MID-AMERICA ASSOCIATION OF

REAL ESTATE INVESTORS

Why Join MAREI

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NETWORKING : EDUCATION : COMMUNITY 1st Quarter 2012

NEW MEETING LOCATION Ward Parkway Shopping Center Inside Across from Starbucks

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2011 National REIA Awards of Excellence Contact Information
PO Box 8685, Prairie Village KS, 66208 Phone: 913-815-0111

Our Mission Statement

Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors is dedicated to promoting ethical real estate investing and to protect and promote the best interest of our membership through educational and networking opportunities as well as community, legislative and public relations.

Legal Disclaimer
MAREI does not exist to render and does not give legal, tax, economic or investment advice and disclaims all liability for the action or inaction taken or not as a result of communications from or to its members, officers, directors, employees and contractors. Each individual should consult his/her own counsel, accountant and other advisors as to legal, tax, economic, investment and related matters concerning real estate and other investments.

Honors Of Merit Electronic Communication & Membership Development

Content Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed by authors of articles contributed to this newsletter do not necessarily reflect those of the association, the board of directors or the staff.

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MAREI
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Kim Tucker 816-523-4400 Director Kim@MAREInet.com

Don Tucker 816-523-4400 President Don@MAREInet.com

Steve Burns Audio Visual cashflowtreasures@gmail.com

John Welchert Meeting Ambassador 816-522-0002

Dan Goodwin 913-642-5218 Meeting Ambassador DanGoodwin@kw.com

Shelda Goodwin Meeting Ambassador SheldaGoodwin@kw.com

volunteers:

Be sure to thank our volunteers who

help out at each and every meeting making sure the entire meeting is a success. If you would like to volunteer from time to time to help set up, take down, or check in, or assist for a few hours in the business office, please email info@MAREInet.com or call 913-815-0111. Need: Blog Articles, Newsletter Articles, Workshops for Members, Guest Speakers, Office Assistance, Web Master . . . If this might be you, let us know!
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Real Estate Investors and Landlords depend on a well rounded team of professionals. If you are building your team or looking to make a trade, start your recruiting with our Vendor Members and Business Associates. See a complete list of suppliers and any discounts they may offer to MAREI members by visiting, www.MAREInet.com.

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Asset Protection Insurance Agency www.REOIns.com 877-752-2742

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For everyone that joins now or at the meeting on Tuesday we have several free giveaway items for you to choose from: Buying Real Estate without Cash or Credit
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Discounts for MAREI Members: Receive 20% off all Regular Priced Advertising. Log into Members Area, click on Member Discounts and look for MAREIs Discount code!

How to Create Multiple Streams of Income

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Directors Welcome
Since the first planning meetings way back in November 2003, Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors has came a long way and has a lot more to offer our members for their $99 annual dues than just the opportunity to go to a meeting once a month. Our website has grown to have a bunch of very useful tools and resources and takes a prospectors map to navigate. We have a public side of our website to help support local and national investors who cant quite swing the membership fee or have not yet seen the value in being a member. We also have a private, members only section that supports our members. We will cover some parts of both in this welcome packet. Since that very first meeting we have also aligned ourselves with National Real Estate Investors Association to bring more to our members and take us from the club status to a trade association status. Through our alignment we are able to bring our members an ever growing list of money saving discounts, valuable tools for our businesses, and more. The more that comes from National REIA is in our Community Involvement Efforts, Government Affairs Committees, and an Industry Standard Education Program. To cover all the wonderful benefits available to you would take a full day training class and then some, I personally attend one National REIA meeting a year to brush up on the old benefits and find out about the new ones and it is a 4 day event. So in an effort to tell you about all the benefits of our Association we have copied the Member Welcome Packet with out links to the Members Only specific items. I hope you will find time to browse through to learn more about them and how you can utilize them. Note that this packet is created as a digital packet as many of the tools and money savings are online and require web site links to access. So you may want to print this out and put in a notebook, I urge you to keep it in digital form so you can find things online faster. Secondly as we add or change things we will update this Packet and post in on the website for current members to download. And we do get new stuff quite often so we update quite often. So, thanks for considering membership in our association, when you join you will receive a similar package that includes full access to all the member benefits and discounts. Browse through the packet, use the benefits, and get involved.

