I'm always very weary of anything that sounds like a guru pitch and I have gotten that vibe from a couple things I've heard, but the outside speakers have been informative and the folks around me pleasant and helpful, so we'll see.

As far as I know the guest speaker is a well known real estate attorney.

However, I went to the first meeting and the main speaker was an out-of-town guy giving a super high-pressure sales job for some MLM program called "Financial Education Services Protection", which didn't actually have anything to do with real estate, other than he was pitching us to pressure credit challenged prospects into buying this (my opinion) predatory program.

Marketers YellowLetters.com Michael Quarles and New Refined Images Jerry Puckett will be out to share, along with 30 other speakers..

She advised me to try and focus on getting my life together, which she defined as securing better employment in science; the degree that earned me my student loan debt.I don't know if I will be attending said REIA again next month because of the "speaker" they had that night.

The speaker is Jim Ingersoll.  

I could, perhaps, get a guest speaker to speak on a topic that everyone is interested in or would like more info on.

I have some suggestions as far as how the meetings can be formatted and I will be able to bring in certain guest speakers at future events, such as mortgage lenders, attorneys, successful investors to tell their stories...

It's a FREE meeting of landlords and flippers that is featuring a speaker from Columbus Building and Zoning Services.

Phillip Thatcher, the president of Landlords of EJC has been approved as a Speaker at the Independence Council Meeting, he has been given only 5-min to speak; but, that should give him enough time to express our "points of opposition" to this Article.