Real Estate Associatio Leader's Academy with... Multiple Experts 2022 | Ohio Real Estate Investors Association OREIA | 27 March 2022 | Virtual

If you own or lead a real estate investment association, you already know that they serve a unique and important role in the industry and the world.

As a group, our members create and provide more affordable housing than ANYONE—more than builders, more than big rental hedge funds, more than the folks who own the big apartment communities.

And it’s only through real estate associations that they learn to do it safely, ethically, and legally

Real estate associations are the only ‘uniting force’ for small investors, and as leaders of those associations, it’s our job to make sure that:
• We let as many small investors and wannabes know we exist, and why they should join, as we possibly can
• We have programming and education that teaches them how to make lots of money, recognize and mitigate risks and pitfalls, and be good ‘corporate citizens’ in their activities
• We meet them where they are, with education and resources for new, active, and experienced investors
• We teach what the education mills don’t: what the laws are, how to follow them, and how to treat buyers, sellers, lenders, partners, and tenants well
• We encourage them to do business together
• We grow our memberships to the maximum possible size, both to create more opportunities for members and to unite them to fight the tidal wave of anti-property rights legislation that’s sweeping the country
• We know how to represent them to lawmakers, the media, and the public as the hard-working, crucial businesspeople they are, so we can push back on bad laws successfully
• We don’t drive OURSELVES into the looney bin or bankruptcy trying to manage all of this