Kim Tucker
Director of MAREI KimatMAREI@Gmail.com 913-815-0111

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General Meeting What to Expect

Many of our guest and new members are unsure as to what to expect at our monthly meeting. Where do I go? What should I bring? What happens? So first we currently meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at Career Education Systems (www.CESKC.com) that is located inside of the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas City Missouri. Park on the State Line side of the mall, use the main entrance and you should find Career Education across from Starbucks. You should prepare a bit to attend this meeting. This is a place to meet people and do deals. So if you offer a product or service, please bring business cards. Have a property for sale, bring a stack of flyers or stack of brochures. We have a general marketing table where all attendees may place a stack of business cards or brochures or flyers. We also suggest a small notebook to take notes or a new tech tool to take notes through out the meeting. So what happens. As you walk in we have a check in table. MAREI members will need to check their name off the roster and pull out their name tag and wear it through out the meeting. New members and guests will want to check in at the registration table and pay their fees. Note that if you are a first time guest, meaning you have never attended a MAREI meeting before you can use the FREE guest registration in this newsletter. If you are a second time or a third time guest, you will need to pay $25 at the door or save and register

Monthly Meeting
Monthly Meeting: Usually 2nd Tuesday of the
Month., 6pm to 9pm Career Education Systems, FREE for members, Guests $25 at the door, $15 if you preregister

Dont miss this event!

Agenda 5:00 Set Up 6:00 check in 6:00 vendor hall 6:30 new member orientation 7:00 mini speed networking 7:15 guest speaker:

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online on our calendar of events for $15. Any fees that you pay to attend a meeting can be applied toward a full membership should you join right there at the meeting that night. We also have a bonus for those joining at the meeting or in advance of the meeting. We have a box of assorted books, Audio CDs, and software that all new members can select one item out of the box. After checking in, find our general marketing table and place your flyers, brochures or what ever it is that you brought with you. Then work your way around the room and find out what each and every one of the vendors have to offer.

Register for any give aways that they might have. Next we suggest you take a bit of time and brush up on your networking skills before you attend a meeting. We have a full hour from 6 to 7 where attendees can work the room to meet as many new contacts as possible. Feel free to introduce yourself to everyone. At 6:30 we have a very informal new member orientation where we go through all of the benefits we have for our members and answer questions about MAREI. This is a short 15 minute session. At 7:00 we go into our short mini speed networking where we break into groups and take 15 minutes

for everyone in the group to take the time to meet each other and exchange business cards. At 7:15 we take our seats and introduce the guest speaker or speakers. Our presentation is always an educational presentation, not a sales pitch, where you will have the opportunity to learn. Our speakers run till 8:30, when we end the presentation and have the speaker available for more one on one questions. We also have further networking from 8:30 until 9:00 as well as issue the Professional Housing Provider Certificates for the evening. Last we collect the member name tags so they have them for the next meeting.

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MAREIS MEMBER BENEFITS PROGRAM

AT-A-GLANCE
USE THIS PAGE AS A GUIDE TO VALUE ADDED DISCOUNTS TOOLS AND SAVINGS CREATED JUST FOR YOU ON GOODS AND SERVICES YOU USE EVERY DAY.

YOUR MEMBER BENEFITS

Landlord Services

Suppliers

Marketing

Screening for tenants & workers with 20% discount for members.

Learn how to save money at Home Depot and register for a 2% Rebate for all purchases & rentals across the US.

Affordable Landlord Websites with a 15% discount or free trial for members.

Electronic collection for bounced rent checks. No charge to you.

Websites for investors, landlords, and other services. FREE trial. All members receive a discount card to access our exclusive discounts up to 40% off all paint, supplies, and flooringnationwide.

FORMS & DOCS

Member Library is packed with forms and docs, plus 15 % discount at EZ Landlord Forms for premium forms.

Service Provider

Discount card for all members providing a 10% discount on all services. Market your rentals on the nations top ranked rental site. Member discount is 20% off Regular Prices. Members have access to many great tools and savings including discounts of up to 7% - nationwide.

