Frustrations with REIAs

[Thomas Rones]

Im just wondering what frustrations you all have with your local REIAs and if you have found a better solution for networking.

It seems to me like its just a bunch of tire kickers except for maybe 2 or 3 people per REIA.

It seems to me like there is alot of "sales pitchyness" and most of what is being "taught" I already know from one book or another.

So has anyone else had this type of experience?

...I'm gonna be honest here. I feel like the value I get from attending REIA events is little to none and I wish to change that. So right now I am finding out if there is demand for some kind of system that we could use to rate REIAs.

Maybe use some metrics like:

Sales Pitchyness.

# of members

Knowledge of memebers

# of relationships that ACTUALLY resulted in deals.

Quality of educational events.

Personally I am actually in the lending industry so I use Meetup, LinkedIn, tradeshows, caravans, Ci, GROUPS on LinkedIn, Facebook, etc

Any thoughts? Anyone want to JV on this?

[Chris Martin]

Haven't been to a REIA (Real Estate for the Inexperienced Association) for years. I can't respond to your post. Too many newbies all over the place make it, like you say, a low value event. Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.