated loans of have made loans, are a Debtor or Creditor this is an insightful meeting about some of the new compliance issues which have come into play. Avoid costly problems and litigation and learn from Attorney Spencer Scheer whose specialty area of practice is creditor representation.
Here is just a sampling of what you will learn
- Subprime Fallout: What
happened to cause one of the greatest real estate turnarounds in history?
Have things changed forever?
- Inflation or Deflation in
Residential and Commercial Real Estate? Real Estate Trends. What should we
expect?
-
Legal Trends. Should you
buy or sell, rent or lease? You need to be aware of the full arsenal of
rights available to borrowers and lenders to make intelligent real
estate decisions:
- Income Property Issues. Preserving the rights to income is as important as the underlying collateral: Assignment of Rents, Receivers and impact of bankruptcy.
- Bankruptcy issues.
- Bankruptcy can be a "win win" for both sides if used properly and a "graveyard" to creditors who don't.
- "Cram downs" and "lien strips".
- Eviction (Lender-borrower and general Landlord- tenant issues).
- Tenants after foreclosure have enhanced rights under state and federal law. Learn how to spot "phony leases" and avoid scams.
- Recent Legislation, including a general review of the California Homeowners Bill of Rights. –"The Mother of all Foreclosure Reform". Many of the bills have passed. Residential foreclosures will never be the same, for now; But that's not all!!
About Spencer Scheer:
Mr. Scheer has received an AV (highest rating) from Martindale-Hubbell and received a designation as a Northern California "Super Lawyer" by the Thompson Reuters group. He is an effective and successful litigator and has handled over 200 jury and non-jury trials in State and Federal courts, focusing on creditor and real estate litigation matters. Mr. Scheer has a reputation as an attorney who provides superior client service and who gets things done. Mr. Scheer has a diverse legal background that allows him to represent and advise SLG lender, mortgage broker, business and investor clients on a wide variety of legal matters, including: consumer and commercial creditor bankruptcy litigation, real estate litigation, note and trust deed review and litigation, TILA rescission claims, commercial and consumer lease review, general contract review and litigation, landlord tenant litigation, title insurance litigation, real estate transaction and lender and broker liability matters.
Mr. Scheer has been a speaker on issues affecting lender/ servicer rights at numerous seminars, and conventions including: California Mortgage Bankers Association, United Trustee's Association, California Credit Union Collectors Council, Marin County Bar Association-Real Property Section, and the Northern California Consumer Bankruptcy Conference.
Mr. Scheer is also a lecturer and speaker for the California State Bar Association and was a panelist at California State Bar Association Annual Real Property Law Section Retreat, Napa, CA, (Subprime Mortgage Fallout-Lender Perspective (2010); a webinar presenter for the State of California Bar Association, Real Property Section, on Real Property Foreclosure: Recent Legislation and & Case Developments (2011); and was a panelist for the State Bar of California at its Annual convention in Long Beach, CA (2011), Real Estate Foreclosure, How to Get it Right.
Mr. Scheer is licensed attorney in the State of California and is a member of the State of California Real Property Law Section, Marin County Bar Association Real Property Law Section, United Trustee's Association (fka California Trustees Association), and the California Credit Union Collectors Counsel.
For More info about Attorney Spencer Scheer, a Biological profile and some of the cases he has been invovled in click here
BAWB Regular Monthly Meeting
Thursday September 20th 2012
Listen and Learn From the
Master Dealmaker himself Peter Fortunato
This is one meeting you MUST
attend!
There are certain fundamental negotiating and investment techniques that are universal regardless of your location.
This month's featured speaker is Peter Fortunato. Nationally known as an expert in using Real Estate creatively coupled with "paper" to formulate profitable Real Estate Transactions for the buyer, seller, and investor.
Learn how to create profitable Transactions, Income and Wealth- often without cash, credit, or extensive connections.
Discover negotiating techniques and paperwork which make the numbers work and allow for deals to happen.
Visit with us and learn from one of the Masters on how to "Construct" Deals. Hear Pete's clear, patient explanations, and practical insights. Peter rarely visits the Bay area and You Do NOT want to miss this month's meeting. Invite a business partner, associate, friend, and /or loved one, as they will be thankful you did and plan on being with us!
UPCOMING FULL DAY WORKSHOP - Sat
9-22-2012
Learn from the "Master Dealmaker" Himself
Peter
Fortunato
This is a class that everyone can benefit from and should
attend whether you are a beginning or seasoned Investor. Its a wonderful
opportunity to catch Peter live in a rare West Coast SF Bay area visit.
This class is filling fast - Pre-Register early no later than Tuesday 9-18-2012 to get Discounted cost of tuition and a FREE BONUS copy of Jack Miller's timely book;
"Financial Strategies in Uncertain Times"
Workshop Info:
Peter
Fortunato's
Using Skill Sets
& Currencies to
Acquire Assets and Generate Income
If your have certain "Skill Sets", are already in business or aspire to be in business – Pete will cover and discuss the use of Inventory, Investments, and Promises as "Currencies" that can be used other than cash in Business building and in Estate building.
Learn how to acquire Assets and Inventory which can be resold to generate ordinary income and fund your lifestyle.
And
Learn how to acquire Investments which can be held for the production of Portfolio, Passive, and / or Tax advantaged Long Term Capital Gain Income to fund your lifestyle.
This will be quite the valuable day for everyone! As always Pete requests you Challenge him, Ask Questions, and Offer Suggestions and Alternatives.
For more information about the workshop, or to register, go to the following link;
http://www.bawb.info/workshop/
BAWB Regular Monthly Meeting Thursday August 16th 2012
A (2) Two Part Program you do not want to Miss!
Part One
One of the
BEST way to find Deals
in Today's Current Market
Regardless of whether you are in the Buy & Sell Business or are looking for long term Buy and Hold rentals- with available inventory VERY tight…and investors competing with owner user would be homeowners – its getting tougher to find below market deals that one can make money with.
We will share with you one the Best Way to find Deals in Today's market and it may not be what you think.
Speaker; Author, Investor, Educator;
Michael Morrongiello
About Michael Morrongiello
Michael Morrongiello is an active investor and "paper practitioner" who for over 25 years has specialized in Real Estate & Real Estate "Paper" investments. He has bought, sold, or held for investment; multiple properties in several states and thousands of Real Estate secured Mortgages securing all types of residential properties, apartments, mobile home parks, office buildings, development land, businesses, and commercial property, in every state in the Union from Alaska to Hawaii and Florida to California.
Part 2
Creating Marketable Title & Its Importance to the Investor
21 Reasons to Buy Title Insurance
Why the Savvy Property Investor Should Buy a Purchase Binder
Deal Stoppers – Issues on Title that Must be Cleared to Transfer
- What if you use an entity to buy or sell? (Trust, Corporation, LLC)
- How does construction or remodeling affect title?
- Is Marital status important to buy or sell important?
- What if parties are deceased who have legal title…
- What happens if a buyer or seller is in Bankruptcy?
Speaker: Peggy Lickert
AVP, Fidelity National Title
About Peggy
Peggy has been providing service to Real Estate and Lending
professionals since 2002. Peggy strives to find new ways to best service her
clients, while complying with the Department of Insurance rules. The best way
she knows to do that is to research and be knowledgeable about industry
changes, practices and trends affecting title and escrow, and to be available.
A few years ago, she began to develop a particular interest in the default
servicing sector and spent a year developing knowledge and relationships in
that part of the business. Whether it is working directly with Realtors,
Lenders, Investors or managing a large servicer relationship, Peggy is
diligent, conducts business with integrity and is a resourceful problem solver
and a creative thinker.
Thursday
July 19th 2012
Foreclosure Market
Update
Sean O'Toole, Founder / CEO of Foreclosure
Radar
Prior to launching ForeclosureRadar, Sean successfully purchased
and flipped more than 150 residential and commercial foreclosures. Leveraging
15 years in the software industry, Sean used technology as a key competitive
advantage to build his successful real estate investment track record. Sean has
always thrived in startup environments, and as such, became a key contributor
at Xing Technology (acquired by Real Networks), ISI/GlobalCenter (acquired by
Global Crossing), and Icarian, Inc.(acquired by Workstream, Inc.). With his
extensive experience in computers, software development, and business
processes, Sean moved easily into VP and Director level positions in
engineering, product management, sales, marketing and operations. Sean also
served as President of the OpenMPEG Consortium, which brought together 32
companies to define industry standards for video on personal computers.
For more information about Foreclosure Radar go the following link: http://www.foreclosureradar.com/about
Peter Fortunato workshop event in September 2012
All meetings in 2012 will be held on the THIRD THURSDAY of the month.
Our General Monthly Meeting, featuring top-notch national and local entrepreneurs and educators, is held the THIRD THURSDAY of each month at 7:30pm.
Our Roundtable Discussion is hosted monthly by a featured
monitor and begins at 7:00pm, prior to the General
Monthly Meeting.
At 7:30pm, the Property Pitch Session begins. Whether you're
an agent, investor, or property seller, this session provides an opportunity to
present your property and listings to a demographically perfect
audience.
Guest speakers discuss topics to assist investors in acquiring Real Estate often with little or no money down. Future meeting topics include:
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June 21st 2012 Meeting
The California
Great Depression of 2012
SPEAKER:
Stephen Frank
Don't miss this insightful discussion about many of the woes our Great once "Golden State" faces and thoughts for remedy.
You will learn about:
- Our Stagering State Government deficit and debt
- The upcoming Government Pension System Collapse
- The Detrimental Affects on local government (hence Real Estate property values)
- What are the real Reasons for our State's Problems
- Do we have any real Solutions?
Who is Stephen Frank?
He is a long time political activist Human Rights Activist (Freedom is a human right) (Foodie-devotee to The Food Network)
- Born December 2, 1946 in The Bronx, New York
- Graduated from Los Angeles HS and LA City College
- Served in Viet Nam, First Infantry Division
- Received my B.S. from the University of Redlands
- Married for 39 years to my wife Leslie , an educator.
- Has two daughters, Emily 32, a graduate from UC Davis Law School and Amy 32, received her MBA from Pepperdine. And a grand daughter
- Publisher California Political News and Views (capoliticalnews.com)
- Guest 3-5 times per week on various talk radio programs, including segments on KSFO, San Francisco, Brian Sussman show every Monday at 7:05am.
He has worked with numerous Charity Groups, along with D.C. based organizations from Americans for Tax Reform, NRA, and many of the supporting groups of CPAC
Upcoming
Peter Fortunato
FULL DAY Workshop you don't want to miss!
Pre-Register early to get Discounted tuition and a FREE BONUS copy of Jack Miller timely book; "Financial Strategies in Uncertain Times"
Workshop Info:
Using Skill Sets & Currencies to Acquire Assets and Generate Income
If your have certain "Skill Sets", are already in business or aspire to be in business – Pete will cover and discuss the use of Inventory, Investments, and Promises as "Currencies" that can be used other than cash in Business building and in Estate building.
Learn how to acquire Assets and Inventory which can be resold to generate ordinary income and fund your lifestyle.
And
Learn how to acquire Investments which can be held for the production of Portfolio, Passive, and / or Tax advantaged Long Term Capital Gain Income to fund your lifestyle.
Some of the Topics Covered:
- Promises for Property
- Income for Use
- Services for Property
- Growth for Income
- Management for Growth
- Better Security for Better Terms
- Toys for Property
- Property for Property
- Amortization for Cash Flow
- Fixing for Profit
- Income for Yield
- Property for Debt Relief
- Modifications for Property
- Management for Income
- Options for Down Payments
This will be quite the valuable day! As always Pete requests you Challenge him, Ask Questions, and Offer Suggestions and Alternatives.
Don't Wait – Pre- Register Today!
BAWB
Regular Monthly Meeting Thursday May 17th 2012
A Two (2) Part Program
Part 1 - "Call me When you Find a GOOD Deal"
We've all heard this statement in the past... What does it really mean?
Learn
about the "ART" of the deal and Why that is so crucial in this frenzied market
to your success
Deal Structuring Tips and Tricks by Michael Morrongiello
Part 2 - Selling For Top Dollar in Today's Market
Do you Want to sell Your
Properties Quickly and for Top Dollar?
Attend this months meeting to learn insider secrets about how to properly prepare your home for resale.
With the demand for
Qualified Retail buyers intense and buyers becoming VERY picky you need to
bring your property to the market so that it stands out from competing
inventory.
Highlight your property strengths, downplay its weaknesses and appeal to the
greatest possible pool of prospective buyers with these Selling & Staging
tips.
Get your house looking its best and ready for sale within days. Learn Seamless
and economical orchestration of all the small and large details such as
landscaping, touch up, plumbing,electrical, gutter cleaning, clutter removal
and organizing, window washing, pressure washing, painting, storage,interior
design and yes STAGING are some of the services that will allow you to sell
your house fast and for the highest price.
- Creating a marketing plan for your property
- What are the most crucial days from a marketing standpoint
- What Technologies & Tools can assist you in marketing your property
- Photographic image tips and traps ...
- What Glue makes your deals stick
- Why Staging?
- Benefits of Staging- When & Where to Stage?
- What is the Value / Cost proposition
- Partnering with a Staging Firm
- Plenty of Q&A
About Yami Arvelo
Yami Arvelo, founder and designer of MOONES, Inc & MOONEShome, has a keen eye and over 20 years of experience in redesigning spaces, reinventing them and making them uniquely her own. She has renovated and facilitated sales of numerous residential properties in the San Francisco Bay Area from Tiburon to Silicon Valley. With equal parts style and vision, Yami is an interior designer with a strong team of builder contractors and handy man. Whether you are renting an apartment or living in a mansion, MOONES wants to help you create a space filled with pure style and luxury
... a place that will inspire you!
Yami's work has been featured on INTERIOR DESIGN, DWELL, Modern Conteporary Furniture & Home Decorating, Home & Design, Design Journal and Seattle Life & Style publications to name just a few. To date, she has remodeled and staged more than one hundred high end homes and apartments in San Francisco and Marin counties. She has also designed and produced eco-friendly custom lighting for Caesars Palace Hotel Las Vegas, Yoshi's San Francisco, and private residences in Vancouver, Canada and Oahu, Hawaii.
She has revamped, remodeled and staged properties for a top Napa wine producer, Silicon Valley software developers, San Francisco Bay Area real estate brokers, developers/investors, international art collectors, and local artists. She is one of the most successful and devoted all-in-one designer and "turn-key-real estate solutions" providers in the Bay Area. Her work has gained recognition for Excellence in the ADEX 2005.
With her broad design background and international upbringing, Yami brings comfort, timeless style and value to each and every project she works on. Ms Arvelo's experience servicing international clients via innovation and stellar creative comes from her days at Contempo Design in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her extensive travels to Asia, Latin/North America, and Europe has influenced her metropolitan style and personal elan.
Thursday April 19th 2012
Its a new day and age in the world of Real Estate Finance.
Proper and timely funding is the grease the "squeaky wheel" continues to need in order for properties to continue to be bought and sold and for any chance of a housing recovery to take hold.
With mortgage lending activities severely restricted and the availabiltiy of funds for both buyers and sellers limited- this months meeting involves a panel of several different lenders who offer different niche lending programs that cater to activities such as:
* Fixer Upper Loans - both from an institiutional lender standpoint and from a private money lending vantage point.
* First Time and current Home buyers FHA, VA, and Conventional financing programs.
Does Title seasoning of ownership matter?
What about the HVCC- Home Valuation Code of Condut appraisal rules?
What are the various down payment and qualifying criteria?
* Investor loan programs for the investor looking for both Purchase and also Refinance Non Owner Occupied Investor properties
*
Short & Long Term Private Money
lending
* Hard Money- Asset based Lending
Its important to be aware of what is out there in the marketplace as it may affect you - regardless of whether you are an investor looking to acquire properties or to pull cash out through refinancings, or a seller seeking to get cashed out upon the resale of one of your properties.
