Meet the Experts: At MAREI
Meet the Experts at This Month’s MAREI Meeting
You don’t need another presentation.
You need the right people to turn to for real answers in your local market!
That’s exactly what this month’s MAREI Meeting is built for.
Build Real Lasting Relationships in the Right Room
We’re setting up the room with expert-led roundtables—each hosted by an experienced real estate investor with a different specialty.
Every 10 minutes, you’ll move to a new table.
New expert.
New perspective.
New opportunity to ask the questions that actually matter to you.
Real Access with Multiple Experienced Investors
✔ Ask questions specific to your situation
✔ Learn how different investors approach deals
✔ Discover who you want to build relationships with
Because at the end of the day, this business isn’t just about what you know—it’s about who you know and who you trust.
Who You’ll Meet
We’re bringing together a diverse group of investors, operators, and professionals covering everything from creative financing to multifamily, short-term rentals, legal strategy, and more.
Here’s a look at some of the experts you’ll have access to:
Table 5
Realtor Investor: Jim Godwin
Agent Strategy • REOs • Growing Rental Portfolios
Table 5
Realtor Investor: Johnathan Trimble – Getting Started • Rental Portfolios • Agent Strategies
Table 12
Property Manager: Tyler Shirk
Short-Term Rentals • Airbnb Systems • Optimization
Table 13
Lender Beth Langston
Mortgage Funding • Helping Investors Purchase & Maximize Cash Flow
Table 14
Investor Rachel Bailey
Self-Directed IRAs • Alternative Investing • Notes & JV Deals
Table 16
Investor: Mark Yanda
The Cabinet Guy • Buy & Hold Rentals • Building Your Team
DeMayoEnterprises.net
Table 17
Vendor Tristan Holloway
Foundation Repairs for Dry Basements & Solid Footings
Table 17
Entrepreneur Veronica Bolton
Professional Cleaning • Short Term Rentals
Table 19
Plumber Ken Crosby Professional Plumbing
Drains • Gas Lines
Sewer • Maintenance
Table 19
Plumber Cody Roberts Professional Plumbing
Drains • Gas Lines
Sewer • Maintenance
Table 20
Investor Drew MacDonnell Appraisals • Valuations • Complex Properties
Flip Properties
Table 22
Realtor Meagan Kang Long Term Property Management
Section 8 • 1st Time Home Buyers
Table 22
Realtor Nic Helm
Long Term Property Management • Tenant Mgmt • Repairs & Maintenance
Table 23
Lender Rob Fishbein Investor Funding • DSCR
Construction • Fix N Flip
Commercial Loans
Table 24
Investor Rick Hamrick
How to Use AI • Short Sales • Lien Negotiation • Harder Deals
Table 25
Insurance Agent Nathan Guthrie
Insurance for Real Estate Investors • for Tenants
E & O • for Service Lines
This meeting is open to anyone interested in real estate investing.
Its FREE for our Members and 1st Time Guests. We highly recommend joining. We are the room to be in for real estate professionals in the Kansas City Metro Region.
MAREI Office Hours
Bring Your Real Deals. Get Real Answers.
Our Members Only Office Hours run every 2nd and 4th Thursday, noon–1:00 p.m. Central.
No slides, no sales pitch. Just you, your questions, and two investors who’ve been in the trenches.
This is the Place to Be to Connect
Twice each month MAREI members jump online to ask questions about real estate investing. If it is real estate related — or even adjacent — we will tackle the question.
Do not have a question? Join us anyway.
Be a fly on the wall. The questions others ask may be ones you have had before or may face in the future.
Experienced investors are always welcome as well. Often the audience brings valuable insight and solutions to the discussion.
Coming Up
April 23
Attorney Julie Anderson
Landlord–tenant questions including screening renters, leases, fair housing, evictions, and squatters.
May 14
We are taking on all real estate investor questions, but we are posing a topic to work with in of infill housing. Building to rent on available lots, either one property or a small group of properties. If this is your think or you’d just like to be a fly on the wall, join us for conversation.
To attend, make sure your MAREI membership is current.
Then register on the calendar for the next session and we will send you the Zoom link.
MAREI’s Online Master Class: How to Do “Subject To” (Legally, Ethically, and Profitably)
Buying and flipping properties “Subject to the Existing Loan” is HOT…but there’s way more to doing SUCCESSFULLY than the internet gurus tell you.
That gap between what’s being taught—and what’s actually required—is where deals fall apart.
Right now, more investors are attempting Subject To deals than ever before…
Without fully understanding the structure, the risks, or the long-term responsibilities they’re taking on.
That’s leading to:
- Deals that don’t perform
- Sellers put in bad positions
- Investors facing legal and financial consequences
What You Will Learn in This Subject To Class
Not just how to do a Subject To deal…
But how to evaluate, structure, document, and manage one so it actually works—for you and the seller.
Because this strategy can work.
But only when you understand what you’re really doing.
✔ What a Subject To deal actually is (and what it is not)
✔ How to find and identify sellers where this approach makes sense
✔ How to structure offers that are realistic, defensible, and ethical
✔ The conversations you must be able to have with sellers—and how to handle the hard questions
✔ What disclosures and documentation are required (and what happens when they’re not used)
✔ How to handle insurance, servicing, and ongoing deal management after closing
✔ What can go wrong in these deals—and how experienced investors prevent those problems
✔ Why many Subject To deals being taught today are incomplete or incorrect—and how to avoid those mistakes
About Your Instructor
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Vena Jones-Cox has over 30 years of experience working with creative real estate transactions.
She has closed dozens of Subject To deals, worked through multiple market cycles, and dealt directly with the realities of lenders, sellers, insurance, and regulation.
She doesn’t just teach what works—
She teaches what holds up over time.