I Survived Real Estate 2008 - Bringing together the real estate community to benefit the Orange County Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Thank you 7 Steps to a 720 Credit Score and Philip Tirone for becoming Gold Sponsors for I Survived Real Estate 2008!

More information on 7 Steps to a 720 Credit Score: http://www.7stepsto720.com/

The 7 STEPS TO A 720^® CREDIT SCORE program was created when mortgage broker Philip X. Tirone noticed that good people with good intentions were consistently turned down for home loans. Those who did qualify often paid unnecessarily high interest rates. On a $300,000 home loan, a person with a poor credit score could pay as much as $212,040 extra over the course of 30 years.

This is simply unacceptable. 7 STEPS TO A 720 CREDIT SCORE exposes the rules of the credit game, allowing countless Americans to increase their credit scores and save hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars in interest payments. 7 STEPS TO A 720 CREDIT SCORE is a credit-improvement strategy based on patterns of change identified by studying tens of thousands of credit reports. Available to the public, the system is also used by real estate agents, mortgage brokers, investment advisors, and accountants across the nation to help borrowers save money, qualify for the best loans, and reduce interest payments.

About Philip Tirone

An expert in residential home financing, Philip X. Tirone has a unique background in difficult-to-obtain loans, having started his career working with borrowers with stated incomes and/or poor credit scores. With this foundation, he became a specialist in the credit-scoring process, authoring the book, 7 STEPS TO A 720^® CREDIT SCORE, as well as the bestselling workbook, APPLYING THE 7 STEPS TO A 720^® CREDIT SCORE.

Philip is the founder of the Mortgage Equity Group (the MEG) and specializes in educating borrowers and helping them increase their credit scores so they qualify for the best loan programs available. The MEG is a non-traditional mortgage company composed primarily of team members committed to providing each homebuyer with specialized time and services unique to his or her needs, complementing traditional mortgage services with innovative programs aimed at reducing mortgage payments and maximizing buying power.

Philip has an uncanny ability to develop innovative strategies to simplify the mortgage process. As a frequent guest lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles, Philip has authored and delivered numerous speeches about avoiding the “Mortgage Lifestyle Dilemma,” a phrase he coined to describe an emotional buying decision that results in overextension and a life that revolves around high mortgage payments.

Philip and his programs have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times.com, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Woman?s World Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Bottom Line Magazine, and Bankrate.com, among others. He was recently featured in the New York Times bestseller, Secrets of the Young & Successful. In 2008, he will be featured in Dan Sullivan?s forthcoming book, Industry Transformers, which identifies eight individuals who are having a profound impact on their industry by creating meaningful ways for their clients to bypass the bureaucracy and the red tape most consumers face.

Named Arizona State University?s Man of the Year in 1994, Philip currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Lily, daughter, Ava, and son Dominic.

Thank you Short sale Processor and Nick Manredi for becoming Gold Sponsors of I Survived Real Estate 2008!

More information on The Shortsale Processor and Nickolas Manfredi: http://www.theshortsaleprocessor.com/

Nick Manfredi is a real estate investor, speaker and corporate business owner. He has been featured in Fortune Magazine and The LA Times, and contributed to articles in the news media including CNN Money Magazine, The Press Enterprise, and RISmedia.

In 2002 Nick established one of Southern California’s most respected real estate investment club’s The Inland Empire Investors Forum. Focused on volume, he continues to wholesale 80% of his acquisitions.

Eager to capitalize on California’s changing market Nick co-founded The Short Sale Processor LLC. As CEO of Forum Real Estate Investments Inc., Nick continues to buy residential & commercial property in California and Texas. Nick resides in Southern California with his wife Susan and 3 boys Gabriel, Nathan and Jacob.

http://www.theshortsaleprocessor.com/

Thank you Foreclosure Trackers for being pat of I Survived Real Estate 2008.

More Information on Foreclosure Trackers: http://www.foreclosuretrackers.com/

Foreclosure Trackers, Inc. (”FTI”) is a true one-stop foreclosure investment center that gives its members the data and education necessary to succeed.