Join us for what promises to be a very informative meeting.
Due Diligence for Real Estate Investors
Learn how to do your due diligence before you jump into a deal or a joint venture.
Reggie Lal will show you how to analyze the
numbers of a real estate deal to see if it is worth your time! Utilizing
Reggie's iron-clad Deal Analysis Template, you will learn how to analyze
all the possible numbers on a deal to decide if it makes sense. He will
also list resources and advice for doing your own due diligence on people,
deal structuring, joint ventures and organizations as well.
Speaker: Investor, Educator, Realtor, Lender; Reggie Lal
Discussion will touch these and other issues:
- Property Inspection
- Running the numbers
- Deal Structuring
- Securing the deal
- Working with partners
- Using the Proper paperwork
FULL DAY WORKSHOP
Sat. 3-17-2012
South San Francisco Conference Center
Buying & Selling Strategies for these Chaotic Times!
Many Investors are making a small fortune in your backyard using some
powerful marketing & investing techniques that will be taught at this
event.
- Create Long Term Wealth RIGHT NOW rather than Swapping Hours for Dollars
- Learn to Create your own Personal Economy with Cash Flow and Chunks of Cash
- Learn from Reggie Lal & Michael Morrongiello as they teach you various strategies to keep you on the cutting edge for this distress market and to keep you out of harms way.
- No Fluff or Theory - Actual techniques being used in this marketplace by these active investors to make deals happen.
- A Content Rich Event with High Quality Education & Discussion
- Great Networking
Discounted Tuition ONLY if you PRE-Register!
For more information about this Content Rich Workshop Event or to
PRE-Register go to this link;
http://www.bethesmartinvestor.com/Public/Events/Buying-SellingStrategies/index.cfm
IMPORTANT NOTE:
BAWB members can get the Member discount by using coupon code: BAWB2012
BAWB Monthly Meeting Thursday February 16th 2012
GOOD FLIP...BAD FLIP
Speaker;
Mary Morrongiello
Investor, Rehab Project Manager, Design
Consultant
If you in the Buy / Sell Business or you upgrade and renovate properties to enhance their value you don't want to miss this meeting and the discussion involving the tips, tricks, and traps that one needs to be aware of when involved in renovation projects.
About Mary:
Mary Morrongiello has renovated more than 70 homes. She has worked on
projects that required as little as $5,000 in renovation work to
projects costing as much as $800,000 to get to "market ready" and among
all of the destruction, decision making and restoration many , many
lessons have been learned. Continue to Kick off 2012 with what will be
the most candid, hard hitting, brutal presentation of the year! You do
not want to miss this speaker as she's got information you need...
delivered in an entertaining manner.
Among a few of the Topics to be discussed:
- How to quickly know if "The deal makes sense"…
- Common sense fixes that most idiots over look
- Talking yourself into a Bad deal (How and why we do this)
- Mistakes made
in 2011 (never to be repeated)
BAWB Thursday January 19th 2012 Meeting
Say Good Riddance to 2011!
Out with the OLD and in with the NEW YEAR...
Is this the Right Time to Buy? Have we reached the bottom of the Market as other so called experts are saying? Is stabilization of the Marketplace near?
The January Meeting will be held in San Francisco at:
Holiday Inn Golden Gateway
1500 Van Ness Ave
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 441-4000- Hotel Direct #
Start off the New Year Informed "listen and learn from our own industry expert"
Speaker: Author of Timing the Real Estate Market,
Statistician, & Investor; Robert Campbell
Topic: 2012 Housing Forecast -What Will Happen & Why
Program Director Note: Robert has spoken at our meetings in the past and has been incredibly prescient in accurately predicting California Real Estate Market trends.Don't miss his insight at this months meeting…"
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The Campbell Method: A Proven Timing
System that Tells You EXACTLY When to Buy
and Sell Real Estate to Make Maximum
Profits!
Dear Real Estate Investor:
Imagine for a moment how you would feel if you could predict major turning
points in the real estate market.
Suppose somebody handed you a 21-year time-tested system that would tell you ahead of time when property values were going to hit a peak … and then when prices were going to hit bottom years later.
If you could anticipate these kinds of
critical real estate events in advance … then not only could you make
spectacular profits, but you could protect your money as well.
Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it?
Actually, it's not. The real estate
market does signal its future intentions if you know where to
look.
Hello. My name is Robert Campbell and I wrote Timing the Real
Estate Market to help both professionals and ordinary people
make the most money in real estate with the least amount of
risk.
I also have my web site; www.realestatetiming.com Based on a major breakthrough in
tracking and predicting real estate trends, my book reveals the real estate
timing technique that I call The Campbell
Method .
As far as I know, The Campbell Method is the only proven method in the world that shows how to accurately anticipate upcoming changes in your local real estate market.
What this means is that when you read Timing the Real Estate Market , you are going to learn how to make and protect your fortune in real estate in the same way that J. Paul Getty, the Rockefellers, Warren Buffett, and other super-rich investors made their fortunes: by focusing on WHEN to buy and sell.
It's true. When it comes to making money
in real estate,
nothing beats good timing.
The reason that The Campbell Method is going to change the way you think about how to buy and sell real estate is that I share my truly remarkable discovery of five key real estate indicators. I call them Vital Signs, and they're able to predict the peaks and valleys of real estate cycles with an almost uncanny accuracy. As leading indicators to what's looming on the horizon for real estate prices, these Vital Sign indicators act like windows into the future, giving you advance notice of approaching trend changes from three to six months before they become obvious to the general public.
Author's Note: Timing the Real Estate Market is used at the University of San Diego by Professor Elaine Worzala. The class: Real Estate Investment. "The logic behind these Vital Sign indicators is air-tight," says Professor Worzala. "I'm very impressed, and my students love your book."
Copies of Timing the Real Estate Market will be available for purchase and autograph by Robert Campbell at the meeting.
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
This
is our final meeting of the year!
DON'T MISS
OUR
"DOING DEALS HOLIDAY GATHERING"
This is always judged by our attendees to be one of the BEST meetings we have all year.
It's a great way to learn what others are doing, the genesis of their individual transactions, and more importantly where the profit centers are...you'll be amazed at how many different perspectives to doing a deal there are.
This also
will be a great meeting to get to better know your fellow attendees.
Come join us for a festive time of the year meeting and Holiday cheer in an open forum setting.
You are
invited to bring your spouse or a loved one for a night out and to better see
what our meetings are all about.
We have several BAWB members tell us their "deal story" which promises to be
informative and fun.
It's
been an incredible year filled with change, tough lessons, and
successes.
We hope some of you will share a hard lesson or success from the past year.
November
17th BAWB Meeting- A (2) Two Part Informative Program you simply do not want to
miss!
Part
1:
Doing Real Estate
Right
Making Big Money Close to Home in Good Markets or
Bad
Speaker: Local Investor; Richard
Kelly
- How to find high-profit deals within 30-minutes of your home
- How to find and buy from prospects with lots of equity
- How to make offers that will make you big money
- Negotiation techniques that will supercharge your deal
- How to find seller financing here in the Bay Area
- Step-by-step case studies of actual local deals
Richard Kelly
is an investor who has grown his real estate business in his back yard -- right
here in the Bay Area. His focus is doing real estate right: keeping it simple
and profitable in good times and bad. His presentation will outline how he
finds and signs deals, and offer a step-by-step look case studies of his actual
deals, revealing how he did it, and how you can, too!
Richard Kelly has been a full-time real estate investor for the past six years.
Before switching into investment, Mr. Kelly worked was a journalist for 12
years. He has a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance. A Canadian, he has
called the Bay Area home for the past 15 years.
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Part
2:
The 10 Point Housing Recovery Plan!
Hey, Washington are you listening?
With Housing still struggling across the country and here in the immediate Bay Area our speaker will share his poignant thoughts on effective policy changes which if implemented could jump start a stabilization of this vicious downward spiraling housing market.
Here are a few:
- Repeal the over reaching Dodd- Frank Financial Services Regulation Bill
- Bring
back accelerated method Depreciation to encourage Real Estate ownership
and to soak up some of this excess inventory
- Lift the $25,000.00 limitation or ceiling on passive losses
To
learn and hear about the rest - be sure to visit with us!
October
20th 2011 - A Two Part Program
Part One -
Techonology Talk for Real Estate Agents & Investors
Whether your an investor or agent - Learn how to be more efficient in running your business, getting back to clients, customers, making offers, and handing day to day tasks and followup. Don't miss this insight.
Speaker; Investor Ford Chiang
A few topics to be covered:
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Creative uses of Technology for small businesses
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Digital signatures so you can sign anywhere
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Telecommunications tools to stay connected
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Into the cloud - files online, synchronization, aggregation
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Social Networking- easy updating and finding friends a little easier
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Making Craigslist a little better
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Tracking expenses and accounts all in one place
About our Speaker:
Ford Chiang graduated from the University of California
with a degree in Economics in 1999 but
had a thirst for technology. He spent the next 7 years working in the IT industry in various
positions from technical support to
systems administration. At the turn of 2008 he quit a secure job at University of Calfornia because he
saw great opportunities in the real
estate market. Since then he has applied his technical experience in helping his family build a
portfolio of real estate rentals as
well as shared his knowledge with others in his field. Ford's personal experience has a heavy emphasis on
wireless technology, collaboration and
mobile tools.
Part Two -
The Repurchase Market - Looming Danger Ahead
About our Speaker; Mary Fricker
Mary Fricker is an independent journalist living in
Sebastopol who has retired after 20 years as a business reporter for The Santa
Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat, including many years covering the real estate
beat. In 2010 she was awarded the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from
the University of Georgia for her work with the Chauncey Bailey Project in
Oakland, Calif. (www.chaunceybaileyproject.org). Among her awards are three
Investigative Reporters & Editors awards, the UCLA Gerald Loeb Award, the
George Polk award, several New York Times Company Chairman's Awards, the
National Headliner Award and an Associated Press award for best business
reporting. She was co-author of the New York Times best-selling book "Inside
Job - The Looting of America's Savings and Loans" published by McGraw-Hill
(1989) and HarperCollins (1990).
A Bad Rap for the Mortgage & Real Estate Industry's?
The real estate and mortgage industry has gotten a bad rap, as the cause of the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Yes, there were big troubles in real estate and in mortgage lending. But the most fundamental cause of the financial crisis in 2007-2008 was not subprime mortgages, it was the $5-10 trillion repurchase (repo) market, where giant financial institutions used subprime mortgage securities as collateral to get loans. When subprime borrowers began to default, the repo lenders panicked and stopped lending to the banks. That was the credit freeze that caused the crisis in September 2008.
In other words, the crisis was not caused by property owners borrowing too much money, it was caused by giant financial institutions borrowing too much money, much of it on the repurchase market.
Why should you care about this?
Some of the new rules for property transactions are not needed, since fixing mortgages will not prevent the next financial crisis if repo lenders panic over a different kind of collateral (like Greek debt) or hear a false rumor and panic for no reason at all.
To prevent the next financial crisis, we need to settle on reforms for the repurchase market.
Economists have made some suggestions. Visit with us as we talk about them. If nothing is done, expect more turmoil.
September 15th, 2011 BAWB Meeting Date
Speaker;
Author, Investor, Educator; "Fixer Jay"
Decima
INVESTING JAY'S WAY
MULTIPLE UNITS
(COLONIES)
Don't miss this rare opportunity to listen and learn from one of the old time masters and his wisdom involving the acquistion and management of small multi unit rentals. Make it out to this event and invite an associate, friend, family member, or loved one- they will be glad you did.
Learn About the 12 BENEFITS:
* RECESSION PROOF Property
* QUICKER CASH FLOW & MORE cash flow
* VERY LOW RISK
* IDEAL FAMILY BUSINESS
* HIGH DEMAND RENTAL UNITS
* YEAR ROUND INCOME
* SELLER FINANCING (MOSTLY without Banks)
* EZ EQUITY LOANS
* FAST EQUITY BUILDUP
* FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
* SELF EMPLOYMENT
* Building a WORRY-FREE RETIREMENT
August
18th 2011 Meeting
WORLD IN CHANGES...
We've got a lot to learn about you
too....
The dog days of summer continue on as congress finally got their act together to raise our Nations debt ceiling.However instead of instilling confidence and stability to our economy- we've seen tremendous push back as skittish markets have reacted in a manner that was unthought of.
This is a First - We've never done this type of Meeting
format before
Tonights meeting will be a discussion of how folks like yourselves see the Real Estate Investment marketplace.
- Is stabilization near?
- Has the Housing market found a firm footing?
- What is going to happen to Interest Rates?
- When will the Jobs return?
- Whats up with consumer confidence...
- What is the Banks and
Asset Managers real game plan to
sort out this mess?
Attendees will share from their "perspective" and what Prism they are looking through their outlook about Real Estate and what does it tell them about the here and NOW and the Future.
We will try to make it an
interactive event with a "Town Hall" feel to it.
The focus is on current opportunities and what folks feel will be the
ones presenting themselves in the near future.
ADDED BONUS;
Speaker:
Author, Investor,
Educator
Greg Pinneo
will discuss:
"What our Entrepreneurial Focus should be in these uncertain economic times."
About Greg Pinneo
Gregory Pinneo is a Northwest native and a graduate of the University of Washington. For over 30 years Greg has been a full time real estate entrepreneur and has become a recognized expert in acquisition, finance, negotiation, property management, and the philosophical mindset that makes possibility a reality.
A natural entrepreneur and motivator, Greg gives his audiences a challenge to live a more deliberate life. His message is one of focus and possibility, as well as delivering sound tools to make these possibilities a reality in peoples' lives. His many students and seminar participants remain in touch and look to Greg as mentor and friend.
BAWB Monthly Meeting -Thursday July 21st
2011
Trust Concepts & Strategies
This meeting will expose you the wonderful world of Trusts
Come learn about Land Trusts, Personal Property Trusts, Title Holding Trusts and other Trust Vehicles that you can use for privacy and profit.
The Legendary Jack Miller once said:
"If there is ever a doubt about HOW to take title to a property- put it into a Trust"
Isn't it time you learn and understand the power of Trusts, Title Holding Trusts, Personal Property Trusts among others?
Well you can by Attending this evenings meeting and the fantastic Upcoming; TRUST STRATEGIES & CONCEPTS 2 day information packed Nuts and Bolts workshop with Dyches Boddiford and Guests. - Check out the link for more info and details about this NUTS & BOLTS info packed class.
Trust Strategies and Concepts to be held on Sat. & Sun. 7-23 & 7-24 at the South San Francisco Conference Center.
Tonights speaker is Investor, Educator, and Author; Dyches Boddiford
PLUS
Upcoming Workshop You do not want to Miss
Sat.
& Sun. July 23rd & 24th
This 2 day
workshop with Dyches Boddiford and Guests; including a Trust Attorney,
Title Company representative and others will give you a broad understandning of
the various types of Trusts, many of their uses for Real Estate and also
other asset types, and also the forms needed to save you time and money in
their creation. We highly recommend you bring your tax professional and
attorney to the class.
Don't Miss this Fabulous workshop and the Fantastic FREE BONUSES for those who pre-register
For more information about the FREE bonuses and the workshop, or to register see below;
Trust Concepts & Strategies
Land Trusts and Personal Property Trusts Powerful Legal, Tax & Business Strategies for the Savvy Investor
With Author, Investor, Educator; Dyches Boddiford along with several guest experts available to answer your questions.
Sat. & Sun. July 23rd & 24th
South San Francisco,CA (right near SFO)
Two Full Days of High Quality Real World Education
Whether you have significant assets or just starting, there will be practical strategies presented that you can use that will save you many times the cost of this conference!
ARE
YOU A TARGET?
Take this Test and See for Yourself!
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Are you in business?
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Do you manage rentals?
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Are you a Professional?
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Do you live in a nice house?
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Do you own any property?
