MAREI Hosted Events
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MAREI Master Class: The Roadmap to the Passive Income End Game . . . with Marc Halpern
Did you get into real estate to WORK for the rest of your life?
Or were you hoping to build up TRULY passive income—the kind where you collect checks instead of constantly dealing with tenants, borrowers, and deal evaluations?
If your real goal is financial and psychological freedom, then you don’t just need rentals or notes…
You need TRULY hands-off investments like syndications and private placements.
💡 That might seem like a far-off goal, but you can get there much faster when you understand the roadmap from new investor → estate builder → truly passive investor.
Meet Your Guide: Marc Halpern
Marc Halpern isn’t just another investor—he’s a PhD chemist, successful author, and “part-time investor” (because his investments don’t take up much of his time once they’re made!).
At this one-time online workshop, Marc will lay out the exact roadmap so you don’t waste decades figuring it out on your own.
What You’ll Learn:
🟣 The difference between active, semi-passive, and ACTUALLY passive investing
🟣 Where the top 8 real estate investment strategies fit into the active-to-passive journey
🟣 How to intentionally transition from active to passive investments using Marc’s “Tracks” strategy
🟣 The truth about syndications (and why they can still be more active than you think!)
🟣 Why private placements are the ultimate passive investment—and how to access them
🟣 How to find Private Placements (Hint: They aren’t advertised to the general public!)
🟣 How to manage the risk of investing in other people’s deals
🟣 What due diligence you MUST do before investing in private placements
🟣 How to diversify your investments within private placements
🟣 Why you’ve NEVER heard of this at a real estate association—until now
Who Should Attend?
If you know your real goal is to be a part-time investor with a full-time LIFE, but you’re unsure of the next steps, this is for you.
Event Details & Special Pricing
📅 Live Online Workshop
💰 $67 for members | $127 for non-members
🎯 EARLY BIRD PRICING: Register by Thursday, February 20th and save!
🔹 Members: $47
🔹 Non-Members: $97 (or join MAREI and save even more!)
🎥 Yes! If you’re registered, you’ll get lifetime access to the recording for your education library—even if you can’t attend live.
NO . . Marc is not selling a course, he’s just a long-time REIA association member looking to help other’s like him short cut a process that took him a long time to figure out. He does have a book on Amazon if you want to go buy it: “Now Be Happier: How to Measure Your Happiness Score, Make Changes and Be Happier“
Learn How to Harness the Power of Connected Investors
🚀 REAL ESTATE INVESTORS! Want More Deals, More Funding, and More Tools to Close? 🏡💰
What if you had a one-stop-shop for finding off-market deals, connecting with private lenders, and getting all the contracts and forms you need?
👉 Enter Connected Investors – the real estate investor’s secret weapon.
We’re bringing in two powerhouse PIN users, Karen Lewis & Eudania Burrell, to pull back the curtain and show you how to use Connected Investors to find hidden deals, fund your flips, and scale your business.
💡 Here’s what you’ll learn:
✅ How to find off-market properties before they hit the MLS (Pre-MLS Access!)
✅ How to skip trace owners and make offers FAST
✅ How to connect with cash buyers & private lenders – over $3 BILLION in deals happen here every month!
✅ How to access the exact forms & contracts you need to close more deals
🚨 This is a LIVE event, and you do NOT want to miss this insider training!
Click the button below to get registered
Summit Real Estate Investors Nationwide Help Night
📅 When: Wednesday February 26th
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM Central
💻 Where: Virtual on Zoom (Register to receive the link)
🎟️ Cost: FREE – Open to all serious real estate entrepreneurs
No Sales Pitches. No PowerPoints. No Fluff. Just Real Help!
What is Summit Investors Help Night?
This is NOT another webinar, lecture, or sales pitch. It’s a true networking and learning experience where real estate investors of all experience levels come together to:
✅ Get real-life, from-the-trenches advice from experienced investors
✅ Give help, referrals, and deal structuring insights to others
✅ Connect with real estate entrepreneurs across the U.S.
✅ Discuss a new theme or strategy each month
Come to learn. Come to help. Come to connect. Just come! Whether you’re brand new to real estate or a seasoned pro, you’ll walk away with valuable knowledge and new connections.
No Cash, No Credit . . . there are Still Deals
Wherever you are in the in the world, if you want real talk about the 2025 real estate market and get real-life advice and strategies about how to make the most of it, you should join us . . . sorry this is so last minute, but when we heard this was virtual, we asked if we could share with MAREI members.
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…
Let's Get Passive Cash Flow . . . with Rentals
But at current interest rates and prices, it’s really hard to find rentals that actually make money (unless you happen to have tons of cash to spend—and then the returns make no sense!)
