Filling the Hole Left by DFWREIN
A few people have written to me off line about filling the hole left by DFWREIN closing. I am not convinced that DFWREIN left a single hole. I believe it left several holes and I would like to see several solutions fill the gap.
If you want to start a club in your area I would recommend that you locate and speak with past and present owners of real estate clubs in Texas. Buy them some lunch and pick their brains.
You will probably find that REI club members want education and networking. Everyone wants to network with the most successful investor who will speak with them or with others who are at their same level of experience.
Education has two main groups of customers. Active investors want to know the newest information and want to skip all the basics. Inactive investors need to learn the basics and hope to find that one idea that will make real estate investing a get rich quick scheme.
That second group is huge. There are a lot of people that are too afraid to do their first deal. Those people will buy the ever-living heck out of guru programs to avoid going out and doing a deal.
I think you will find there are many holes left by DFWREIN. Fill the one’s that need filling and leave the others alone. Your club does not have to be the one-stop shopping place for all real estate investing.
It’s unfortunate that DFWREIN has closed it’s doors along with AIREO. Both groups provided good education and opportunities for dealers and investors along a wide spectrum of experience and activity levels. i personally have used DFWREIN and AIREO for contacts in my own investing teams that have turned out to be very beneficial.
I know how difficult it can be to find a good investor group that provides experienced investor mentoring from successful local investors and has members that are actually out there buying properties and not just tire kickers. I would like to invite any of DFWREIN’s former members to come out to our investor group You can read into our 19yr old investor and mentor group, Lifestyles Unlimited, at http://www.lifestylesunlimited.com. Check out our Free Introductory workshop schedule for our office here in Las Colinas, sign up for one and let us know that you were a DFWREIN member whenever you come in. We’ll get you taken care of. You can also give us a shout on the phone at 972-827-0208 and talk to any one of our mentors in the office M-F from 9-5pm.
Bryan
I’m not sure I agree with you or maybe I’m just being ornery today.
Creative destruction is a well known benefit of markets. As people like you innovate, others have to catch up or die off. It’s good when the others die off. They help everyone find the innovators.
DFWREIN and the AEREOs didn’t do change fast or often enough. That’s the best thing for the consumer.
– Charles