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Do you drive a car?
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Do you have employees?
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Do you invest in the market?
If you answered YES to any of the above, you're a potential target of the Urban Terrorist of the 21st Century; the "contingent fee" lawyer who can tie up your assets for years in legal proceedings.
The Solution?
REDUCE
TAXES!
ACHIEVE
FINANCIAL PRIVACY!
PROTECT
ASSETS!
AVOID
PROBATE!
BECOME JUDGEMENT PROOF!
This will be a down-to-earth, nuts and bolts class on Land Trusts and Personal Property Trust. No, they are not the be-all and end-all entity for asset protection as some teach. However, they are valuable entities to use in your asset protection plan and to conduct your business affairs.
We will even have a couple of special guests, including a Trust Attorney to answer questions you may have on the topic and a Title Company representative . We will be covering in detail the legal and tax aspects of Land Trusts and other kinds of Trusts what they really do for you and what they do not provide. This will be a reality check! And we will also discuss how Land Trusts fit into an overall business and investment plan.
Even if you have been using Trust and Land Trusts for years, this class will be of value since we will also discuss particular clauses that can strengthen your Trustâ€but they should only be used by an informed investor. And you will be an informed investor after this class.
We will cover practical, everyday techniques you can use to help bulletproof your assets as well as advanced strategies for use when you are ready. You will gain insights on methods others can use to separate you from your hard earned dollars and assets, then how to legally protect yourself.
For Example, just a few of the topics we plan to cover in detail include -
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Myriad of Uses of the Land Trust & Personal Property Trust
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Liability issues
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When a Trust can owe taxes -- Complex & Simple Trusts
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Grantor & Non-Grantor trusts and why it makes a difference
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Land Trusts and the Due-on-Sale clause
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Deeds into Land Trusts
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The importance of Beneficiary Agreements
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Trustee and fiduciary issues
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Title holding trusts for Lease-Options and Land Contracts
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Trusts used in estate planning
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and much more!
Click here for the upcoming Workshop details.
June 16th 2011
Secrets to Getting your REO offers Accepted!
REO's (Repossesed Real Estate Properties Owned by Banks)
continue to hit the market and many expect this to run on for several more
years as the foreclosures continue and an attempt to flush out all
of this distress inventory properties takes
place.
You don't want to miss tonights meeting as we will have (2) two very active REO
agents share with us their insider secrets to constructing and presenting
your offers to lenders and asset managers and more importantly how to get them
accepted!
How to Work with an REO Agent
Topics that will be covered:
-
Understanding Current REO / Foreclosure Inventory
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How Government Legislation Affects the Current Market
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Predictions and Forecasting for so called Shadow Inventory
- Who is Buying? and Who is Selling?
- Do Short Sales Really Work? Why or Why not?
- How To Survive and Thrive in Today's Competitive Marketplace
- Prospering In An Ever Changing Market
-
Investment Concerns in Current Market
Ty Leon-Guerrero is the Broker/ Owner of the Real Estate office,
Team1Realty. Since beginning his Real Estate career in 1994, Ty has
successfully sold and closed well over 1500 properties in the Bay Area. As an
investor, he has personally bought and sold over 200 properties as rentals,
"Fix and Flip" repositioning, and development projects. Currently, Ty is
actively involved in all phases of Foreclosure Real Estate and has the
knowledge and tools to guide prospective buyers and investors throughout any
transaction process.
About Joseph
McNulty – MBA and Real Estate Broker
Proven financier, businessman, executive, entrepreneur and Real Estate broker
with more than 18 years of diverse experience in the fields of residential
mortgage lending, single-family residential sales, single-family home
construction, and small business acquisitions. Expertise in marketing and
selling distressed properties and all phases of construction
projects.
BAWB May 19th, 2011 Meeting
This months BAWB meeting is a very informative
Two Part Program You Don't Want to Miss!
Part 1
California Prosperity:
Understanding Today and How to Return Prosperity to the Golden
State
Now more than ever, it is vital that our policy responses are guided by the principles that best preserve the essence of America- its entrepreueurial spirit, belief in the dignity of individuals, and vigilant defense of liberty.
- Measuring and Understanding the State's Economic Performance
- Providing Incentives and Disincentives...
- How do Taxes affect Economic Performance in California?
- Are we getting real Value-for-Money from Sacramento or is there a better way?
- Solutions for the Future and a California recovery
SPEAKER:
Jason
Clemens, Director of Research for the Pacific Research Institute.
About Jason Clemens:
Jason Clemens is
the Director of Research at the San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute.
Prior to joining PRI he held a number of positions at the Canadian-based Fraser
Institute over a ten-plus year period. He has an Honors Bachelors Degree of
Commerce and a Masters’ Degree in Business Administration from the University
of Windsor as well as a Post Baccalaureate Degree in Economics from Simon
Fraser University. He has published over 50 major studies on a wide range of
topics, including taxation, government spending, labor market regulation,
banking, welfare reform, productivity, and entrepreneurship. He has published
over 250 shorter articles, which have appeared in such newspapers as The Wall
Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, the Washington Post, and a host of
U.S., Canadian, and international newspapers. Mr. Clemens has been a guest on
numerous radio and television programs across Canada and the United States,
including ABC News. He has appeared before committees of both the House of
Commons and the Senate in Canada as an expert witness and briefed state
legislatures in California. In 2006, he received the coveted Canada’s Top 40
Under 40 award presented by Caldwell Partners as well as an Odyssey Award from
the University of Windsor. In 2011, he was awarded (along with his co-authors)
the prestigious Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award for the
best-selling book The Canadian Century.
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PART 2
Adding Value Through Deconstruction!
Speaker: Mila Zelkha, Developer, Associate AIA,
Realtor, and owner of
Mint Condition Homes, LLC
Oakland, CA
Mila will
share her redevelopment company's unique and innovative approach as they
wrestle with the following issues:
- Is there a viable alternative to "flipping"?
- How can we offer a refreshing and thoughtful design?
- How to incorporate Green design materials & Methods
- Is there an way to create an Alternative Appraisal Market?
- Ways to effect overall market transformation...
April
21st BAWB Meeting
Tonight's discussion will be from (3) Three
different Local Investors who are Deploying Different Techniques to work our
current Marketplace.
It's a Meeting you don't want to
Miss!
The Areas to be Covered will
Include:
Trustee Sales - Buying Properties right at the Courthouse
Steps During Trustee Sale Auctions
-
What is the process- an overview
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What properties to Target and Why -
Can you get Title Insurance?
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How Do you fund such purchases
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Are their Deals to be had?
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Tips, Tricks, Traps, and Travesties..
WHOLESALE PROPERTIES FOR IMMEDIATE CASH
PROFITS
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What Properties make the most sense -
How to find the below market deals
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Types of Marketing to find deals with "Meat on the Bone"
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What type of closing to orchestrate and expect
-
Making sure your buyer doesn't flake
BUYING TO SELL
OR HOLD WITH CREATIVE TERMS & NON BANK FINANCING
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Which properties are the best Candidates
-
How to determine value and make your offer
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Where do the funds come from?
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How to structure your deal with multiple exit strategies
-
Logistics, Paperwork, Realties of a Sellers Mindset
Using Private Placement Offerings to Raise Capital
Speaker: Attorney Bruce E.
Methven
Whether the need for capital is for Real Estate investment opportunities, a business concept, invention or startup;
Getting money shouldn't be difficult, but getting the right money at the right time on the right terms is what matters.
At
this Meeting – you will hear discussion on:
- The
Two Rules-
Rule No. 1: Raise money before you need it.
Rule No. 2: You always need it sooner than you think. - What is a syndication?
- What about Entities…
- Who is considered an accredited investor today?
- Common Mistakes to Learn from when trying to raise Capital
- About Sources of private lenders / investors
- What type of documentation is require in an offering
- Learn how to raise money without violating the securities laws.
- Learn when "finders" can be used to help you raise money.
- Learn the Pros and Cons of the different federal and California exemptions for raising money.
About our Speaker:
Bruce E.
Methven is the principal of Methven & Associates (www.methvenlaw.com) a
business‑law firm based in Berkeley. He graduated from Boalt Hall School
of Law
(U.C. Berkeley) in 1980.
His law firm forms business entities; structures real‑estate deals; handles securities-law work for offerings to investors; reviews contracts, leases and licenses; files trademark applications; advises on real-estate, business and employment law; handles probates, particularly those involving real estate; and represents clients in commercial litigation and arbitration.
February 17th, 2011
Claude "The
Mentor" Diamond
On
February 17th, 2011 The Bay Area Wealth Builders Association welcomes back
option investor and author Claude "The Mentor" Diamond with his new 2011
Lease Purchase Success System for California Creative Real Estate.
Claude believes in the following,
which he learned from his Mentor Max:
"Why own when you can Control?"
"No more Tenants and Terlits!"
"You make your money, up-front, in every deal."
"Life is too short to drink cheap wine and drive a used
Yugo."
"Sales, Marketing and Negotiation are the Million Dollar
Skills."
Claude
is a fellow California Investor, who for 26 years, has created a wonderful
lifestyle working out of his homes thanks to creative real estate. He
spends his time in San Diego, California, Winter Park, Colorado, NYC, NY (ya
know) and Maui, Hawaii.
Claude will discuss Lease Purchase and
wealth building Strategies including:
*How to profit up-front, every month and at the end of every deal with Lease
Purchasing*
*How to create first class notes and generate passive income with
options*
*How to consult in Creative Real Estate and generate consistent monthly cash
flow*
*How to use his unique Arbitrage Strategy -"Get a contract
and get out."*
*Sandwich Leasing-Assignments-Hybrids-Wholesaling and so much more*
*The
G.U.T.S.™ Sales-Marketing Success System-Never make a cold call again and
qualify the
prospect in 3 minutes!*.
*The
State of The State of California: When are we going to get our Sh*t
Together?*
Claude is a person committed to improving the quality of peoples' lives through
the ancient art of One-on-One Mentoring, just as his mentor
did for him.
His motto has always been "Success, One Person at a
Time".
Claude Diamond is the author of the following
books:
Lease Purchasing for the 21st Century©
The Lease Purchase Bible©
The Mentor Teaches Success©
The Mentor Teaches The G.U.T.S.™ Success System©
Consulting, Coaching and Mentoring in Creative Real Estate©
The Mentor and the Success Gauntlet© (coming in 2011)
He is
also the publisher of The Lease Purchase Times©
newsletter.
Note: Complimentary subscription for Bay Area Wealth Builders members, go
to www.TheLeasePurchaseTimes.com.
Claude and his wife Claudia are the founders of the
innovative Diamond Consulting Group. He specializes in
One-On-One Mentoring and Success Training with his innovative G.U.T.S.™ Success
Method.
Claude holds a degree in business and a Juris Doctorate in Law. He addresses
investment clubs and corporations around the United States. He speaks at
national seminars and conventions on the subjects of Lease Purchasing/Creative
Real Estate, The New G.U.T.S.™ Sales System, Personal and Business
Achievement and Wealth Creation. He is the creator and producer of several
contemporary CD and DVD sets dealing with success. His most recent success
novel "The Mentor, A Story of Success" is a best seller on www.Amazon.com and www.claudediamond.com.
Be sure to visit with us!
Here's your opportunity to learn personally from the undisputed master of this Science of Wealth Creation, Personal Achievement and Peak Performance. Find out why so many people from all over the world have benefited from his unique One-On-One Mentoring Approach to Success.
BAWB Thursday January 20th 2011 Meeting
Say Good Riddens to 2010!
Out with the OLD and in with the NEW YEAR...
Is this the Right Time to Buy? Have we reached the bottom of the Market as other so called experts are saying? Is stabilization of the Marketplace near?
The January Meeting will be held in San Francisco at:
Holiday
Inn Golden Gateway
1500 Van Ness Ave
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 441-4000- Hotel Direct #
Start off the New Year Informed –listen and learn from our own industry expert…
Speaker: Author of Timing the Real Estate Market, Statistician,
& Investor; Robert Campbell
Topic: 2011 Housing Forecast -What Will Happen & Why
Program Director Note: "Robert has spoken at our meetings in the past and has been incredibly prescient in accurately predicting California Real Estate Market trends.Don't miss his insight at this months meeting…"
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The Campbell Method: A Proven Timing
System that Tells You EXACTLY When to Buy
and Sell Real Estate to Make Maximum Profits!
Dear Real Estate Investor:
Imagine for a moment how you would feel if you could predict major turning
points in the real estate market.
Suppose somebody handed you a 21-year time-tested system that would tell you ahead of time when property values were going to hit a peak … and then when prices were going to hit bottom years later.
If you could anticipate these kinds
of critical real estate events in advance … then not only could you make
spectacular profits, but you could protect your money as well.
Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it?
Actually, it's not. The real estate
market does signal its future intentions if you know where to look.
Hello. My name is Robert Campbell and I wrote Timing the Real Estate
Market to help both professionals and ordinary people make the most
money in real estate with the least amount of risk.
I also have my web site; www.realestatetiming.com Based on a major breakthrough in
tracking and predicting real estate trends, my book reveals the real estate
timing technique that I call The Campbell Method .
As far as I know, The Campbell Method is the only proven method in the world that shows how to accurately anticipate upcoming changes in your local real estate market.
What this means is that when you read Timing the Real Estate Market , you are going to learn how to make – and protect – your fortune in real estate in the same way that J. Paul Getty, the Rockefellers, Warren Buffett, and other super-rich investors made their fortunes: by focusing on WHEN to buy and sell.
It's true. When it comes to making
money in real estate,
nothing beats good timing.
The reason that The Campbell Method is going to change the way you think about how to buy and sell real estate is that I share my truly remarkable discovery of five key real estate indicators. I call them "Vital Signs," and they're able to predict the peaks and valleys of real estate cycles with an almost uncanny accuracy. As "leading indicators" to what's looming on the horizon for real estate prices, these Vital Sign indicators act like windows into the future, giving you advance notice of approaching trend changes from three to six months before they become obvious to the general public.
Author's Note: Timing the Real Estate Market is used at the University of San Diego by Professor Elaine Worzala. The class: Real Estate Investment. "The logic behind these Vital Sign indicators is air-tight," says Professor Worzala. "I'm very impressed, and my students love your book."
Copies of Timing the Real
Estate Market will be available for purchase and autograph by Robert Campbell
at the meeting.
BAWB
December 16th, 2010 Meeting
NOTE: Our NEW Meeting Location Best Western Corte Madera Inn
56 Madera Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
(415) 924-1502 - hotel direct
This
is our final meeting of the year!
DON'T MISS OUR "DOING DEALS HOLIDAY GATHERING"
This is always judged by our attendees to be one of the BEST meetings we have all year.
It's a great way to learn what others are doing, the genesis of their individual transactions, and more importantly where the profit centers are...you'll be amazed at how many different perspectives to doing a deal there are.
This
also will be a great meeting to get to better know your fellow
attendees.
Come join us for a festive time of the year meeting and Holiday cheer in an open forum setting.
You are
invited to bring your spouse or a loved one for a night out and to better see
what our meetings are all about.
We have several BAWB members tell us their "deal story" which promises to be
informative and fun.
It's been an incredible year
filled with change, tough lessons, and successes.
We hope some of you will share a hard lesson or success from the past year.
A Two Part Meeting:
Part 1
"A Memory is a Terrible Thing to Waste..."
Join us tonight and don't miss out on what's guaranteed to be a highly entertaining, productive, and shall we dare say UNFORGETTABLE meeting.
Never Forget Another Name!
(or anything else for that matter)
Every computer runs faster
and better when its allowed to
operate at its full capacity.
Your Brain is no
exception. As a matter of fact,
there's no more powerful computer in the world!
How many times
has it happen to you....Where you've met someone for the first time....and no
sooner did the handshake break with that person...
AND You've
already forgotten their Name?!
Would you like to be Able to:
> Instantly recall the names of your clients and prospects?
