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MAREI May Meeting: How to Source Real Estate Deals in 2025 with Troy Kearns

Live at the MAREI Real Estate Investor Meeting

– May 13, 2025 in Overland Park, KS

If you’re wondering how to find motivated sellers, off-market properties, or undervalued homes worth flipping or holding — this meeting is for you.

Sourcing real Estate Deals in 2025

Join MAREI and special guest Troy Kearns, a full-time real estate investor with over 20 years of experience, as he shares real-world strategies for sourcing profitable real estate deals in today’s market.

Whether you’re brand new to real estate investing or already doing flips, rentals, or wholesales — finding quality deals is still the most important (and most frustrating) part of the process.

At this month’s MAREI meeting, you’ll learn from Troy Kearns, a full-time investor who’s built a 7-figure real estate business across multiple markets by doing one thing exceptionally well: sourcing undervalued properties before the competition.

From boots-on-the-ground strategies to tech tools and creative tactics, Troy will walk you through how he’s finding deals in 2025 — and how you can too.

What Troy will be Sharing on Tuesday

roy went from broke to building a multi-million-dollar real estate portfolio—and he’ll show you how to:

Find motivated sellers and off-market deals in 2025
Use tech tools like driving-for-dollars apps to uncover hidden gems
Decide whether to flip, wholesale, or hold a property
Evaluate market value quickly and accurately
Know what to look for before buying a property
Get started with no money, little money, or grow faster if you’ve already done a few deals
Access the tools, knowledge, and mentors to scale your business

Who Should Attend

New real estate investors just getting started
Wholesalers looking for fresh lead sources
Flippers and landlords wanting more deal flow
Anyone trying to figure out their next step in real estate investing
Investors in the Kansas City area who want to grow their network and knowledge

Don’t Miss Out — Reserve Your Spot Today!

📍 DoubleTree Hotel – Overland Park, KS
🕕 Tuesday, May 13th | 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

MAREI Master Class: How to Underwrite Private Loans with Chris McCarty

Thinking about lending your hard-earned cash secured by real estate?

Before you wire a dime, join us for this must-attend Masterclass and learn how to evaluate private lending opportunities the right way.

Whether you’re lending from cash or a self-directed IRA, you’ll walk away with the tools you need to protect yourself, avoid disasters, and create profitable win-win deals.

What You’ll Learn:

✔️How to screen your borrowers — so you’re not relying on “gut instinct” or losing money to nice people with bad deals
✔️The critical deal info you must have before considering any private loan
✔️Due diligence best practices — even with friends or past borrowers
✔️The paperwork and legal protections that need to be in place in case things go sideways

Meet Your Instructor: Chris McCarty

Chris is a 35-year veteran of the real estate investing world who’s successfully completed over 2,000 private loans. His teaching is packed with real-world experience, and he’s passionate about helping others become smarter, safer lenders. Plus he comes to us from his local KREIA – where he is the past preseident!

Don't get Burned Because You Don't Know

Private lending is a fantastic way to earn solid returns AND help fellow investors fund great deals.
But we’ve seen too many lenders make rookie mistakes that cost them time, money, and sleep.
That’s why we strongly recommend you take this class BEFORE you make your first (or next) private loan.

Registration & Pricing:

💰 MAREI Members: $47 through April 24th | $67 after

💰 Non-Members: $97 through April 24th | $127 after

👉 And yes, if you’re not a member yet, you can join MAREI for just $25/month or $149/year and save $50 on this class + enjoy all our monthly meetings and events where you can connect with a lot of potential borrowers.

🎥 Can’t attend live?
Register anyway — all registrants get access to the replay!

Carrots 30 Day Authority Building Challege:

Join the Carrot 30-Day Challenge & Get More Leads!

Next Challenge Starts May 5th

Are you ready to take your real estate investing website to the next level? The Carrot 30-Day Challenge is designed to help you generate more leads and close more deals—all by dedicating just a few minutes each day to improving your site!

This challenge will walk you through one powerful task per day, helping you build credibility, drive traffic, and optimize your marketing strategy so you can start seeing results fast.

🚀 The Challenge Kicks Off the First Monday of Every Month!

What You’ll Accomplish in this 30 Days

Week 1 – Mindset & Marketing Plan

Launch your Carrot site
Build credibility to attract motivated sellers & buyers
Localize your site for better rankings
Adjust your content strategy for conversions
Plan & schedule your content

Week 2 – Content & Automation

Week 3 – Driving Traffic

Week 4 – Content Hyperdrive

Build citations to improve search rankings
Generate backlinks to strengthen site authority
Create & publish your first video
Set up a Buyers website
Start building a highly targeted Buyer List

Want to Learn More Before You Start?

