Now why attend a live meeting versus an online one? Well, in business, most folks with money want to see who they might be working with. Are you a professional or are you just a person looking and acting as though you know what you are doing? I have to say, so many people solicit online for deals and money, and you can ask them a few questions and they have no clue to the answer.
That’ s why live meeting with great networking will show the seasoned investors you should be committed to learning from and not just those trying to get rich quick at any cost. Meeting people in person is still the most effective way to see their expressions when asking questions, and if you’ re new, let them know. Everyone was new once in investing. What we don’ t want is someone wasting our time.
Now clubs can be new or have been around forever. I like the beenaround forever ones, especially since my club www. 1REclub. com has been around forever. Here, you meet a lot of investors who have survived different cycles of real estate and can help guide you on what to look out for or be ready to make a move on.
At 1REclub, we do bring in about four national speakers a year, and yes, they are offering specialized trainings for sale. That’ s good since they most likely have done that specialized type of investing for years. But just because they are selling something does not mean you have to buy it. However, my experience has been you are going to pay one way or the other. It’ s the other that can put you out of business quick! Just like college, they charge you. By the way, once you start investing in real estate, you are in sales!
Now over my career, I’ ve learned I’ m the kind of investor who pays for others to teach me quick. I’ ve learned the most valuable asset I have is TIME! And I
don’ t want to waste it trying to save a few bucks. I’ ll pay to get started now instead of learning from all the mistakes I will eventually make.
Another thing to look for at clubs is how they operate. If it’ s all about food, drinks, partying, talking trash about the other clubs, usually that’ s the club trying to sell you something while hooking you with all that FREE stuff! Nothing wrong with free stuff, but it does train your mind to be have a broke mentality or socialism mindset. And in America we are capitalists! It’ s why others around the world want to come here.
Now at our club, we do have a great networking dinner after the meeting down the street at a local Catina. We all go eat drink and network with all the vendors that support our club. We have REALTORS ®, hard money lenders, property managers, roofers and so on. You can sit next to these experts and pick their brains about real estate investing.
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