> Remember important dates, times and appointments?
> Remember
complex lists of things you need to do or
buy...without ever having to write anything down?
> DOUBLE your
INCOME while cutting your stress in half?
> Just improve your overall memory -PERIOD?
Be sure to join us as you'll come away with a few good
Ideas on how a better memory will increase your efficiency,
productivity, and selling ability for Real Estate Investors
and have fun in the process.
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Part 2
Special Mystery Speaker
The
"Japanification"
Of America!
The FED recently moved to drive down interest
rates
even lower than they already are.
How will this effect our Economy and Real Estate Values?
> Few Nations in Recent History have seen a striking reversal of
Economic Fortune as Japan
> Japan rode to Economic dominance one of the Great speculative Stock
Market and Real Estate Bubbles of all time in the
1980's.....only
to see the bubbles popped in the late 1980's and early
1990's
> For nearly a generation now the
Japanese nation has been trapped
in low growth and a corrosive downward spiral of
prices,
known as Deflation.
> Now, as the United States and other Western Nations struggle to
recover from debt and property bubble's of their own a
growing
number of Economists are pointing to Japan as a dark vision
of our future.
> Just as Inflation scarred a generation of Americans,
DEFLATION has left a deep imprint on the
Japanese.
Economists are now warning of the possible
"Japanification" of America
- the same deflationary trap of collapsed demand that occurs when
consumers refuse to consume, corporations hold back on making
investments and banks in a tight credit market sit on cash.
Join us for this insightful discussion!
BAWB
October 21st 2010 Meeting
How Sweet Deals Go Sour...
Speaker:
Real Estate Broker, Author, Expert Witness Cari Lynn Pace
Cari Lynn Pace has been a real estate broker for 36 years and is in demand as a
real estate expert witness for testimony in litigation and mediation.
A former President of the Marin Association of Realtors, Pace writes and
instructs statewide courses accredited by the Department of Real Estate.
Her latest book "Don't Shoot Me...I'm Just the Real Estate Agent!"
reveals
the top 100 red flags for real estate sellers and buyers. She's
been
interviewed on ABC television, KGO radio, and many other consumer affairs
programs. Her program for BAWB is "How Sweet Deals Go Sour".
Here
are a few of the points she will cover which include:* When
selling, how can you protect yourself from lawsuits?
* What are the warning signs when you are buying property?
* What must your real estate agent disclose to you?
* What do real estate agents NOT have to disclose?
* What rude surprises come up when you buy a short sale?
* Why don't people buy at foreclosure sales?
* Where is all this inventory that lenders have foreclosed?
* How can you save money on closing costs?
Ms.
Pace will be available to autograph copies of her book,
available for $20 cash or check, after the program.
BAWB Monthly Meeting Thursday September 16th, 2010
NOTE: Our NEW Meeting Location Best Western Corte
Madera Inn
56 Madera Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
(415) 924-1502 - hotel direct
This months Meeting will be a Multi Part Program with special added Bonus (please read below):
PART I
The "Checkbook"
IRA
LLC Attorney, Educator, Author, Radio Host;
Michael
Yesk
* What
is the "checkbook" style IRA
* Why would you want one
* What can you invest in...
* What are the Limitations
* What are some of the Risk's & Rewards
About Michael Yesk
Michael J. Yesk is the President of Adelphi Retirement, LLC, an administrator
of Self-Directed IRA accounts. In his 24 years as an attorney Michael has
helped thousands of clients legally save millions of dollars in taxes on their
investments.
Prior to joining Adelphi, Michael was the attorney-manager of the Northern California and Hawaii region for a national Qualified Intermediary for 1031 tax deferred exchanges for 12 years. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and his JD degree from the University of San Francisco. Mr. Yesk teaches accredited courses to investors, real estate agents, escrow officers, accountants and attorneys.
Michael is the co-author of "The Real Estate Investment Flow Chart," which helps investors get started on the road to real estate wealth, and then to move from the residential real estate investment market to the commercial real estate market with www.browndevelopments.com
Michael is currently the co-host of the radio show Going Beyond Real
Estate, www.goingbeyondrealestate.com. Michael spent 5 years as the host
of the popular Sunday morning radio show Rock, Roll and Real Estate www.rockrollandrealestate.com
PART II
WHAT IS WORKING NOW?
Audience members will share their take on what they are curently doing in today's uncertain marketplace and their strategies for the coming months.
Listen and learn invaluable insights and tips from your fellow attendees about the techniques they are deploying to survive and thrive in our market.
BONUS SESSION:
If you are dealing with Property sellers and customers who are facing
foreclosure you often fall under California Civil Code Section 1695.
There is a special "Home Equity Sales Contract" which must be used under these circumstances to comply. However even the existing CAR- California Association of Realtors approved contract contains some defective flaws surroudning the way it was drafted and its language you need to be aware of.
Find out What those potential "mine fields" are and how to avoid them!
BAWB Monthly Meeting Thursday August 19th, 2010
NOTE: Our NEW Meeting Location
Best Western Corte Madera
Inn
56 Madera Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
(415) 924-1502 - hotel direct
Why the Housing Market
Hasn't Recovered…
The Eisenhower Years
From a historical standpoint many people look back at the Eisenhower years when Dwight David Eisenhower served as President for eight years from 1953 to 1961 as a "quiet" era. During Dwight's time in office, home ownership was on the rise. The average home sold for $22,000.00. Guess where Mortgage rates were at that time?
You guessed right…. About where they are today! Mortgage interest rates were in the mid 4 % range.
A Perspective
Let's put this into a perspective for you. The last time mortgage interest rates were this low a first class postage stamp was 3 cents, the average income in the U.S. was $3,960.00 per year, a Ford automobile cost $1,548-$2,415, bread was .17 cents a loaf, a T-bone steak was .95 cents per pound, etc. Also they had Nickel & Dime stores not Dollar stores.
Today's home buyers are enjoying rolled back prices; sellers who are willing to pay some buyers closing costs, and interest rates at historic lows- BUT many of them are still not buying….WHY?
Four years after the housing bubble popped, the American real estate market has yet to launch a sustainable recovery. Although U.S. home prices have improved modestly since the spring of 2009—and certain regional markets have performed even better—sales and values will face renewed downward pressure later this year in the wake of the expiration of the federal home buyer tax credits. Indeed, some analysts expect the bloated inventory and sputtering demand to trigger a "double dip" housing recession, with prices possibly even slipping back below their April 2009 lows.
This disconcerting outlook has materialized despite some optimistic developments within the market. The 30-percent drop in real estate prices has helped restore affordability to a once wildly-overvalued market, putting additional consumers in position to become homeowners. Meanwhile, mortgage financing as pointed out above has grown downright cheap—with rates falling to 50-year lows.
So what's the problem then?
What's causing this stagnation in the housing recovery?
Attend this months meeting to find out why the housing market hasn't recovered, and how you as a savy investor can take advantage of the opportunities which will continue to present themselves.
July 15th,2010 Meeting
Building Wealth One
House at a Time
Speaker: Author,
Investor, Educator Extraordinaire;
John Schaub
This is one meeting you simply MUST attend! - bring your spouse, family member,
business associate, or a loved one - they will be glad you did.
Why Should you Listen & Learn From John Schaub?
"The best investment you can make: knowledge you can use today"Today
you have a unique opportunity to buy investment houses that will produce large
profits for years to come. The changing market produces a short-term
opportunity to buy good properties at deeply discounted prices. Low interest
rates make it possible to buy these properties on terms that will produce
immediate profits. Lenders, both institutional and private, are awash in loans
in default and with properties they now own. They are renegotiating loans and
wholesaling properties. It is your opportunity to buy several prime properties
at bargain prices or on great terms. Be a picky buyer!The future for real
estate is bright. Inflation will dramatically drive up prices and rents. Take
advantage of this opportunity - learn to buy and finance property today that
will pay you profits for a lifetime.
ABOUT JOHN SCHAUB:
Nationally known real estate expert John Schaub learned his craft in the
best way possible: 35 years on the job, investing in every kind of real estate,
dealing with every twist of the economy and managing hundreds of tenants.
John's unique focus on investing in single-family homes in quality
neighborhoods enables his readers and students to accumulate wealth while
providing affordable housing for families.
John has survived eight Presidents and prospered for 30 years as a landlord. He
authored the original single family house seminar in 1976 which launched
thousands on their way to successful investing. He is still an active buyer and
engaged in managing his business and investments, when not traveling with his
family, or building homes for Habitat for Humanity.John is a reformed "Big
Deal" guy, who discovered that most of the big talkers had small bank balances.
John stresses keeping it simple. He talks only about what he has done and what
has worked and sometimes not worked for him. John spends nearly all of his
working time making deals and managing his properties. He teaches only three
seminars a year.
Join John Schaub & Management Expert David Tilney
for this fantastic 2 Day Workshop - Sat. & Sun. July 17th & 18th at the
South San Francisco Conference Center
CREATING CASH DURING UNCERTAIN TIMES
How to survive and thrive in Real Estate
today
For more information on this workshop click here
Take Advantage of the Limited Time to Pre-Register for the Discounted Workshop Tuition & FREE Bonuses - Do it Today!
BAWB Meeting June 17 th 2010
Topic:
Specialists (hired
guns)
Wikipedia states: A Specialist frequently refers to an expert in a profession.
There are certain incidents or problems which often seem to crop up when trying to buy or sell Real Property where an escrow is involved.
These might involve title flaws, occupancy, ingress and egress issues, boundary lines, and Permit, Pest, Roof, & Home inspections, dealing with the new lead paint rules and so on….
Knowing who you can contact as a so called "Specialist" can often keep the escrow Alive and an actual closing together versus your deal falling apart.
This
months meeting will introduce you several local specialists (or Hired Guns as
we like to refer to them as) who can assist you when that moment arrives and
you need to seek out their help!
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from our panel of "Specialists"
Workshops in 2002: | August | October |
BAWB May 20th 2010 Meeting
HOW TO KEEP WHAT YOU'VE GOT IN SPITE OF HYPERINFLATION OR DEPRESSION
Always willing to
share his thoughts and often Controversial...
John T. Reed, Author, Investor, Publisher
From his New Book:
"How To Protect Your Life Savings from Hyperinflation and Deflation"
John will discuss and cover:
• Why Federal spending is a Runaway train
• Why the government only has five choices when investors stop buying U.S. Bonds to Finance our deficits: the most probable is Hyperinflation
• Hyperinflation and Depression will wipe out certain persons and groups financially and leaves others unscathed and sometimes better off- Which Group are you in?
• There is still time to get out of the way of this runaway train but you must consider certain steps...find out which steps to take NOW!
•
Why the following do NOT protect you from hyperinflation:
TIPs, Savings Bonds, Gold, and Cost-of-Living clauses
• Why even Real Estate & Common Stocks are unreliable when it comes to protecting you from hyperinflation and depression
• Learn why Foreign Currencies, Bonds, & Stocks offer little protection
• Why Liquidity is Crucial and often Overlooked: You gotta be both Wealthy and Liquid to STAY Wealthy
•
What it comes down to Is having the RIGHT mindset and types of Assets
& Debts—if you got ‘em, you're a spectator to
hyperinflation/depression; if not, you become a
victim
About John T. Reed: John T. Reed is a self-publisher of books and a national newsletter on real-estate investment, and books on football coaching and baseball coaching and self-publishing. He has been a columnist on football coaching for American Football Quarterly magazine. He has sold over 160,000 books and 3 million newsletters. He has been quoted regularly in the national news media since the 1970's and has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows including Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and 60 Minutes. He was a real-estate investor for 23 years. He also worked as a bartender, property manager, real-estate salesman, banker, football coach, and volleyball coach. He has been married since 1975 and has three sons.
He was an Army officer in the U.S. and Vietnam and graduated from Army Airborne (paratrooper) and Ranger schools. Mr. Reed holds a Bachelor of Science degree from West Point and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.
BAWB April 15th, 2010 Meeting
What is Working Now?
Join us for a Panel discussion with several local investors who will share their insights about what is currently working for them in this protracted downtrodden Real Estate market.
- REO's - is all the "low hanging fruit" gone?
- Are Foreclosures for the bottom feeders...
- Credit & Investor Capital and where to obtain it
- Should you be a BUY & HOLD investor
or BUY & SELL dealmaker...?
- How to negotiate, structure, and put together the deal
- What are their projections for the foreseeable future?
- Lots of Q & A and your chance to get your questions
answered
Join Us and Find out!
Invite a business associate, friend, family member or loved one to attend as this promises to be a very informative meeting you don't want to miss!
BAWB March 18th, 2010 Meeting
After the Fall: Saving capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington
SPEAKER: Author, Nicole Gelinas
But it doesn't have
to be this way.
You see the government gradually adopted a "too big to fail" policy for the largest or most complex financial companies, saving lenders to failing firms from losses. As a result, these companies became impervious to the vital market discipline that the threat of loss provides.
Adding to the problem, Wall Street created financial instruments that escaped other reasonable limits, including gentle constraints on speculative borrowing and requirements for the disclosure of important facts.
The financial industry eventually posed an untenable risk to the economy—a risk that culminated in the trillions of dollars' worth of government bailouts and guarantees that Washington scrambled starting in late 2008.
Even as banks and markets seem to heal, lenders to financial companies continue to understand that the government would protect them in the future if necessary. This implicit guarantee harms economic growth, because it forces good companies to compete against bad.
History and recent events make clear what Washington must do.
First, policymakers must reintroduce market discipline to the financial world. They can do so by re-creating a credible, consistent way in which big financial companies can fail, with lenders taking their warranted losses. Second, policymakers can reapply prudent financial regulations so that markets, and the economy, can better withstand inevitable excesses of optimism and pessimism. Sensible regulations have worked well in the past and can work well again.
Don't miss this incredibly informative meeting!
About Nicole Gelinas:
Nicole Gelinas is the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Gelinas writes on urban economics and finance, municipal and corporate finance, business issues, and crime. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts.
Copies of her book will be available for purchase and autograph at the meeting.
In After the Fall, Nicole Gelinas shows how the financial crisis that began in 2008 was not a failure of markets, but a failure of government to understand its proper role in markets.She explains how Washington helped bring on the economic crisis in two ways: through its "too big to fail" policy, and by its failure to apply proven, prudent regulatory principles to modern financial markets and firms. In the absence of market discipline and prudent regulation, the government is now deciding which companies and people should receive investment capital, and on what terms—harming our economic competitiveness.
BAWB February 18th, 2010 Meeting
A TWO (2) PART MEETING YOU MUST NOT
MISS! 
PART # 1 -
Author & CalWatchdog's Editor in Chief; Steven
GreenhutAuthor
of the Book:"Plunder! How Public Employee Unions are Raiding
Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation."His Op-Ed
article for the Wall Street Journal; "Plundering California" is a must
read. Here is the link:http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/press/plundering-california
- The 2010 California Budget shortfall is projected to be $20B or more!
- This Shortfall is larger than the entire state budgets of all but a handful of other States
- The California Legislature continues to use budget gimmicks, including unrealistic assumptions of new revenue and accounting tricks employed to effectively borrow from future year.
- California as a state enacted the largest tax increase ever imposed by any statehouse in the history of America. The results were predictable: Like the tax increase of 1991, California plunged deeper into recession and produced less revenue.
- The inability of politicians to restrain their spending of taxpayer dollars is the direct result of the forceful application of political power. And, in California, there are no greater political influences than thepublic employee unions.
To make a difference, lovers of liberty ought not only to buy Steven
Greenhut's book, but buy several copies to distribute to friends and
family.
To win the battle, we have to educate voters and Plunder! will
not only educate, it will enrage. And in this case, a little rage is a
good thing.Don't miss this opportunity to listen to Steven Greenhut
LIVE! - books will be available for purchase and
autograph.