News & Information E-Update

Our weekly email update with whats happening in real estate including properties for sale, government affairs and local market data.

Office Solutions

Save on select FedEx Office copy and print services up to 20% and on FedEx Shipping up to 22%.

Discounts of products through Sears Commercial plus 5% off Gift Cards.

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The newsletter for Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors: published monthly and distributed both in print at our meetings and digitally to our database of over 5000 people.

Membership

Receive discounts up to 65% on over 12,000 products you use the most online and in store.

FREE membership in Community Buying Group for all MAREI members to bring you even more great discounts.

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Member Service
Magazine for the real estate investor. With discount subscriptions for MAREI members. We have several services as part of our website to help you grow your business. MAREIs Government Affairs actively monitors national legislation and rule-making that impacts the real estate industry and harnessing the strength of MAREI members at the grassroots level. Calendar of Events to stay up to date with all of our activities. MAREI members also receive timely Calls to Action when there is a time for our members to take action on an important vote. Members also have access to the latest in Market Data.

Other Discounts

Nearly 70% of QuickBooks users say that it makes their business more profitable. Get your Accounting on track. Buy at a 40% discount through National REIA.

REAL ESTATE BOOKS

The nations largest provider of real estate training materials, DEARBORN is Americas Premier Real Estate Publisher. Members receive up to 40% off.

Browse the member properties to find your next deal. Take the time to post your investment opportunities for other members and site visitors to browse.

VISIT
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Housing Provider
NaPHP: Professional Housing Provider The PHP Certification is a National Designation and Certification from the National Association of Real Estate Investors. Earn Your Professional Housing Provider Certification with MAREI Earn instant credibility and show those you are working with that you are a professional investor committed to the highest standard of excellence. All MAREI educational seminars have been approved for students to earn credits towards obtaining the nationally acclaimed Professional Housing Provider Certification offered by the National Real Estate Investors Association (National REIA). Details To earn the PHP Certification, you must complete a minimum of 60 credit hours of education: 42 hours in required core subject areas, and 18 additional hours in the subject areas of your choice. MAREIoffers all the seminars needed to complete this certification program on a two year cycle. What is the PHP Designation? The PHP designation is a national educationbased certification program designed to recognize the high level of knowledge and professionalism among the designation holders. It is sponsored and overseen by the National Real Estate Investors Association, a non-profit trade association serving the real estate industry. Why Obtain the PHP Designation? Only individuals completing the educational requirements will be permitted to hold themselves out to the public as a Professional Housing Provider. The designee will be recognized in the form of an award certificate, pin, and the right to use the designation. By having a standardized education in the topics outlined increase your ability to achieve your goals in real estate investing. Further, as National REIA works to increase the visibility of the PHP designation, individuals who have earned the certification are held to a higher standard of credibility when dealing with legal and governmental bodies. It aids legislators in perceiving educated investors as a larger group for political action, and in turn, provides our industry with greater legislative influence. How Will I Obtain These Hours? Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors offers course in all the areas needed to complete this certification. When attending a MAREI PHP certified training event, attendees must arrive within 5 minutes of the start time to be issued a PHP Certificate. For the certificate to be valid, it must be embossed with the MAREI seal at the end of the program. Certificates will be embossed no earlier than 15 minutes before the scheduled end of the event. Attendees must attend the entire event; no partial PHP credits can be awarded.
Attendees are responsible for keeping track of PHP certificates and will not be replaced. Attendees are also responsible for tracking progress towards completion of their PHP designation. A tracking folder is available for download and at meetings. Once all courses have been completed, submit your PHP certificates to the PHP committee for verification of award. In addition, courses completed at MAREI can be combined with PHP certified courses offered by other NaREIAassociated organizations and conferences. It is possible that seminars and training events offered by other groups may qualify for PHP credit; however, all outside training events must meet the following requirements: 1. 2. They must be taught live The must be pre-approved by the MAREI PHP Committee

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They must provide a Certificate of Attendance acceptable to the MAREI PHP committee.

