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It will be on December 9th not the 8th. 

December 9, 2014 INREIA Meeting.
Prizes. Inspiration. Tricks of the Trade.

Please join us for our End of the Year Bash to share insider info, tricks of the trade, and other valuable information to make your 2015 your best investment year yet! There will be refreshments, a raffle, and contest (1st Prize is an iPad mini)! The meeting is Tuesday, December 9, 2014 from 6:30 - 8:00pm.

We can't think of a better way to close down 2014 and prepare for the New Year than celebrating everyone’s greatest victories, best lessons learned and boldest plans for 2015. As an investor community, we want to come together and share our stories, not only to help each other learn -- but also to motivate and inspire one another.

Landlord Registry Update
Before the fun begins, we will be providing an important update on the Marion County Landlord Registry, which is set to take effect January 1, 2015. Come empower yourself with knowledge so your rental business is in compliance starting Day 1 of 2015!

Raffle
We will be giving away great door prizes you can win just by showing up and entering the raffle. Some of the items include:

• Tools
• Gift Certificates
• Indiana Real Estate Legal Forms (compliments of Griffith Law Group LLC)
• Mugs

Investor Contest
We want to hear how you plan to utilize what you learned in 2014 to be better in 2015. Share with us your best investment story from 2014 or your knockout plan for 2015. At the end of the meeting we will have a vote and the winners will be taking home great prizes! Click the link below to provide us the details before the meeting.

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Hey @Logan Allec quote. It's how most of us started out. 

Indianapolis does have great ROI and you can find properties very affordable. We at Elden Investments have a one-stop shop experience. We also have a great property management company in house as well as a great preferred company outside if you don't want to have PM with us. It's all up to you.

Either way the states/cities like Michigan, Indianapolis, and Kansas City all sound good and can offer a lot of return on your investment. 

Mike,

Great post about Indianapolis. I couldn't agree with you more. We should connect!

Hello,

We are in the process of getting a CRM at our company. We currently have one, sort of, but we are not a big fan of it. I have been looking at Zoho. I believe it works similar to Salesforce.com without the higher cost. Salesforce bills annually and can get very expensive. We are a company of about 9 full time employees and we only need 4 of them to have a CRM, me included. The cost is very minimal in the whole scheme of things. Plus they bill monthly and you can even try them for free up to 3 users. I do not work for zoho and I have only used it for the last week or so but we can't use it full blown yet because we have a contract with our other CRM. Here is the greatest thing about them and why I think one day we will use them is because they integrate well with Google Apps for Business. We are in the process of moving our email domains to Google so that we use everything with Google. Zoho seems the way to go for us. Let me know your guys thoughts on this. Thanks!

I heard Propertyware is similar to this. I know we use it at work but I don't personally use it. I hear that you can enter a property in it and it can send out to Trulia, Craigslist, and other similar listings. From what I hear in the office it is a really great tool.

I'm learning a lot from all this as well. Good replies guys. Using % is a lot better than an actual figure amount. But is $500 to $1000 too much for a test. We do about $300 to $600 per month in Indiana for direct mail (which mails out about 800 postcards a month) and we get about 7-10 leads and usually 2-3 close. We are pretty small real estate firm and we do direct mail to acquire properties as well. But our acquisition department is only one guy and he can't handle that many leads. I just came on board as a marketing director and we are still testing. Any thoughts??

Thanks, Joel! Maybe we can all meet someday in person. You too, Erin!

Thanks!