About Steven Greenhut:
Steven Greenhut is director of PRI's Journalism Center, which will be
launched in January 2010 to provide in-depth news coverage of
California government, with a focus on uncovering waste, fraud and
misuse of taxpayer dollars.
Previously, Greenhut was deputy editor and columnist for The Orange
County Register in Santa Ana, Calif. He joined the
Register's editorial page staff in 1998, after serving as
editorial page editor of The Lima News, a daily newspaper in
northwest Ohio. Both newspapers are owned by Irvine-based Freedom
Communications. He is author of the 2004 book, "Abuse of Power: How the
Government Misuses Eminent Domain." His columns have been published in
newspapers across the country including the Wall Street
Journal.
In 2005, Greenhut won the Institute for Justice's Thomas Paine Award
for his writing promoting freedom. He is a senior fellow at the
Goldwater Institute in Phoenix. His new book on public employee unions
will be out in November. It is titled, "Plunder: How Public Employee
Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling our Lives and Bankrupting
the Nation." He graduated from George Washington University, is married
and has three daughters.
PART # 2 - Author, Investor, Exchangor, Educator; Jack Shea
Co-Authored the Book;
Land Trust's For Privacy & Profit
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About Jack Shea:
Jack Shea was raised in Chicago and attended the University of Illinois where he received a BS degree in Engineering with a minor in business. He spent seven years as an Air Force pilot flying four-engine transports. He was an aircraft commander and flight examiner, and lived in France and Japan. He spent over ten years in the aviation and technology industry serving as head of marketing, and as an officer for several New York Stock Exchange corporations.
Jack moved to Florida in 1978, and began investing in real estate. He is a licensed Realtor and Mortgage Broker. He has done syndications and mobile home development. He also has bought and sold mortgages and notes on personal property. He has concentrated on buying and selling options on real estate, and has been and continues to be an active investor in single-family houses and mobile homes. Jack operates a 1031 exchange facilitator business with his wife, Merle, and his son Daniel as well as conducts classes and briefings on the details of tax-free sales and purchases. He has taught in the MBA program for FIT and to numerous investors around the country on the benefits of using lease-purchase contracts, discounted note investments, and using Land Trusts.
A few of the uses and
benefits of land trusts:
Upcoming
Workshop
Saturday Feb. 20th 2010:
LAND
TRUST's FOR PRIVACY & PROFIT
A Practical understanding and myriad number of ways you can use the Land Trust including the specific nuts & bolts of how to safely acquire properties "subject to" existing financing using the Land Trust.
Jack Shea & Michael Morrongiello will be conducting a FULL DAY Workshop on Sat. 2-20-2010 at the South San Francisco Airport Conference Center you don't want to miss.
BAWB Thursday January 21st 2010 Meeting
Is this the Right Time to Buy? Have we reached the bottom of the Market as other so called experts are saying? Is stabilization of the Marketplace near?
IMPORTANT MEETING LOCATION CHANGE- The January Meeting will be held in San Francisco at:
Holiday Inn Golden Gateway
1500 Van Ness Ave
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 441-4000- Hotel Direct #
Start off the New Year Informed –listen and learn from our own industry expert…
Speaker: Author of Timing the Real Estate Market,
Statistician, & Investor; Robert Campbell
Topic: 2010 Housing Forecast -What Will Happen & Why
Program Director Note: "Robert has spoken at our meetings in the past and has been incredibly prescient in accurately predicting California Real Estate Market trends. Don't miss his insight at this months meeting…"
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The Campbell Method:
A Proven Timing
System that Tells You EXACTLY When to Buy
and Sell Real Estate to Make Maximum Profits!
Dear Real Estate
Investor:
Imagine for a moment how you would feel if you could predict major
turning points in the real estate market.
Suppose somebody handed you a 21-year time-tested system that would tell you ahead of time when property values were going to hit a peak … and then when prices were going to hit bottom years later.
If you could anticipate
these kinds of critical real estate events in advance … then not only
could you make spectacular profits, but you could protect your money as
well.
Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it?
Actually, it's not. The real
estate market does signal its future intentions if you know where to
look.
Hello. My name is Robert Campbell and I wrote Timing the Real
Estate Market to help both professionals and ordinary people
make the most money in real estate with the least amount of risk. I
also have my web site; www.realestatetiming.com Based on a major breakthrough in
tracking and predicting real estate trends, my book reveals the real
estate timing technique that I call The Campbell
Method .
As far as I know, The Campbell Method is the only proven method in the world that shows how to accurately anticipate upcoming changes in your local real estate market.
What this means is that when you read Timing the Real Estate Market , you are going to learn how to make – and protect – your fortune in real estate in the same way that J. Paul Getty, the Rockefellers, Warren Buffett, and other super-rich investors made their fortunes: by focusing on WHEN to buy and sell.
It's true. When it comes to making money in real estate, nothing beats good timing.
The reason that The Campbell Method is going to change the way you think about how to buy and sell real estate is that I share my truly remarkable discovery of five key real estate indicators. I call them "Vital Signs," and they're able to predict the peaks and valleys of real estate cycles with an almost uncanny accuracy. As "leading indicators" to what's looming on the horizon for real estate prices, these Vital Sign indicators act like windows into the future, giving you advance notice of approaching trend changes from three to six months before they become obvious to the general public.
Author's Note: Timing the Real Estate Market is used at the University of San Diego by Professor Elaine Worzala. The class: Real Estate Investment. "The logic behind these Vital Sign indicators is air-tight," says Professor Worzala. "I'm very impressed, and my students love your book."
Copies of Timing the
Real Estate Market will be available for purchase and autograph by
Robert Campbell at the meeting.
BAWB Thursday November 19th 2009 Meeting
SPEAKER: Jason
Clemens, Director of Research, Pacific Research
Institute
- The "Golden State" is experiencing a world of hurt right now...
- Some Politicians feel that we must raise taxes in order to continue to operate
- Businesses are leaving, People are leaving, and the economy is stagnant
- What makes for "good policy" that will once again create a postive
business
climate in California?
- Is there really true Taxation with Representation for Californians?
Don't miss this months insightful meeting about our State and Where we may be heading...
About Jason Clemens:
Jason Clemens is the Director of Research at the Pacific Research Institute. He also directs strategic planning and budgeting for the Institute. Prior to joining PRI he held a number of positions at the Canadian-based Fraser Institute over a ten-plus year period, including the director of research quality, resident scholar in fiscal studies, and the director of strategic planning and budgeting. He has an Honors Bachelors Degree of Commerce and a Masters' Degree in Business Administration from the University of Windsor as well as a Post Baccalaureate Degree in Economics from Simon Fraser University.
He has published over 50 major studies on a wide range of topics, including taxation, government spending, labor market regulation, banking, welfare reform, productivity, entrepreneurship, public choice economics, and economic prosperity. He has published over 200 shorter articles, which have appeared in such newspapers as The Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, The National Post, The Globe & Mail, and all major daily papers in Canada as well as in major U.S. papers and websites such as the Washington Post, L.A. Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune, Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Sacramento Bee, Human Events, Townhall.com, and the Flash Report. Mr. Clemens has been a guest on numerous radio and television programs across Canada and the United States, including ABC News. He has appeared before committees of both the House of Commons and the Senate in Canada as an expert witness and briefed state legislatures in California. In 2006, he received the prestigious Canada's Top 40 Under 40 award presented by Caldwell Partners as well as an Odyssey Award from the University of Windsor.
DON'T WAIT - REGISTER TODAY FOR UPCOMING WORKSHOP!
Tell The Recession to Take a Hike!
Attend the UPCOMING Taxes & Tidings Workshop
Creative Deal Structuring & Keeping the Tax Man from Coming...
Saturday November 14th, 2009 - South San Francisco Conference Center
Making Real Estate Deals Work in Today's Market
Featuring John Groom & Michael Morrongiello
A CPA who is in the Real Estate "game" and a True Real Estate & "paper" guru teaching together for the first time.
BAWB Thursday October 15th 2009 Meeting
WHAT's WORKING IN TODAY's MARKET
Join us for a discussion about what other investors are doing in
today's topsey turvey marketplace.
Is the Recession Over?
Have we reach a strategic Bottom...?
What are Investors doing today?
Are they sitting on the sidelines with a Deer in the headlights look?
stuck in Neutral...Or are some working Pre-Foreclosures? Foreclosures?
REO's?, Short Sales, Divorce or Probate leads? Private Party
Sellers?, Repairing Credit,
Fixing & Flipping, etc.
WHO are they renting to? WHO are they Selling to?
How Hard is it for buyers and sellers and investors to obtain
financing?
This promises to be a very informative meeting and your chance to ask
questions
of our panel and the audience.
Don't Miss it!
Tell The Recession to Take a
Hike!
Attend the UPCOMING Taxes & Tidings
Workshop
Creative Deal
Structuring & Keeping the Tax Man from
Coming...
Saturday November 14th, 2009 - South San
Francisco Conference Center
Making Real Estate Deals Work in Today's Market
Featuring John Groom & Michael Morrongiello
A CPA who is
in the Real Estate
"game" and a True Real Estate & "paper" guru teaching together for
the first time.
BAWB Thursday September 17th 2009 Meeting
Show Me the Money! -
2009
Its a new day and age in the world of Real Estate Finance.
Proper and timely funding is the grease the "squeaky wheel" continues to need in order for properties to continue to be bought and sold and for any chance of a housing recovery to take hold.
With mortgage lending activities severely restricted and the availabiltiy of funds for both buyers and sellers limited- this months meeting involves a panel of several different lenders who offer different niche lending programs that cater to activities such as:
* Fixer Upper Loans - both from an institiuional lender standpoint and from a private money lending vantage point.
* First Time and current Home buyers FHA, VA, and Conventional financing programs.
Does Title seasoning of ownership matter?
What about the new HVCC- Home Valuation Code of Condut appraisal rules?
What are the various down payment and qualifying criteria?
* Investor loan programs for the investor looking both Purchase and also Refinance Non Owner Occupied Investor properties
*
Short &
Long Term Private Money lending
* Hard Money- Asset based Lending
Its important to be aware of what is out there in the marketplace as it may affect you - regardless of whether you are an investor looking to acquire properties or to pull cash out through refinancings, or a seller seeking to get cashed out upon the resale of one of your properties.
Join us for what promises to be a very informative meeting.
Steve Dexter
Investor, Mortgage & Foreclosure Expert, Educator, Author of; "Real Estate Debt Can Make You Rich" & "Prospering in the Rising Wave of Bank Foreclosures"
Beat the Banks- Prospering during the Tsunami wave of Bank Foreclosures
Who is Steve Dexter?
Steve is an invited expert
commentator for CNN/Money, CBS Radio, Fox TV and numerous other
newspapers and media outlets.
Here's what others
are saying:
Great advice about foreclosures…Steve Dexter is the expert on
everything foreclosure, and reveals how to profit in today's volatile
market."-Jaclyn Kessler, publisher, Creative Real Estate Magazine
"If you ever wanted in on the real estate market, buy this book and
start using Steve Dexter as your guide"- Kenn Ricci, author of
"Management by Trust"
"This book is gold-a how to that can help you start making money as
fast as you can open it up and start turning the pages."- Christopher
Cerda, author of Serious Money Investing
"If you want a solid, professional system from somebody who has
actually done what he's talking about, then Beat the Banks is for you-
Said Darwazah, author of Building a Global Success
He is an active real estate investor and owns 27 investment houses in
Southern California and around the country. Steve Dexter continues to
offer mentoring to hundreds of investors across the nation. He
teaches courses in investing and real estate finance at colleges across
Southern California. He writes a free bi-monthly E-Newsletter,
"Economic News You Can Use". He has been a distinguished speaker at the
Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and their Graduate School
of Design and has mentored many of their students about
entrepreneurship and real estate investing. He also has spoken at
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business Management located
in Chicago. Steve's has just finished his second book, "Prospering in
the Rising Wave of Bank Foreclosures" which can be purchased on Amazon
or his website, www.moneyforeclosures.com
He is author of the book "Real Estate Debt Can Make You Rich" published by McGraw-Hill. The book was rated one of the top 5 real estate books of the year by Bob Bruss, a nationally syndicated columnist of the Washington Post Media Group.
BAWB Thursday July 16th 2009 Meeting
A Two Part Program;
Part
1-
Wholesaling Properties for
Profit
A Panel Discussion about how to effectively find, negotiate, tie up, finance, and then WHOLESALE properties for Quick Cash Profits
Part 2 -
"Getting Rich in today's market with bank-owned Foreclosures and ‘Rent-Smart' Lease Options"
Presented by Andy Heller of Regular Riches: Real
Estate Riches for Regular People
Don't Miss the Follow up FULL DAY
WORKSHOP
Sat. July 25th in San Francisco
There will be a Follow up FULL DAY Workshop on Saturday July 25th, 2009 - held in San Francisco with Andy Heller - the cost to attend is as little as $49.00 - and we have (2) two valuable FREE Bonuses for you if you Pre-Register. For more details about the workshop and to register please click here.
About
Andy Heller:
Andy Heller is a nationally recognized real estate expert, and has been interviewed and prominently featured in respected publications including Kiplinger, WallStreetJournal.com, TheStreet.com, Personal Excellence, Money Magazine, and MarketWatch.com.
There are literally hundreds of wealth-building strategies available for real estate investors. Some are more lucrative than others, and many are simply way to much work for the money that an investor hopes to make. Fortune Magazine is arguably the leading magazine in North America today that teaches people how to make money. "Regular Guy" Andy Heller, will show you why of the hundreds of wealth-building formulas, Fortune Magazine recommended Andy Heller's "Buy Low, Rent Smart, Sell High" strategy among the top five recommended strategies for real estate investors.
Andy and his story will inspire and connect with you, as it is a "regular guy" get rich story. Like so many of us, Andy started investing part time, pulling aside a few hours each week for his hobby. The lack of success of Andy and his partner Scott's "buy and flip" plans led them literally by accident to a goldmine called buy low, rent smart, sell high.
When Andy and Scott found buying properties from distressed sellers to be tedious, hard work, and depressing they discovered by accident a hidden gem in the foreclosure process…BANK OWNED REAL ESTATE. With bank-owned real estate an investor is able to purchase MULTIPLE PROPERTIES from single sources, without emotions, and with clean and clear title.
Once purchased, when Andy and Scott were then unable to flip their first home after 9 months on the market, they modified the typical lease/purchase deal to come up with their unique rent smart and sell high formula. Their SHORTEST lease is 3 years, and each of their tenants (gladly) accepts responsibility for repairs and maintenance. High turnover, nightmare tenants, and lengthy vacancies are non-issues when you "rent smart"
How profitable is their formula? The last home Andy and Scott sold required about 20 hours of effort, and netted a profit of $57,400. That is $2,870/per hour. But don't leave your day job just yet. Come hear Andy speak and he will cover:
• Why today's COOLING market is a RED HOT opportunity for investors
• Buying Low: Learn about the untapped fortunes with bank-owned real estate
• Why especially today bank owned properties offer investors of all means unlimited deals
• WHY ESPECIALLY TODAY AN INVESTOR CAN MAKE ENOURMOUS PROFITS
BUYING
BANK-OWNED FORECLOSURES!!!
• Why bank-owned properties may be the best SOURCE for investors
who have limited cash
and/or credit
• How to calculate the EXACT price you need to buy properties at
in order to maximize
your profits
• What types of properties can you buy from banks
• Why a MOTIVATED tenant is the key to landlording fortunes
• How the "typical" lease options minimize, not maximize, an investor's profits
• How to make a fortune in real estate AND help your tenants at the same time
• How to sell for top dollar WITHOUT paying real estate commissions
• Achieve your REGULAR RICHES: Real estate fortunes for regular people…without the hassles
Andy will explain why the "Buy Low, Rent Smart, Sell High" strategy is specifically positioned to take advantage of two dominant characteristics of today's real estate market. First, on the buying end, we are seeing record foreclosures, and the lucrative post-foreclosure market has been their favorite hunting ground for deals for close to 20 years. Secondly, on the marketing end, their unique lease/purchase strategy positions today's investor to take advantage of a rapidly strengthening rental market.
