Our special Key Note Speaker for October is Mr.

I attended a large real estate investing convention a couple of years ago and one of the speakers (gurus) was a coach.

It costs some money, but you will be exposed to a great group of speakers and also have the opportunity to meet hundreds of investors, with a majority being from the BA. 

@Evan R. the ones I attends are as follow:MeetupJersey Shore Flippers and Funders Meetup – which meets up monthly (next one on 11/3) at the restaurant Skratch in Asbury ParkCentral Jersey & Monmouth County Real Estate Investors – coordinated by @Mark S. where the meeting is currently at Perkings in Red BankRING Philly (Real Estate Investor Networking Group – in Manayunk Brewing Company which has some good guest speakers and contentSJREI1.Princeton and Middlesex chapters (depends on topic), I noticed a Trenton chapter opened up so may venture there one nightThere are also numerous other meetup groups which I plan to attend which is all based upon schedule.

Specifically, there was a BP meetup in NYC, where the speaker went into IT systems for real estate investors.  

Your 200 is going to pay a motivational speaker who will deliver MINIMAL content.

The benefit of those monthly meetings is there is a topic that a speaker (or panel of speakers) covers.

Hassan,Greater Cleveland REIA is Tuesday night, 2/9 I am actually the speaker there discussing legal wholesaling in Ohio.

The speaker is a commercial lender that works with investor's.

AtlantaREIA appears to be a large one here, although based on their marketing and speakers (for example, "Mr.