Insurance (Property) 1 hour

Keeping Track of Hours Download the Master Record Sheet from the Website or pick up at a meeting or other PHP Event. Collect PHP Certificates at the Event and Keep with your Master Record Sheet. Mark youre your credits down in the Master Record Sheet. Once you have completed the Required Core Credits plus an additional 18 Credits, confirm with the MAREI and earn your certification and the right to use the Professional Housing Provider Designation in your marketing.

Insurance (Workers Compensation) 1 hour Local Regulations 2 hours Management 4 hours Marketing 2 hours Negotiation 3 hour Purchasing 2 hours Rehab (Classroom) 2 hours Rehab (Hands-On) 2 hours Tax Law (Income) 1 hour Tax Law (Other) 1 hour Tenant-Landlord Law 2 hours

Required Credit Hours in Core Subjects

Appraisal 2 hours Contract Law 3 hours EPA Regulations 1 hour Ethics 1 hour Fair Housing Law 2 hours Federal Regulations 1 hour Finance 6 hours Inspections 2 hours Insurance (Liability) 1 hour

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Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors New Member / Guest Application

CONTACT INFORMATION NAME #1: NAME #2:

Date:

COMPANY NAME: ______________________________________________________ ADDRESS: OFFICE PHONE: _____________________ FAX: ________________________________

EMAIL #1: EMAIL #2: _________________________________ (need a good email address for each member to send your web site passwords) PAYMENT INFORMATION ( ) FREE Guest Entrance for first MAEI meeting Select type of membership: ( ) Standard / $99 ( ) Business / $499 ( ) Add a 2 nd Person $50 ( ( ( ) Monthly Payment - $15 to start and then auto bill $12 a month must pay via valid credit / debit card on file. ) Quarterly Payment - $35 to start and then auto bill $30 every 90 days must pay via valid credit / debit card on file ) Quarterly Business - $149 to start and then auto bill $135 every 90 days must pay via valid credit / debit on file ( ) Check Payment Check # _______ (annual only)

Please make checks payable to MAREI MC/ Visa/Discover /Am EX Credit Card #:

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Billing Address: ________________________________________________________________________________ Of Credit Card PROFESSIONAL INTEREST User Name 1: ________________ User Name 2: __________________

How did you hear about our association? _______________________________________ If a friend referred you, please provide their name so we can thank them properly.

Membership Directory: Please only include information you would like to be printed in the directory.
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Application for MAREI membership shall in no way be considered or deemed to be providing investment or financial advice and all applicants agree to waive any and all claims against this organization. In no event shall the applicant seek to hold the organization, its officers, or directors liable; either directly, or as a principle or agent of any other member organization. Applicant releases any and all claims it my presently have or may have in the future. Memberships are not transferable or assignable. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel Membership. If cancelled a Pro-rated refund for unused portion of membership will be returned. ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP IS FOR ONE YEAR FROM THE DATE OF APPLICATION. Temporary is only for 1 month. Autobill renews every pay period with automatic debit or credit card charge. For Office Use Applicant #1 Signature: ______________________________ Date: ____________ Memberize ______ Web Site ______ Applicant #2 Signature: ______________________________ Date: ____________ Quick Books ______ Welcome Email ______ Please mail completed forms & payment to: Home Depot ______ MAREI (attention membership) Membership Pkg ______ PO Box 8685 CBG ______ Prairie Village, KS 66208 Name Tag ______ Or fax to 201-574-2969 Phone 913-815-0111 02.08.2012 Or Join Online on our secure server at www.MAREInet.com

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Property Management Section 8 Housing KC Metro Wide

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Flexible rehab options and purchase financing for qualified investors! Ann Wilkinson Vice President Mortgage Loan Production 12501 Antioch Rd Overland Park, KS 66213 Ph: (913) 402-1500 Fax: (913) 402-0673 AnnW@ArgentineFed.com www.ArgentineFed.com

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informed MAREI Professionals

From Motivation to How To
MAREI members are above the crowd. They participate in an informative newsletter, blog, and social media experience. They connect, ask questions, and share opportunities through our interactive website and live meetings. Plus they save $100s using the many member discounts.

targeted group Of Clients

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MAREI sets the standard for real estate investor networking and education, drawing the type of client you want to do business with. Our meetings and online presence gathers targets the qualified leads your business needs. But there is only one way to get in front of them . . become a Business Member today!

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