BAWB Thursday June
18th 2009 Meeting
"Investing in Non-Performing Bank Notes – Catch a Falling Knife?"
When a lender's loan stops performing or defaults all sorts of headaches can arise. However their bad news creates tremendous opportunity for the savvy investor. Visit with us this evening to get an introduction into the world of sub-performing and non-performing "paper"
• Are you invested in non-performing notes today? (Are you sure?) • Mutual funds, Toxic Assets, and you – how you may already be invested inToxic Assets – you just don't know it • How to "unlock" these Toxic Assets and control them for profit • Case studies on investing in non-performing notes • How to get started buying non-performing notes from banks SPEAKER: Investor, Author, Dean Engle
About Dean Engle:
Mr. Engle is an investment manager focused on residential distressed debt investments. He has over 10 years experience in financial services, and has managed or brokered over $26MM in non-performing residential mortgages. Mr. Engle is CEO of Note Portfolio Advisors, LLC, where he has responsibility for acquisitions and underwriting.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Engle worked as a retail bank strategist at JPMorganChase. He began his career in finance as an associate at the Mitchell Madison Group, a New York-based management consulting firm, in 1998.
Mr. Engle received a B.A. (with Honors) in English from Dartmouth College, and an M.A. in International Economics from John Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies. He is a Fulbright Scholar.
May 2009:
THE BLOCKBUSTER WORKSHOP EVENT OF THE YEAR!
BAWB Thursday May 28th 2009 Meeting
IMPORTANT NOTE: This months meeting is not being held at the Mill Valley Community Center - Please Note the Special Event & Location This months Regular BAWB monthly meeting is being held the evening before the Blockbuster Cash Flow Workshop Event with Jack Miller, Peter Fortunato, and John Schaub in San Francisco and will be held as a kick off event to this Historic workshop at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel at 1500 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA 94109 - Hotel Direct # 415-441-4000
WHICH IS THE BETTER INVESTMENT?
Owning REAL ESTATE Vs Owning the "PAPER" secured by the Real Estate What should you choose to invest in EQUITY or invest in DEBT?
In the Stock market you have Stock or Equity Investors primarily seeking growth and some income and Bond Investors who seek a coupon clipping return on their invested capital. Well equity (owning the property) and debt (owning the Mortgage on the property) also exists in the Real Estate Investment arena. Do you like to deal with Tenants & Toilets & Management? or do you favor a more passive management free income stream?We have quite a battle planned for tonight where Jack, Pete, and John - our Master "Deal Makers" will make their case for WHY one type of investment is far better than the other. This is a MUST Attend Meeting! Listen & Learn from the Collective Wisdom of;Jack Miller, Peter Fortunato & John Schaub Each of them will share with you their thoughts on why they may favor one type of investment over the other...HINT: They don't always agree It promises to be a lively, spirited, and informative discussion you simply do not want to miss. REMINDER: Special May 28th 2009 only Meeting location:Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel1500 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94109 - Hotel Direct # 415-441-4000
BAWB Thursday April 16th 2009 Meeting
TOPIC:
HOW TO HIRE A $50,000
PER YEAR ASSISTANT
WHO PAYS FOR THEMSELF
SPEAKER:
Author, Investor, Educator, Creator of Key Elements Training;
ALAN BRYMER
A Personal Assistant – Who Pays Their Own Salary
Most entrepeneurs, business owners, and investors know how to buy and sell, but find that their business and also investing in real estate is taking over their free time and running them ragged.
Alan Brymer is the only speaker whose sole focus is to show business owners and real estate investors how to cut the number of hours they work by 50-80%, while doing more deals with less hassle. The key is having systems, and having someone in place to take care of the myriads of time-consuming phone calls and busy work for you.
Alan teaches a system of strategies designed to help any business owner or investor, whether new or experienced, to hire and train an assistant to run their errands, make their calls, run their marketing campaigns, find them deals, sell their houses, and more. The techniques Alan covers will…
• Let you work HALF as much – or get twice as much done – with less effort
• Cut your working hours down by 50-80% each week, and
• Allow you to do ONLY the work that YOU want to/can do – so you can have a life again!
Here's just a sampling of the important topics covered by Alan in his presentation:
• Sure fire, inexpensive ways to attract hundreds of the right kind applicants
• Tips that zero in on separating the diamonds from the duds, so you are left with only the most qualified
• How to get an assistant who will do personal errands for you as well as business tasks
• How much should you pay an assistant, and how? Hourly? Salary? Commission?
• What kinds of things can they do for you?
• At what point of your business do you recommend getting an assistant?
• The amazing secret of having an assistant that makes you several times more money than you are paying them.
• The pros and cons of hiring someone in your town vs. another state, or even another country
• How to professionally manage people to minimize headaches and hassles, so your business flows smoothly and efficiently.
• How to train your assistant in the least amount of time and get the very the best results.
• How can I learn to LET GO and not be a control freak?
• Independent Contractors vs employees…And MORE!
How many business owners and investors got into business or real estate so they could retire early, travel the world, or live a comfortable life? And how few are actually doing that now?
Business owners and Investors want to know how to get the things they want most out of life, and that is exactly what Alan teaches. And, that's exactly why people must learn about The Assistant Who Pays Their Own Salary.
This is a VERY valuable presentation you don't want to miss.
Who is Alan Brymer?
Alan Brymer is the creator of The Assistant Who Pays Their Own Salary and the Founder and President of the Utah Valley Real Estate Investors Association. He has been a full-time investor since his first property at the age of 22. By creating a structured, organized approach to his business, Alan has raised millions of dollars in private funding and has become an expert in creative real estate transactions.
Alan's real estate investment company was named by the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum as one of the "Top 25 Companies Under Five Years Old." Competing companies were judged based on profit, growth, funding, job creation, and job quality.
He is a frequent guest expert for the news media, having made TV appearances on KSL's Studio 5 Morning Show, iProvo, and Spotlight with Dana Robinson. He has also been published or highlighted in The Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret Morning News, The Daily Herald, Utah Business Magazine, Connect Magazine, The Provo/Orem Chamber Insider, Intermountain Investor, Mortgage Mag Weekly, The Scotsman Magazine, Utah Valley Business Quarterly, and The Salt Lake Enterprise.
In addition to his real estate experience, Alan is an expert at systemizing businesses to run without the owner. Like many, he attended seminars and bought courses but found that while the techniques of real estate are frequently taught, there were no courses that showed how to streamline and run a business in the level of detail and freedom that he was searching for.
He began to develop systems for his own real estate business, which has allowed him to do more deals in less time each month. He has incorporated these into his consulting and is now presenting them as complete systems modules. Today, serious real estate investors can, for the first time, take their investing to the next level with the world's first system designed to streamline the real estate investing business and increase profitability.
Topic:
The Age of Obama...
Whose Taxes will Dip or Rise under the new Tax Proposals...
*Tax cuts and Tax increases
*Tax rate increases to as much as 39.6%
*Expanded Tax credits for families, individuals, college expenses
*Where will capital gains Tax rates go
What you need to know about Taxes-
From Real Estate to Your Income.
Speaker:
Steve Moskowitz, Tax Attorney
Undoubtedly you've heard Steve on the Bay area radio airwaves. His law firm specializes in all types of taxation matters. Visit with us this evening to listen and learn from his years of insight and expertise about:
• Bankruptcy Options and
Strategies
• When you can't pay the
IRS or State of California - What to do?
• Real Estate Losses are
substantial
• Using the treat of
bankruptcy
• How to survive an audit
with sanity
• How to manage your Real
Estate and finances with regard to taxes
• Q & A on areas chosen
by the audience
About the Speaker:
Steve Moskowitz, is the Senior Partner of the Law Offices of Stephen Moskowitz, LLP, located in the Financial District in San Francisco, California. The law firm representing clients with individual and business tax matters at a local or national level, as well as, representing clients with International tax matters.
For over thirty years, Steve has successfully helped tens of thousands of clients with tax representation and resolving any and all types of tax situations that can arise with Federal or State taxes. His services include Audit Representation, Tax Planning, Preparation of Current and Delinquent Tax Returns, Tax Disputes, Criminal Tax Representation, Defense of Money Laundering, Tax Levy Release, Defense of Investors and Promoters of Offshore Tax Shelters, Payroll or Sales Tax Disputes and International Tax Planning and Representation.
Steve has earned
all his degrees with Honors; including a Bachelors Degree in Accounting
from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA., an M.B.A. from New York
University in New York City, a Law Degree from New York Law School and
an Advanced Law Degree specializing in Tax from Golden Gate University
Law School in San Francisco, CA.
Steve's licensing includes the State Bar of California, the State Bar
of New York (inactive), CPA (New York-inactive), United States Tax
Court, U.S. District in all Districts in California, Federal Court of
Claims, Federal Appeals Court and U.S. Supreme Court.
Some of Steve's accomplishments include articles featured in several publications on the subject of How to Reduce your Taxes, Avoiding Tax Return Preparation Penalties, Tax Aspects of Financial Planning and Hong Kong Revenue Law to mention a few. Steve has conducted countless seminars on such topics as the Tax Aspects of Financial Planning, Legal Liability of Certified Public Accounts, and Tax Planning for Small Business, Tax Saving Through Year-End tax planning and taxation of Individuals.
Steve's media accomplishments include seven years as the Fox TV-Bay Area Legal Analyst, hosting his own Talk Show on KNBR Radio-San Francisco and numerous appearances on Bay Area radio and television stations. Steve speaks on all legal and tax issues.
Steve taught for
eight years at Golden Gate University in San Francisco as well as the
University of San Francisco.
BAWB Thursday February 19th 2009 Meeting
TOPIC:
Strategies For Growing Your Home Renovating Business
Buying and Selling Houses in a Down Market
Speaker; Robyn Thompson
"The Queen of Rehab"
Robyn
became financially independent renovating houses, and you can do the
same;however, if you aren't prepared, the process can become completely
overwhelming...
Many real estate investors shy away from the "ugly" house business because they fear hiring contractors and tradesmen. However the BEST deals whether they are from REO lenders or private party sellers are typically found where a property needs lots of fix up work.
We have all heard the horror stories of rehabbers who loose their shirt because a contractor took them to the cleaners, they did not properly estimate the costs for materials and labor, or forgot about the invariable unknowns.
Learn how the
beginning novice real estate investor and even the seasoned pros
make
correct choices when tackling a renovation project.
How to engage your "Team"; contractors, and tradesmen so that they are hard working team players that get the job done on time, on budget and at a high standard of quality.
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Who Is Robyn Thompson?
Robyn Thompson is the nations leading expert on buying, renovating and selling homes for huge chunks of cash and is known throughout the United States and Canada as "The Queen of Rehab".
After spending 9 years working a dead end corporate job, Robyn realized that her hard work and dedication for IBM was not going to provided financial independence. She walked away from her secure paycheck and never looked back.
Over the past 11 years since Robyn left IBM, she has bought, fixed and sold 260 homes with price ranges as low as $8,000 to as high as $4,000,000. She has spent as much as $2,100,000 in labor and materials in one year to renovate properties with more than 22 contractors working full time to take the ugly homes she bought and turn them into little castles at lightening speed.
Robyn will be sharing her strategies on: 1) How to find the profitable homes that need to be renovated, 2) How to find and control the contractors to get the job done and 3) Selling houses quickly for huge chunks of cash.
Robyn has taught thousands of students throughout the United States how to become financially independent. She has shared the stage with Donald Trump, Dr Phil, Mark Victor Hansen, Ron LeGrand, Marshall Sylver & many more legends.
Robyn uses her success in the real estate business to help those less fortunate. The most recent construction project that Robyn completed was an orphanage in Haiti for 165 children that opened on February 21st, 2007.
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"The Queen of Rehab" FULL DAY WORKSHOP
Buying & Selling Houses in a Down Market
Learn How to put $20,000 Cash in the Bank each month,
Finding, Fixing, & Flipping the Right Properties in today's Marketplace.
Robyn will be
conducting a FULL DAY Workshop on Sat. 2-21-2009 at the
South San Francisco Airport Conference Center you don't want to
miss.
For more information about the workshop, a workshop brochure,
and registration form please click here.
FREE PRE-REGISTRATION BONUS
Pre- Register for
the Workshop by Monday February 16th, 2009 and receive as
a
FREE
pre-registration
Bonus Robyn's recent report; "Selling Houses in a Down
Market".
For a copy of Robyn's report; "Nine Strategies for Growing your Home Renovation Business" please click here
BAWB Thursday January 15th 2009 Meeting
Start off the New Year Informed –listen and learn from our own industry expert…
Speaker:
Author of Timing the Real Estate Market, Statistician, & Investor;
Robert Campbell
Topic: 2009 Housing Forecast -What Will Happen & Why
Program Director Note: "Robert has spoken at our meetings in the past and has been incredibly prescient in accurately predicting California Real Estate Market trends. Don't miss his insight at this months meeting…"
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The
Campbell Method: A Proven Timing
System that Tells You EXACTLY When to Buy
and Sell Real Estate to Make Maximum Profits!
Dear Real Estate
Investor:
Imagine for a moment how you would feel if you could predict major
turning points in the real estate market.
Suppose somebody handed you a 21-year time-tested
system that would tell you ahead of time when property values
were going to hit a peak … and then when prices were going to hit
bottom years later.
If you could anticipate these kinds of critical real estate events in
advance … then not only could you make spectacular profits, but you
could protect your money as well.
Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it?
Actually, it's not. The real estate market does signal its future
intentions if you know where to look.
Hello. My name is Robert Campbell and I wrote Timing the Real
Estate Market to help both professionals and ordinary people
make the most money in real estate with the least amount of risk. I
also have my web site; www.realestatetiming.com Based on a major breakthrough in
tracking and predicting real estate trends, my book reveals the real
estate timing technique that I call The Campbell
Method .
As far as I know, The Campbell Method is the only proven method in the world that shows how to accurately anticipate upcoming changes in your local real estate market.
What this means is that when you read Timing the Real Estate Market , you are going to learn how to make – and protect – your fortune in real estate in the same way that J. Paul Getty, the Rockefellers, Warren Buffett, and other super-rich investors made their fortunes: by focusing on WHEN to buy and sell.
It's true. When it comes to making money in real estate, nothing beats good timing.
The reason that The Campbell Method is going to change the way you think about how to buy and sell real estate is that I share my truly remarkable discovery of five key real estate indicators. I call them "Vital Signs," and they're able to predict the peaks and valleys of real estate cycles with an almost uncanny accuracy. As "leading indicators" to what's looming on the horizon for real estate prices, these Vital Sign indicators act like windows into the future, giving you advance notice of approaching trend changes from three to six months before they become obvious to the general public.
Author's Note: Timing the Real Estate Market is used at the University of San Diego by Professor Elaine Worzala. The class: Real Estate Investment. "The logic behind these Vital Sign indicators is air-tight," says Professor Worzala. "I'm very impressed, and my students love your book."
Copies of Timing the Real Estate Market will be available for purchase and autograph by Robert Campbell at the meeting.
Meetings in 2008
Thursday December 18, 2008
This is our final
meeting of the year!
DON'T MISS OUR DEAL OF THE YEAR
HOLIDAY GATHERING
This is always
judged by our attendees to be one of the BEST meetings we have all
year. It's a great way to learn what others are doing, the genesis of
their individual transactions, and more importantly where the profit
centers are...you'll be amazed at how many different perspectives to
doing a deal there are.
This also will be
a great meeting to get to better know your fellow attendees. Come join
us for a festive time of the year meeting that will feature some
refreshments, wine, finger foods, and Holiday cheer in an open forum
setting. You are invited to bring your spouse or a loved one for a
night out and to better see what our meetings are all
about.
