Spokane REI meet up, who's interested?

[Phil Wells]

I've been interested in hosting a BP REI meet up for a while now and wanted to gauge the interest in the community as well as understand what people would like to get out of the meet ups.

Proposed format:

- The meet ups will be about 1-2 hours long once a month at my office in downtown Spokane. Refreshments will be provided.

- I'll open by covering the latest developments in the Spokane market such as the number of recent sales, average transaction values, number of days on market, etc. 

- I also have a local lender who has offered to assist with the meet ups who can come in to discuss the latest developments in loans and the issues he is seeing day in day out, as well as rate developments, etc. 

- From there I'd love it if attendees with different specializations such as hard money lenders, contractors, property managers, newbies, veteran investors and everybody in-between could present for 10-15 minutes on a topic of their choosing that could then be discussed so everyone can learn from each other.

- Finally a live deal analysis conducted by a different attendee every month so we can learn from each others methods.

Whilst the meet up will be hosted by me (a Realtor) & a local lender these meetings aren't intended to be a sales pitch for our respective services, they are intended to be a consistent time and place for local, like minded people to get together and talk real estate.

Let me know your thoughts below in terms of whether you're interested in a monthly event like this and also what format you'd like for it to take.