If you’re not quite sure if this is for you—or if you’re not ready for a full 30-day challenge—here are some other great ways to explore Carrot:

🔗 Get a Carrot Demo – See Carrot in action before committing.
🎥 Free Carrot Workshop – Learn how to maximize your site’s potential.
📋 Get Your FREE Marketing Plan Generator – A step-by-step tool to help you create a winning strategy.

🚀 MAREI is an affiliate partner with Carrot, so when you sign up through us, you’re supporting our community while getting the best tools to grow your business!

REIBlackbook: Business Management Q & A (Virtual on Zoom)

REI Blackbook Virtual Q & A: See How it Can Help You

Next Session is Monday May 12th at 6pm.

REI Blackbook helps stressed-out, busy real estate investors close more deals and build better businesses without sacrificing their souls.

This meeting is for people who are looking for a solution to help them market, follow up, & track their business. Bring the problems you are trying to solve in your business and ask how REIBlackbook can help you . . . like

I need more seller leads, how can I generate more (they have several ways to help you generate leads)
I need to get a handle on where my leads come from (several built-in tools to track where people come from)
I need some automation . . . for me and my staff, how can REIBlackbook help with that?
I need a phone system . . . that is virtual, trackable, recordable, and integrated with my system.
I need some way to keep track of all the moving parts, and to automate.
How can I use AI in my systems?

This platform was built to basically be a systematic business in a box for real estate investors, many of the built-in workflows and automations are real estate specific. But it is 100% customizable, so you could use it in just about any type of sales situation.

So if you need to get organized, and you need systems, this is one of the best places to start. You can just jump on this training and go from there. or if you have the time, watch the demo and then join us at 6pm Central.

New Vestors

NEWVestors – A MAREI Subgroup for Brand New Investors

Starting your real estate investing journey? You’re not alone—and you don’t have to figure it all out by yourself.

This month, we’re holding a special ‘pop up’ meeting to show you how to buy more rentals using creative financing (subject to, owner held mortgages, creative partnerships, and more), and why the 2025 market is offering more opportunities to do that than we’ve seen in over a decade…

Introducing NEWVestors, a new MAREI subgroup created for brand-new investors, by a brand-new investor. This is your space to connect with others who are also just getting started, to ask the “silly” questions (they’re not silly, we promise!), and to start building a solid foundation of knowledge and support.

Led by: McKenna Zandecki, new to Kansas City and to real estate—but passionate about learning, sharing, and growing with others.

Who Should Attend?
Anyone just getting started in real estate investing—whether you’ve read a few books, gone to a meeting, or just heard the term “BRRRR” and wondered if it’s a sound or a strategy.

Honest conversations with fellow new investors
Guest speakers covering the basics you actually need to know
A supportive environment where you can ask anything
A chance to connect with your future accountability partners, deal buddies, and mentors

The Basic Details

Where: Engel & Völkers Brokerage
When: Every other Monday
Monday May 19th 6 to 8 pm
Monday June 2nd 6 to 8 pm
Monday June 16th 6 to 8pm
Monday June 30th 6 to 8 pm

See the MAREI Calendar for more info and to register

MAREI Express Success Group Coaching: DSCR Loans for Investors with Rob Fishbein

Debt Service Coverage Ratio - the "IT" Loan for Investors

For buy-and-hold real estate investors, DSCR loans have become THE THING.

That’s because they’re easier to get than conventional loans, but they have their downsides, too.

Learn Everything You Need to Know at This Month's Express Sucess Coaching Call

At this month’s Express Success member-only class and group coaching call, Rob Fishbein of JM Real Estate Capital will talk through the pros, cons, and process, and answer all of your questions. You’ll learn

The basic way in which DSCR loans are different than conventional loans
What qualifications the property has to have to get one
What qualifications YOU have to have (short answer: not as many as you think)
What you’ll have to do, process-wise, to get a loan
What they cost in terms of rates, closing costs, and fees vs. a FNMA or FHLMC loan
Terms you can expect, like pre-payment penalties and “no second mortgages” clauses

How to Get a Seat at this Zoom Class

If you’re an Express Success member, you’ll get an email telling you how to log in to the meeting.

If you’re not, you should join! The benefits are HUMONGOUS. Check it out under the “Express Success” tab or just click HERE