Do you
know of a BAWB member who did a Killer deal this past
year?
Nominations are
encouraged for our annual "BAWB 2008 Deal of the Year"
awards.
Click here to
obtain one of the nomination forms which can be sent
in.
Each of the selected nominees will tell us their "deal story" which promises to be informative and fun. It's been an incredible year filled with change, tough lessons, and successes. We hope some of you will share a hard lesson or success from the past year.
Thursday November 20, 2008
A TWO PART PROGRAM
PART ONE
Don't miss this revealing meeting!
CHAIN OF
BLAME
How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis
by Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla
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The true extent of Wall Street's role in the current mortgage and credit crisis is revealed for the first time by authors Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla, two acclaimed journalists who have long tracked the financial industry. In CHAIN OF BLAME: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis (Wiley; $27.95; July 2008, Hardcover), the authors spin a tale of greed and recklessness all around Countrywide Chief Angelo Mozilo, whom Muolo has known for 20 years. Going behind the scenes of Mozilo's dramatic rise and fall, the book outlines his love-hate relationship with The Street, and how he paved the way for mortgage banking firms to use loan brokers who had "no skin" in the lending game. The idea was to fund loans as quickly as possible and securitize them through Wall Street. It was then Wall Street's job to transform the mortgages into "investments" and find people (sometimes suckers) to buy them. The whole system became concerned with one thing: earning a commission.
Muolo and Padilla chronicle this disaster, and explain in detail what went wrong at the nation's top subprime lending institutions including Countrywide, and non-banks such as New Century Financial, Ameriquest Mortgage and its sister firm, Argent Mortgage, the latter two of which were owned by the late Roland Arnall, former ambassador to the Netherlands, and a large political donor to the George W. Bush. (Many of the nation's largest non-bank subprime firms were backed by such Wall Street giants as Bear, Stearns, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Greenwich Capital, among others.
Revelations from CHAIN OF BLAME include the following
(and more):
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Wall Street firms like Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns were using sweat shop contract underwriting firms to review billions of dollars worth of mortgages from 2004 to early 2007. Some workers interviewed by Muolo and Padilla believed the edict was to review one loan an hour or never get called again for a job.
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Some workers told the authors that certain supervisors working for the contract underwriting firms of Clayton Holdings and the Bohan Group changed the ratings on loans to please their Wall Street clients. At the same time Wall Street supervisors didn't seem to care too much about quality because they were more interested in quantity: they had loans to securitize and bond investors to sell those securities too-especially overseas.
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The inside story of went wrong at Angelo Mozilo's Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest home lender.
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How various lenders kept lists (such as Countrywide's "Friends of Angelo's") in order to give special concessions and deals to influential people
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An inside look at the rise and fall of the Bear Stearn hedge funds, based on subprime assets, created by Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin who currently face federal prosecution.
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How America's subprime debacle sparked a worldwide credit crisis.
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Which reputable Wall Street firms couldn't resist the gold rush despite growing evidence that subprime delinquencies were growing.
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What led to the rise and fall of Ameriquest Mortgage, the nation's largest subprime lender.
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The first definitive history of subprime lending in America with juicy details about how this business started out with 'Repo Men' throwing bald grannies out of their homes.
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The reasons why it could be a full decade before the U.S housing market recovers from the losses and price declines of the past 18 months.
CHAIN OF BLAME is a sweeping, narrative of greed run amok, one that has not come down the pike since James B. Stewart's Den of Thieves and Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker.
About the authors:
Paul Muolo is the co-author of the bestselling "Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans." He is the executive editor of National Mortgage News, which won a Polk Award in 1990 for its reporting on the S&L Crisis. His freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Barron's, Playboy, and various other publications.
Mathew Padilla (Santa Ana, CA) is a business reporter for The Orange County Register and a regular business news commentator on KOCE and KDOC television. His work on the subprime crisis was recognized by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He also hosts the popular Mortgage Insider blog website, which has been featured on CNBC, MarketWatch, and Editor & Publisher.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase and autograph
at the meeting.
Topic:
CONFESSIONS OF A REAL ESTATE
ENTREPRENEUR
WHAT IT TAKES TO
WIN IN HIGH-STAKES
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
SPEAKER: Author, commercial Real Estate Attorney, Real Estate Broker and investor;
James A. Randel
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Everything You Need to Know To Make It Big In Real Estate
Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur: What It Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate will be of great interest to anyone interested in real estate or entrepreneuring. Full of real-world wisdom from successful investor James Randel, this discussion will be packed with detailed examples of real-life deals, demonstrating strategies to help you avoid the mistakes that Randel and other investors learned the hard way.
Randel is NOT a get-rich-quick, no money down proponent. His approach to the accumulation of wealth, using real estate, is aggressive and creative but by no means, risk-free. Inside you'll learn first hand lessons and secrets about:
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Researching properties
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Financing strategies that maximize your buying power
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Legal terms, issues, and conditions you should understand
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Profiting through option agreements
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The most vital skills for real estate success
Below are two endorsements written by leaders of two of the largest commercial real estate companies in the United States:
"I've tracked
Jimmy's incredible run of successful real estate investments for 20
years and more recently invested very profitable with him. His latest
book, Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur,
provides all the tools for analyzing, buying, improving and profiting
from the investment in income producing properties. It is a must read
for anyone interested in real estate investing."
Jeff Dunne, Vice Chairman, CB Richard Ellis.
"Jim Randel's
book, Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur,
expounds on all of the exciting elements of commercial real estate.
Jim's focus on the building blocks, the creativity and the strategy of
deal making gives its readers a front row seat into this high stakes,
and richly rewarding game. I have completed many transactions with Jim
and have found his excerpts to be a true and readable accounting of
just some of his dealings. For all the real estate professionals who
work for me, this is a must read."
Jim Fagan, Managing Director, Cushman &
Wakefield.
Don't Miss this outstanding evening and a chance to listen and learn from the author of the book; Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur - the book that the late Bob Bruss reviewed and stated;
"Hidden under that shell is one of the best real estate investment books I've ever read. On my scale of one to 10, this unique book rates an off-the-chart 12…."
To Read the entire Bob Bruss book review click here
Who is James A. Randel?
JAMES A.
RANDEL
Commercial Real Estate Attorney, Real Estate Broker,
Investor
Jim Randel is a
graduate of the Columbia University College and Law School. Since
graduating law school, he has been buying/selling, brokering and
lawyering real estate deals. His earliest ventures relied on creative
financing partnerships. With time, he moved into more aggressive real
estate strategies. Today Randel is a leader in "added value"
investing,
an approach to real estate that attempts to boost the value of a
property well beyond normal appreciation or inflation. His strategies
have been followed by many investors around the country.
Randel is also the author of two books. His first book, THE REAL ESTATE GAME AND HOW TO WIN IT, was published in March of 1985. His second book, CONFESSIONS OF A REAL ESTATE ENTREPRENEUR, came out in January, 2006 and demonstrates commercial real estate investment strategies through examples of detailed real-life deals.
Randel has also been a daily commentator on real estate issues on television and has spoken at national real estate conferences around the United States, including Harvard Business School.
And don't miss the exciting Peter Fortunato's exciting October Workshop:
Taught for First Time in over a Decade on the West Coast! - Don't Miss
this Opportunity to learn from the Master
Dealmaker
Peter Fortunato's
Real Estate Acquisition Techniques Class
Peter will
present (2) two days of lecture and discussion, with case studies,
regarding the acquisition and control of Real Property. Questions &
Discussion are encouraged!
PRE - REGISTER
TODAY for the Upcoming BAWB sponsored
FULL DAY WORKSHOP - Saturday & Sunday October
11-12
For more
information on this fabulous workshop event please CLICK HERE!
Thursday
September 18, 2008
Speaker: Master Dealmaker; Peter Fortunato
TOPIC:
Real Estate Acquisition
Techniques
In what may
represent one of the greatest buying opportunities in ones lifetime to
creatively acquire or control Real property which will produce income,
growth, and lifestyle for you and your family for years to come - don't
miss this opportunity to listen and learn from the Master Dealmaker
himself;
Peter Fortunato
Whether you're just starting out or consider yourself a seasoned pro you don't want to miss month's meeting and the follow up Saturday and Sunday workshop.
Invite a friend, associate, family member or loved one for a wonderful evening out of education, discussion, and networking.
Pete will outline his views about:
* Capitalism and Freedom
* The subjectivity about Value for property
* What do you
want?
Income, Growth, Tax Benefits, Amortization, Management, or
Use?
* Why the statement; "I need Cash…" is often a BIG lie
* How to get started
* Equity Financing and Equity Participation agreements
* How to involve other investors, family and friends in your investments
* Why non institutional financing is far better than "off the rack" financing
* Dealing with Promises to Property
Thursday August 14, 2008
Speaker: Steve Moskowitz, Attorney, CPA
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TOPIC:
Winning on your
Taxes
Undoubtedly
you've heard Steve on the Bay area radio airwaves and seen him on TV.
His law firm specializes in taxation matters and negotiation with the
IRS. Visit with us this evening and learn from his expertise
about;
* What
Real Estate investors need to know about their investments and
taxes?
* What happens if you don't file or file truthfully
* Audit trigger issues and preparedness
* IRS penalties and defenses
* And so much more…
About the Speaker:
Steve Moskowitz, is the Senior Partner in the Law Office of Steven
Moskowitz, LLP, located in San Francisco, California. Steve Moskowitz,
LLP, also represents clients with local, national and International
needs.
The Steve Moskowitz tax law firm specializes in civil and criminal business and individual tax law. For over thirty-five years, Steve Moskowitz has successfully helped thousands of clients with tax representation and resolving different types of tax situations that can arise with the IRS or State. His services include Criminal Tax Representation, Audit Representation, Civil and Criminal Representation, Tax Planning, Current and Delinquent Tax Returns, Tax Disputes, Money Laundering, Tax Levy Release, Offshore Tax Shelter, Employment or Payroll Taxes and International Tax Representation.
The Steve
Moskowitz tax law firm includes a professional staff of attorneys,
certified public accountants, paralegals and administrative
assistants.
Steve Moskowitz
has earned an advanced law degree specializing in tax, in addition to
the regular law degree. His degrees all with Honors include an M.B.A.
Specializing in Accounting from New York University and a Bachelor
Degree, Specialization in Accounting from Drexel University. His
licensing include, State Bar of California and the State Bar of New
York, Certified Public Account-New York, United States Tax Court,
Federal Appeals Court, United States Supreme Court, Northern District
of California, Eastern District of California, Southern District of
California and Central District of California.
Steve has
published articles featured in a variety of publications on the subject
of Tax Law, How to Reduce your Taxes, Avoiding Tax Return Preparation
Penalties, Tax Aspects of Financial Planning and Hong Kong Revenue Law
to mention a few. He has conducted seminars on such topics as Tax
Aspects of Financial Planning, Legal Liability of Certified Public
Accounts, and Tax Planning for Small Business, Tax Saving Through
Year-End tax planning and taxation of Individuals and
business.
Steve Moskowitz
media accomplishments include being the Fox TV Legal Analyst for seven
years, Talk Show Host for KNBR-San Francisco and KGO and KSFO Talk
Radio-San Francisco speaking about legal and tax
issues.
As a tax attorney, Steve taught for ten years in Law School, Graduate Tax School and University.
Thursday
July 17, 2008
Speaker: Master Dealmaker; Peter Fortunato
TOPIC:
The ART of the
Deal
Good Deals are not found…Opportunities are located or locate you….Then good deals (Transactions) are constructed…
There are
certain fundamental negotiating and investment techniques that are
universal regardless of your location.
This month's
featured speaker is Peter Fortunato. Nationally known as an expert
in using Real Estate creatively coupled with "paper" to formulate
profitable Real Estate Transactions for the buyer, seller, and
investor.
Learn how to
create profitable Transactions, Income and Wealth- often without
cash, credit, or extensive connections.
Discover
negotiating techniques and paperwork which make the numbers work
and allow for deals to happen.
Visit with us
and learn from one of the Masters on how to "Construct" Deals. Hear
Pete's clear, patient explanations, and practical insights. You Do
NOT want to miss this month's meeting, plan on being with
us!
Taught for First Time in over a Decade on the West Coast! - Don't
Miss this Opportunity to learn from the Master
Dealmaker
Peter
Fortunato's Real Estate Acquisition Techniques
Class
Peter will
present (2) two days of lecture and discussion, with case studies,
regarding the acquisition and control of Real Property. Questions
& Discussion are encouraged!
PRE -
REGISTER TODAY for the Upcoming BAWB sponsored
FULL DAY WORKSHOP - Saturday & Sunday October
11-12
For more
information on this fabulous workshop event please CLICK HERE!
Thursday
June 19, 2008
Speaker:
Author,
investor, educator,
Michael Morrongiello
TOPIC:
"Paper" into Cash - The Convertible Currency
How to Manufacture Your Own Financing
Don't
just survive the credit crunch - THRIVE during changing market
cycles!
Discover how
to effectively create marketable real estate-secured Notes that can
be easily and readily converted into a cash lump sum. With the real
estate markets softening, Wall Street no longer buying certain
loans, and qualifying criteria becoming more stringent - with the
right knowledge, you can fill the void in the marketplace by
offering seller financing for both the acquisition and disposition
of properties.
What
is Seller Carryback financing?
When a
property seller assists the buyer by acting as the lender, the
property seller may finance part or all of the sale. The term given
to such seller financing is "carryback financing." A seller is
literally carrying back part or all of the financing on the
property instead of a financial institution.
In today's tight credit Market; Seller carryback financing is vital
to a successful sales program. It is so important that if more
property sellers, their agents, buyers, and Real Estate Investors
understood the principles of seller carryback financing, more real
estate activity would be generated across the country than with any
other marketing tool!
A Few
Advantages of Seller Carryback Financing:
It makes a
listing more salable.
It provides
the seller with an interest return (yield) on their note that
exceeds savings accounts, CD's and money market
accounts.
The seller
carryback note(s) can be an extremely safe
investment.
The seller carryback note(s) can be made salable, should the holder need cash in the future.
At
this Meeting you will learn About;
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Understanding "Paper" - WHY use seller financing to buy or sell
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Different types of security instruments which can be used
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Relationship between PRICE vs. TERMS
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Wrap's -- Your Multi Purpose Financing Tool
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Magnifying yield & capturing amortization
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Deal Structuring tips, tricks, and techniques
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Using other collateral
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The some NOW, some LATER concept
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Generating solutions and how to profit with "paper"
* The type of
notes preferred by "paper" investors or note buyers. Owner-occupied
homes are the most desirable. History has proven them the most
stable. Notes secured by land usually have the greatest
risk.
* Real estate
values fluctuate both up and down over time, even in good areas.
Why a note holder's best protection against loss is
protective equity established at the time
he acquires a note. An owner with a substantial equity who is
paying on a note will be motivated to protect his/her equity
position.
Some
Terms & Concepts to become familiar
with:
Your
Financial Calculator:
TIME:
Expressed in months or years (Calculator symbol =
N)
INTEREST:
The rate of interest or yield desired usually expressed per month
or per year (Calculator symbol = I). The annual interest rate must
be divided by the number of payments that the note requires during
the year. Monthly + by 12, Quarterly + by 4, semi-annually + by 2,
etc.
PRESENT
VALUE: The dollar value today of dollars to be received in
the future. (PV is the symbol.)
PAYMENT:
The amount of money paid periodically on the note. In the above
example, payment includes principal and interest. (Payment is the
PMT symbol on a financial calculator.)
FUTURE VALUE: As a seller carried back of a note to be fully amortized over 10 years, the future value (FV on the financial calculator) would be zero. However, suppose a note has a future balloon payment due before it fully amortizes. If you are solving for PV, you must first calculate the amount of the balloon or the Future Value (FV) before you can calculate or solve for the discounted PV value.
