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MEMBER BENEFITS
For an initial fee of $150 per year, and a renewal fee of just $100, CREIA members receive the following:
Monthly Meetings
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| Hear the “Hot Seat Speaker,” listen to experienced professional investors, network with other investors, participate in “Roundtable Discussions,” take advantage of buy and sell opportunities with “Show and Sell,” and bring a guest! (Guests are charged $15 or $20 per couple per meeting, which can be deducted from membership dues if they join CREIA the same evening). |
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Monthly Newsletter
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| Read about upcoming events, articles about investing, technical information, classifieds with homes to sell and buy, rentals, and more! |
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Real Estate Library
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| Learn from our large collection of audio tapes and books written by the experts (Carlton Sheets, Jim Napier, John Schaub, Nick Koon, etc.) Free to members! |
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National Speakers
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| At least once a year you have the opportunity to hear inspiring nationally known speakers addressing key aspects of real estate investing and describing how they achieved success. Members receive a discount. |
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Local Speakers Seminars
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| Several times a year you will have a special opportunity to spend a half-day learning about investing. Past seminars have included topics from a wide variety of subjects including “How to use a Financial Calculator,” “How to Negotiate Deals,” “Tax Strategies,” “Landlord-Tenant Relationships,” “Buying and Selling Mobile Homes” and many others. |
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Monthly Focus Group Meetings
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| Meet informally to network, learn and share information. Current Focus Groups include Mobile Homes, New Investors, Experienced Investors, Landlording, Haywood-West and Hendersonville. Focus Groups are free to CREIA and other REIA members. Guests are welcome to "visit" once for free. Thereafter, the required cost to attend is $15 per meeting or CREIA membership. All Focus Groups are held in and around Asheville, NC, unless otherwise noted. |
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Basic Real Estate Investing Course
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| Learn how to be a successful investor by taking this annual, 20 hours course given by one of the founders of CREIA. Members receive a discount. |
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Commercial Sponsorship Program
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| Advertise your business or learn where to find help through our Commercial Sponsorship Program. |
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Annual Investor Cruise
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Come enjoy a fabulous, low-cost cruise while getting educated by nationally-known speakers! Be a part of our national organization (National REIA) and exchange ideas and experiences with other investors to read, learn and enjoy!
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Other Benefits & Discounts
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Professional Apartment Services Membership.
Get discounted appliances, carpeting, electrical, plumbing and cleaning supplies.
Credit Union Membership. Take advantage of low-cost personal loans.
OfficeMax Impress Printing Discount
The National Association for REIA has a national account with OfficeMax ImPress-the printing side of OfficeMax. Anyone who is a member of REIA anywhere in the country gets great discounts on many printing needs. Click here to download your info packet which includes the retail connect card. You can print it and take it to your local OfficeMax ImPress for lamination and use it each time you have a print need. This recognizes you as a corporate account and your discounts come up automatically at the register. The other is a flyer that tells a little of OfficeMax Impress's capabilities.
FedEx Office Discount
The National Real Estate Investors Association is pleased and excited to announce a new member benefit, the National REIA Discount Shipping Program. Through National REIA's agreement with PartnerShip, which developed and manages the program, National REIA and local association members enrolled in the free National REIA Discount Shipping Program receive significant inbound and outbound discounts on small package shipments through FedEx®, as well as copying and printing services through FedEx OfficeSM.
The program is FREE, with no obligations and no minimum shipping requirements. Click here to enroll in the National REIA Discount Shipping Program. You'll save from your very first shipment — and every shipment after!
How much will you save? Click here for discounts, FAQ's, and general information about the National REIA Discount Shipping Program.
If you have any questions, please call PartnerShip at 800-599-2902 or send them an email at sales@PartnerShip.com.
Home Depot Rebate Program
Home Depot will rebate to you twice a year 2% on all your purchases from Home Depot. NOTE: The only way this can be tracked is by registering any credit card that you would be using to make a purchase at Home Depot. You can also register any checking account that you might be using to pay for your purchase.
To get started, go to: http://cpr.homedepot.com/cpr and you will see a log in page. Click on the small orange "register now" to the right of the word "Login". This link will take you to a page titled "User Registration" . Enter your data and enter "NREIA" where you are asked for a program code. After you complete this page, you will be taken to another page titled "Create Customer". You will enter company information for your investing. After you submit this information, you are registered. Another page will appear "CPR Home - Manage Customers. Mouse over the icons on the right under "action", and you can put in the credit card(s) you want to associate with the account.
You will receive an email welcoming you to the program with your username and password to keep on file.
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