Luckily for you, there are LOTS of ways to get rentals at better-than-market terms that DO work…and that solve seller problems better than the usual “all cash offer”.
These ‘creative deal structures’ aren’t new: they’ve been used by smart real estate investors for decades.
But they’re especially important right now, as high interest rates and prices are meeting up with a little slower market—giving you more opportunities to grab some great rental properties using creative financing.
Vena's teaching Some of Her Favorite Creative Structures
- How (and why) to get cash flowing rentals using other people’s money—owner financing, partners, and private lenders
- Why you can buy MORE rentals this way than you can conventionally, and do it faster, and build wealth and cash flow SOONER, and become an ender before you know it
- Why you can ALWAYS “out-offer” your competitors can when you understand the power of these structures—other investors can’t come CLOSE to your price
- The 7 ways to buy without cash or credit—and how to know which one to choose for any given deal
Join the Carrot 30-Day Challenge & Get More Leads!
Next Challenge Starts March 3rd
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
- Implement a proven content plan to attract leads
- Integrate your site with key 3rd-party services
- Connect your social media accounts for brand consistency
- Set up data tracking to measure success
Week 3 – Driving Traffic
- Create your first Craigslist post to capture leads
- Set up paid traffic sources (Facebook & Google Ads)
- Optimize your first Google Ads campaign
- Begin SEO strategies to boost organic 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!
MAREI Master Class: Find , Hire, & Manage Contractors with Ray Sasser
The hardest (and riskiest) part of flips and turnovers is finding the right contractors…and keeping them on time and on budget, and knowing how and when to pay them. Learn the process to follow and the pitfalls to avoid from an investor with over 4 decades’ experience in rehabbing. Members $47, non-members $97 through March 6th
REI Blackbook Virtual Q & A: See How it Can Help You
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.
- Demo of REI Blackbook
- REI Blackbook Free Trial
- MAREI is an Affiliate of REIBlackbook and may earn and Affiliate Fee
Mastering Tenant Turn over at the March MAREI Meeting
Your Tenant Just Moved Out… Now What?
👉 The unit needs work—fast!
👉 Contractors are unreliable.
👉 Days turn into weeks, and your property sits empty.
👉 And every single day without a tenant is money out of your pocket.
Turnover is one of the biggest hidden expenses in rental investing—if you don’t have a system in place, it will wreck your cash flow and drain your profits.
That’s why we’re bringing in Andrew Syrios, an expert in rental property operations, to share the exact strategies he uses to streamline tenant turnover, get properties rent-ready faster, and keep more money in his pocket!
What You’ll Walk Away With:
✅ How to retain good tenants longer (so you’re not constantly turning over units!)
✅ The fastest way to prep a unit for the next renter
✅ How to manage security deposit disputes the right way
✅ Should you hire contractors or employees? Pros & cons of both!
✅ How to oversee repairs & ensure quality without constant oversight
✅ Why standardizing materials can save you thousands
✅ How to integrate turnovers into your existing rehab processes
✅ The best way to handle evictions & abandonment cases
Who Is Andrew Syrios?
Andrew Syrios is a seasoned real estate investor and property management expert with over 500 rental units under management in Kansas City. As a key partner at Stewardship Properties, he’s helped grow the family-owned investment firm to nearly 1,000 rental units across seven states.
You may have seen Andrew on BiggerPockets, where he’s a trusted contributor, forum moderator, and educator helping investors build smarter rental businesses.
With years of hands-on experience managing turnovers, rehabs, and property operations at scale, Andrew is ready to pull back the curtain and give you a step-by-step system to reduce vacancy time, cut costs, and run your rentals like a pro!
Why You Need to Attend
🏚️ Every extended vacancy eats away at your profits.
💸 Every inefficient turnover drains your bottom line.
⏳ Every wasted day is money you’ll never get back.
At this event, you’ll learn how to take control of your turnovers, tighten your systems, and finally turn your rentals into a well-oiled cash-flowing machine!
🚀 Get the systems, insights, and expert guidance you need to maximize efficiency and keep your rentals performing at their best!
REGISTER NOW – LIMITED SEATING!
📅 Tuesday, March 11th
📍 DoubleTree Overland Park
⏰ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
💰 FREE for MAREI Members & First-Time Guests
💰 $35 for Non-Members (or just join MAREI!)
🚀 Make your rentals more profitable—lock in your seat now!
Express Success: How to Talk to Sellers About "Seller Financing"
Express Success is our 12-month “Quick Start” education and coaching program that includes monthly member web classes and group coaching calls, an on-demand library of over 100 ‘basic skills videos, unlimited online Q&A with Vena Jones-Cox, and every one of our Saturday online workshops at no cost.
This month learn how to talk to Sellers about Seller Financing.
Express Success Classes are available only for Express Success Students.