More
Terms
PROTECTIVE
EQUITY: Is the current market value of the property less
the total debt on the property. It is the sellers' or lenders'
cushion against possible loss. The larger the protective equity,
the more protection for the lender. Note: Having substantial
protective equity is the best way to take back a mortgage without
being taken.
LOAN-TO-VALUE
(LTV) ratio is the amount of debt on a property
expressed as a percentage of the Fair Market Value (FMV) of the
property. Example: A property valued at $100,000 has a first loan
of $50,000 and a second loan of $20,000. The $70,000 total debt
divided by the $100,000 Fair Market Value (FMV) = 70% LTV. The
lower the loan-to-value ratio, the more equity an owner has. For
example, with only $50,000 debt, the same property would have a LTV
ratio of 50%.
About
the Speaker:
Michael T.
Morrongiello is an active investor who specializes in Real Estate
& Real Estate "Paper" investments. Widely known as having one
of the most knowledgeable and creative minds in the paper business,
Michael started creating paper as a result of his own Real Estate
investment activities in the early 1980s. He has bought, sold or
held for investment multiple properties in several states as well
as thousands of real estate-secured mortgages. He has creatively
used seller financed mortgages to secure all types of residential
properties, apartments, mobile home parks, office buildings,
development land, businesses, and commercial properties in every
state in the Union from Alaska to Hawaii and Florida to California.
His tips, tricks, and traps articles often appear in industry
publications.
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Thursday May 15th,
2008 Speaker: Marko Rubel |
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Topic:
"How to make $20,000 to $50,000 per month Buying Houses Part
Time"
Take Advantage of the Tidal Wave of Opportunities that currently
exist and will continue through this market
"correction"
Don't Miss this opportunity to listen and learn what is working for Marko under today's market conditions
Join the
growing number of groups and members around the country who are
embracing a fascinating personal story as well as an original voice
the real estate investing field. When Marko comes to speak for your
group, you will learn
to:
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How to Dominate the Foreclosure market more efficiently
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Learn to automate your Direct Mail program and Skip-Tracing
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How to find REAL motivated sellers consistently
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How to better analyze deals for greater profits
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How to move quickly and efficiently to formulate offers, tie up the deal, and then get it closed
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And much, much more-you don't want to miss this meeting.
In over 5
years as a full time investor, Marko has completed several hundred
highly profitable transactions. Last year alone his automated
business produced over $1,000,000 in profits.
Marko
contributes his success to Marketing and Automating how he runs his
business. He will reveal one of his secret automation tools that
allowed him to systemize his operation. This proven system alone
was responsible for doubling his profits and
cutting his active involvement down to only several hours
per deal!
This
eye-opening presentation will blow you away! Marko will teach you
why setting up a "Motivated Seller Attraction
System" and a "Lazy Man's Back Office
System" is the key to doubling profits and at the same
time tripling your free time! You don't want to miss
it!
Don't let your competition get there first!
Thursday
April 17th, 2008
Speaker: Richard Desich - Equity Trust Company
Topic:
Accelerating Wealth with Self-Directed IRAs
Self-Directed
IRAs for the Real Estate Investor:
Your Knowledge + Your Expertise = Your Profits… Earned Tax Free with
the use of government sponsored retirement
plans.
One of the
greatest (and least known) tools available to real estate investors are
government sponsored retirement plans. Most real estate investors
believe that their only IRA investment options are bank CDs or the
stock market. Very few realize that they have the option to truly self
direct their IRAs in areas where they have knowledge and expertise such
as real estate.
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Choosing the right self directed custodian
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A review of your retirement plan Options
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Creative and high yielding Investment Options- Real Estate, Notes, Options, Private Placements and much more…
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Rules and Regulations/Prohibited Transactions
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How to Create Tax-Free income for life
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Plenty of Questions and answers
About our Speaker- Who is Richard Desich?
Richard Desich
As a Vice
President of Equity Trust Company, Richard Desich Jr. is a nationally
recognized, pre-eminent authority on non-traditional investing in IRAs
and qualified plans. An experienced real estate investor, Rich holds
Series 7, 24, 55 and 63 licenses with the NASD. A graduate of Ohio
State University, he joined Equity Trust in 1998, and now travels
throughout the country educating numerous investor associations and
groups each year on the advantages of self-directed real estate IRAs.
Rich has been quoted in prestigious financial publications including
the Wall Street Journal and Investor's Business Daily, and investors of
all levels and experience benefit from his expertise.
About Equity
Trust Company
With more than 32
years experience, Equity Trust Company is a leading custodial provider
of self-directed IRAs and small business retirement plans. Clients
benefit from our extensive expertise, dedication and customer-focused
support in providing truly self-directed IRAs, and our clients increase
financial wealth by investing in variety of opportunities from real
estate and private placements to stocks and bonds. Equity Trust Company
manages more than 30,000 accounts for clients in all 50
states.
SPECIAL
WORKSHOP EVENT:
Tax-Free Wealth Seminar
Stop Paying Taxes On Real Estate and Other Non-Traditional Investments
Today!
When: Saturday April 19th 2008
Where:
Embassy Suites
South San Francisco Airport
250 Gateway Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94080
# 650-589-3400
Time: 9
Am to 4 Pm - check in begins 8:30 am
For more information on this workshop, please click here
Speaker: author, investor, educator; John Schaub
Topic:
Creating Wealth During Uncertain Times
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Don't miss the wonderful opportunity to listen and learn from John Schaub
* Buying from sellers and lenders who are in trouble
* Using Investor money for your down payments
* Structuring financing that gives you the cash flow
* Buying property with the greatest profit potential
* Attracting and keeping the best tenants in your town.
* Selling quickly at market prices in a soft market
About John Schaub:
John has survived eight Presidents and prospered for 30 years as a landlord. He authored the original single family house seminar in 1976 which launched thousands on their way to successful investing. He is still an active buyer and engaged in managing his business and investments, when not traveling with his family, or building homes for Habitat for Humanity.
John is a reformed "Big Deal" guy, who discovered that most of the big talkers had small bank balances. John stresses keeping it simple. He talks only about what he has done and what has worked and sometimes not worked for him. John spends nearly all of his working time making deals and managing his properties. He teaches only three seminars a year.
He stresses buying better, well located houses as opposed to less expensive houses or other income properties. Better houses are much more profitable and far less trouble. He advocates paying off debt, owning properties free and clear and maximizing cash flow by only buying properties with larger profit potential, financed so they produce immediate cash flow.
John graduated in 1970 from the University of Florida College of Business, was an active Realtor for 10 years and served as President of both the Sarasota and Florida Real Estate Exchangers. He is listed in the Hall of Fame of Who's Who in Creative Real Estate, featured on the cover of Personal Finance magazine and was recently quoted in Forbes.
He is an advocate for privately owned affordable housing. He served 7 years on the International Board of Habitat for Humanity and has served four terms as President of the Sarasota Habitat Affiliate and served 17 years on their board.
John's wife Valerie, a real estate attorney, and their three perfect children enjoy skiing, boating, diving, horseback riding, and touring the country in John's plane. John is an instrument rated pilot and has been flying his own plane since 1973.
IMPORTANT WORKSHOP DATE CHANGE
The John Schaub
WORKSHOP event has been changed to a new date from Sat. 3-22-2008 to
the NEW date of Saturday 3-29-2008 - same times, same
location.
PRE-
REGISTER TODAY for John Schaub's
Full Day Sat. 3-29-2008 Workshop
Event
Creating Wealth During Uncertain Times
Time: 9 Am to 4 Pm
When: Saturday March 29
South San
Francisco Conference Center
Near SFO
This will be a powerful information filled event you simply must attend.
* Special Bonus Material to also be presented by Michael Morrongiello on using alternative & creative financing techniques
Seating is VERY limited! - Don't Wait - Pre-Register Today!
For a workshop brochure, registration form and more information click here
Speaker: Jay P. DeCima a/k/a "Fixer Jay"
Topic:
Investing in small Mixed use and Multi Unit
properties
About our
Speaker:
Author of the fabulous "Making BIG Money Fixing Ugly Houses" book and
"Trade Secrets" newsletter we distribute to all new BAWB members as
part of their membership package Jay will discuss a topic he knows very
well. How to invest in and make money with smaller mixed use and Multi
unit rental investment properties.
Don't miss this
opportunity to listen and learn from this seasoned "Old Timer" and the
wisdom he shares with Real Estate investors around the
country.
Jay P. DeCima,
known to many as "Fixer Jay", is a seasoned real estate investor with
more than 40 years of hands on experience; nearly half that time has
been devoted to Jay's specialty - fixing-up rundown houses and adding
value. In 1980, Jay quit his 23K-year telephone job to pursue real
estate investing full time. Today, Jay is widely regarded as the
undisputed king of fixer-upper houses on the national teaching circuit.
He spends a great deal of his time overseeing his 200 house empire in
Redding, California, and writing about his
experiences.
Since Jay's favorite recreation is the same as his day to day activities. He always enjoys sharing his knowledge with the various investor clubs around the country.
If you wish to get your book autographed - bring it to the meeting.
January
17th 2008 Meeting
A (2) Two Part Information filled Program you do not want to miss!
The Campbell
Method: A Proven Timing System that Tells You EXACTLY When to Buy and
Sell Real Estate to Make Maximum Profits!
&
The Mortgage Meltdown Freeze = Fraud
Part 1 –
San Mateo, CA Attorney, freelance writer;
Sean Olender
MORTGAGE MELTDOWN
Interest rate 'freeze' - the real story is fraud
Bankers pay lip service to families while scurrying to avert suits,
prison
Excerpt:
…unfortunately, the "freeze" is just another fraud - and like the other
bailout proposals, it has nothing to do with U.S. house prices, with
"working families," keeping people in their homes or any of that
nonsense.
The sole goal of
the freeze is to prevent owners of mortgage-backed securities, many of
them foreigners, from suing U.S. banks and forcing them to buy back
worthless mortgage securities at face value - right now almost 10 times
their market worth.
The ticking time
bomb in the U.S. banking system is not resetting subprime mortgage
rates. The real problem is the contractual ability of investors in
mortgage bonds to require banks to buy back the loans at face value if
there was fraud in the origination process.
And, to be sure, fraud is everywhere. It's in the loan application documents, and it's in the appraisals. There are e-mails and memos floating around showing that many people in banks, investment banks and appraisal companies - all the way up to senior management - knew about it.
To read the rest of this insightful article go to:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/12/09/IN5BTNJ2V.DTL
Part 2 – Author of Timing the Real Estate Market, Statistician, & Investor;
Robert Campbell
The Campbell
Method: A Proven Timing
System that Tells You EXACTLY When to Buy
and Sell Real Estate to Make Maximum Profits!
"Is now a good time to buy ...
or should I wait?"
"Should I sell now ...
or will housing prices go even higher?"
 |
Dear Real Estate
Investor:
Imagine for a moment how you would feel if you could predict major
turning points in the real estate market.
Suppose somebody handed you a 21-year time-tested
system that would tell you ahead of time when property values
were going to hit a peak … and then when prices were going to hit
bottom years later.
If you could anticipate these kinds of critical real estate events in
advance … then not only could you make spectacular profits, but you
could protect your money as well.
Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it?
Actually, it's not. The real estate market does signal its future intentions
if you know where to look.
Hello. My name is Robert Campbell and I wrote Timing the Real
Estate Market to help both professionals and ordinary people
make the most money in real estate with the least amount of risk. Based
on a major breakthrough in tracking and
predicting real estate trends, my book reveals the real estate timing
technique that I call The Campbell
Method.
As far as I know, The Campbell Method is the only proven method in the world that shows how to accurately anticipate upcoming changes in your local real estate market.
What this means
is that when you read Timing the Real Estate Market,
you are going to learn how to make – and protect – your fortune in real
estate in the same way that J. Paul Getty, the Rockefellers, Warren
Buffett, and other super-rich investors made their fortunes: by
focusing on WHEN to buy and sell.
It's true. When
it comes to making money in real estate, nothing beats good
timing.
The reason that The Campbell Method is going to change the way you think about how to buy and sell real estate is that I share my truly remarkable discovery of five key real estate indicators. I call them "Vital Signs," and they're able to predict the peaks and valleys of real estate cycles with an almost uncanny accuracy. As "leading indicators" to what's looming on the horizon for real estate prices, these Vital Sign indicators act like windows into the future, giving you advance notice of approaching trend changes from three to six months before they become obvious to the general public.
Author's
Note: Timing the Real Estate Market is used
at the University of San
Diego by Professor Elaine Worzala. The class: Real Estate
Investment. "The logic behind these Vital Sign indicators is
air-tight," says Professor Worzala. "I'm very impressed, and my
students love your book."
Copies of Timing the Real Estate Market will be available for purchase and autograph by Robert Campbell at the meeting.
Workshops in 2008
Saturday April 19th 2008
SPECIAL WORKSHOP
EVENT:
Tax-Free Wealth Seminar
Stop Paying Taxes On Real Estate and Other Non-Traditional Investments
Today!
Equity Trust Company's Tax-Free Wealth Seminar is coming to the SF Bay Area to educate you on how limited investment options and taxes that drain profits can be problems of the past...
Where:
Embassy Suites
South San Francisco Airport
250 Gateway Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94080
# 650-589-3400
Time: 9 Am to 4
Pm - check in begins 8:30am
One of the nation's leading custodian for self-directed IRAs, details the amazing benefits that self-directed IRAs can provide you today and in the future. This day-long event showcases the power and astounding growth potential of self-directed IRAs and below is some of what you'll learn:
·
Quick turn real estate and Note deals TAX-FREE
· Raise millions of dollars hassle-free to fund your deals
· Compound your profits TAX-FREE for over 100 years
· Make your children or grandchildren millionaires
Sign-up Today! It's easy, just click below to obtain the workshop registration form, fill it out and mail or fax it in.
The Pre-registration deadline expires Tuesday April 15th 2008
If you pre-register in advance, your cost is just $99 per person, $149 per couple.
After the deadline and on a space available basis at the door the cost will be $199 per person or $249 per couple-no exceptions
FREE Bonuses available only to you but only if you PRE-REGISTER!
Sign up in advance and receive $410 worth of fabulous educational products including:
* Two FREE months of Investor Insights - a private teleconference with Dick Desich held the 1st Wednesday of each month- a $300 value.
*
Dick Desich's book, "Proven Wealth Building Secrets for You and Your
Children"
-a $50 value.
*
Dick Desich's lease option report
- $20 value.
*
Equity Trust's guide to "Stop Paying Taxes to Your Real Estate Profits
Today!"
- a $40 value.
The FREE Bonuses are yours but you must
PRE-Register BEFORE the deadline date!
Don't Miss This Incredible Opportunity To Learn From A Nationally Recognized Expert!
For a workshop brochure, registration form and more information click here
PRE-
REGISTER TODAY for John Schaub's
Full Day Sat. 3-29-2008 Workshop
Event
Creating Wealth During Uncertain Times
Time: 9 Am to 4 Pm
When: Saturday March 29
South San
Francisco Conference Center
Near SFO
This will be a powerful information filled event you simply must attend.
* Special Bonus Material to also be presented by Michael Morrongiello on using alternative & creative financing techniques
Seating is VERY limited! - Don't Wait - Pre-Register Today!
For a workshop brochure, registration form and more information click here
And don't miss the exciting Peter Fortunato's exciting October Workshop:
Taught for First Time in over a Decade on the West Coast! - Don't Miss
this Opportunity to learn from the Master
Dealmaker
Peter Fortunato's
Real Estate Acquisition Techniques Class
Peter will
present (2) two days of lecture and discussion, with case studies,
regarding the acquisition and control of Real Property. Questions &
Discussion are encouraged!
PRE - REGISTER
TODAY for the Upcoming BAWB sponsored
FULL DAY WORKSHOP - Saturday & Sunday October
11-12
For more information on this fabulous workshop event please CLICK HERE!
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