Foreclosure Trackers was the vision of two investors: CEO Robert Lee and President David Phelps. Frustrated with the amount of time they were spending gathering information instead of leveraging into deals, they began collecting property data into a single database. Amazed by the amount of time, money, and energy they were saving by using such a resource, both investors realized that other investors could benefit just as much from their hard work.

Today, www.ForeclosureTrackers.com is the internet’s fastest growing website for anyone looking to purchase a distressed property or a defaulted mortgage. The website’s powerful combination of proprietary data, professional-grade products and services, and top-notch education makes it an invaluable tool to both the novice and the professional, and to both homebuyers and real estate agents. We can vouch for the quality of our products and services, because we use everything on FTI’s website ourselves.

The strength of our data comes from the fact that we process and aggregate it ourselves, unlike our competitors, who merely publish incomplete data. With an FTI membership, you have the confidence of knowing that your information is days old—not months. We also make it easy to get mortgage lien information, actual property photographs, images of the Notice of Default and Notice of Trustee’s Sale, and more, and it’s all in one convenient location. FTI is the only website where you can obtain everything you need to accurately determine a property’s value and make an informed purchase decision.

What makes FTI different from our competitors is that we place every one of our members on a path to success. It is not enough that our members have access to the most detailed property information on the internet—we want to show them how to profit from the market by using that information. From our informative, free 90-minute previews and Home Study Library to our Interactive Intensive 2-Day Training, there’s a level of education that fits everybody’s needs and skill level. Simply put, we’ve made it our mission to give both the beginner and the experienced investor the tools they need to invest successfully.

http://www.foreclosuretrackers.com/

Thank you so much NCREI and Sam Sadat for sponsoring a table at I Survived Real Estate 2008. 

Info on NCREI: http://www.ncrei.com/

The Los Angeles National Club of Real Estate Investors (NCREI) was created in response to an overwhelming demand for a networking forum from Real Estate Expert Sam Sadat and his associates. At the NCREI we are committed to helping real estate investors learn from the best speakers and materials available.

Our mission is to educate, enhance networking, and encourage you to take action to attain your financial freedom!

However, we believe that education alone is not enough. We are focused on motivating our members to take their future in hand by using what they’ve learned and taking action towards their goals. Sam and his associates help members through Education, Connection and ACTION!

http://www.ncrei.com/

Thank you so much LAREIC for sponsoring a table at I Survived Real Estate 2008. 

Info on LAREIC: http://www.realestateclubla.com/

The Real Estate Investor’s Club of Los Angeles was started in 1996 by 20-year veteran investor, Phyllis Rockower, who moved at the bottom of the market. Since she had no contacts in L.A., she formed a real estate investor’s club in order to network and to meet people of like minds. After having belonged to such a club in the other cities she lived in, she knew the value of mingling with people who can help you and won’t discourage you.

We are not professional seminar promoters. We are experienced investors who have been there and done that and are dedicated to helping you sort out fact from fiction and, educators from pure pitchmen.

We have thought about some of the things that these unscrupulous characters are doing that seem suspect and came up with some rules to consider when deciding what is a real club and what is not.

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   1. How long has the outfit been in business? If it’s only since the market got hot-beware!
   2. Do the meetings have no charge? Why would they not charge? What is their objective?
   3. Are they only promoting one person’s service or material? If so they are not objective.
   4. Do they have a professional staff of high powered sales people? This is not cool.
   5. Do they contact you with high-pressured sales pitches? Once again, they are not about teaching you, but selling you.
   6. Do they constantly try to get you to sign up for more and more expensive coaching services that run $5000 and more? If so, they do not have your interests at heart. You need to buy educational materials but most don’t run into the thousands of dollars.
   7. Do they offer money back guarantees on all the products and seminars they sell? Lots of luck with some companies that don’t.

There are many honest and reliable outfits and clubs that are genuinely beneficial to those looking to increase their knowledge. We always promote these people as they do for us.

http://www.realestateclubla.com/