SPEAKERS

March 6th & 7th 2020 | CHATTANOOGA

Mike Butler | Autopilot Landlord | Louisville, KY
Mike Butler began his real estate investing career while working his full time job as an undercover police detective in Louisville, Ky. Mike Butler began buying fixer uppers and renting them to make extra money vs. working “off duty” moon light jobs like many of his fellow police officers.
Mike discovered very quickly how investing in real estate is the way to true financial freedom for his family. He then exploded his real estate business by buying an average of 2.5 rental properties every week while working his full time job! Mike did this for several years over and over!
Mike Butler knew he must have a brain dead simple system for his booming business and developed his “Investor Friendly” simple Investor Books Pro System™ with Tenant Tracking and Loan Customer Tracking (the only complete system for investors using QuickBooks Pro®) to achieve true financial freedom for his family.
His unique and proven system allowed Mike to safely catapult and turbo-charge his investing business. In fact, he owned and operated over 75 properties while working his full time job! Finally, he made a huge decision to hire a “part time” office person to work 5 hours per week in his office in his basement. Mike get Over 100% of his rents every month.
Check this out. Mike Butler has NEVER gone to a bank to buy an investment property nor has he used a private lender or hard money lender. Mike started investing with less than a thousand bucks!
Now Mike Butler works when he wants to – as a fairly new husband to Beth, Dad to Rachel and Melissa, an investor, speaker, author, coach, and consultant.
Mike’s investing success has been featured in Money magazine’s featured article “Can Real Estate Make You Rich?” and The Wall Street Journal Radio network with over 170 syndicated radio shows. He has authored the book “Landlording on Autopilot,” #1 Best Seller Business Books on Amazon. His book has become the “go-to-training-manual” reference for thousands of landlords and property managers around the world.
Mike Butler enjoys training and helping millionaires and future millionaires and is a sought after featured speaker and trainer at real estate seminars all across America.
Be sure to visit his website at http://MikeButler.com for live investor training events, home study courses, coaching programs and more resources for real estate professionals.
Mike Butler is a two term past president of KREIA and board member for almost a dozen years, a charter member of the local chapter of NARPM, KREE member (exchangors group), served three years on the board of the National Real Estate Investors Association, and is a supporter of The Home of Innocents, a great organization to help disadvantaged abused and neglected children.

Mike Todd | IRA Innovations | Nashville, TN
Mike Todd is the Business Development Manager with IRA Innovations and will be speaking on self-directed IRA’s/401(k)s. Having been with IRA Innovations since 2007, Mike conducts numerous seminars, webinars and podcasts every year showing individuals how they can eliminate or reduce their taxes with a self-directed IRA.
Mike will show you how you can use your self-directed IRA, or other people’s IRA’s, to fund various projects such as real estate or lending. Mike’s in-depth knowledge of self-directed IRAs can help you significantly grow a small IRA in a short amount of time. Of the many ways to use your IRA, Mike will also speak on checkbook IRAs.
Mike is also an avid real estate investor who currently owns properties, performs numerous rehabs as well as new constructions projects. IRA Innovations has been providing personalized self-directed IRA services since 2003.

Chad Harris | True Wealth Investors | Dayton, OH
Chad Harris started buying real estate out of necessity when his job ended in 2013. He quickly built a portfolio of over 50 units without any bank loans, using creative financing and raising money from private investors. He continues to grow his portfolio to increase his income, lifestyle, and impact and loves helping others do the same through TrueWealthInvestors.com.

Jeffrey Holst | Old Fashion Real Estate | Chattanooga, TN
Jeff is a recovering attorney who spends his time as a real estate investor. Jeff graduated early and with honors from Michigan State College of Law where he was the graduating class speaker. He also holds a M.B.A.
At 30 years old, Jeff checked the last item off his personal bucket list by climbing Machu Picchu. He was on top of the world. As he stood looking down at the lost Incan city, he had been living the life of his dreams. He was well traveled, having previously visited the Pyramids in Egypt, climbed to the top of Mt Sinai, swam with sharks in Belize, and backpacked alone around Europe. He married the girl of his dreams. He had a beautiful house in the suburbs and a thriving law practice. Two weeks later, he was in the hospital dying. His business was in disarray, his wife was barely holding it together and he was on his way to bankruptcy.
Today, at 41 years old, just over a decade later, Jeff is back on top. He is a millionaire, with over 140 residential units in his personal portfolio. He also owns multiple commercial properties. He is still married and continues to travel extensively. He is also co-host of the Old Fashioned Real Estate Show where the hosts drink bourbon old fashioneds and talk about real estate.
www.jeffreyholst.com www.oldfashionedrealestate.com www.youtube.com/oldfashionedrealestate

Steven VanCauwenbergh | Savvy Landlord | Oklahoma City, OK
Steven was raised by his single mother in a one-bedroom apartment in New Jersey. He grew up with one simple dream. He wanted to live in a house. Steven took that dream, rolled up his sleeves, and has purchased more than 130 properties starting from nothing.

Steven is a long-time investor in income-producing properties and has mastered the critical areas of purchasing, financing, renovating and managing real estate. He has authored several books and courses empowering people to reach their goals of financial freedom.

Listen to Steven's radio show at savvyradioshow.com | www.thesavvylandlordbook.com

Thomas Morgan | Flip/Wholesale Veteran | Chattanooga, TN
Thomas Morgan is one of Americas Top Wholesaler. Starting his real estate career he begin with a bank account of $78.90 and a credit score of 522. At 22 Faced with 50,000 dollar of medical bills hitting his credit he knew he had to find a way out.

At a very young age, Thomas could see and sense that the push for real estate was something that he needed to figure out. Thomas was smart of enough to find a mentor that could show him the ropes, Thomas recalls, "One thing that I did different than anyone else was I listened to my mentor and did exactly what I was told and I did it with no debate".

After massive action, Thomas found the keys to wholesaling over 60 properties a year with a one man operation and producing over $1 million. Thomas's accomplishments have been recognized nationally and he now travels for giant names like Rich Dad Education, Legacy Education, and Brick by Brick teaching and inspiring people all across America.

Thomas has found the keys to success and has a mountain of knowledge that he is passionate about sharing. You can see more about Thomas Morgan by following him on facebook.com/ThomasWMorgan

No one gets rich working for wages. You get rich using money--yours or someone else's. -William H. Pivar

2019 Speakers:

Jeffery Taylor, C.P.L. | Mr. Landlord | Chesapeake,VA
* Author of THE LANDLORD’S SURVIVAL GUIDE and THE LANDLORD’S KIT, the bestselling book nationwide on the subject of property management.
* Founder of the MRLANDLORD.COM website, that has over 1,000,000 page views every month, and the most visited Q & A Forum on the Internet by rental property owners where answers and tips are provided by fellow rental owners across North America, professional property managers, CPAs, and real estate attorneys.
* Chief Executive Officer of MR. LANDLORD, INC. – A national property management consulting firm that provides coaching tips to over 100,000 landlords annually and assisting owners with 1 to 1,000 rental units.
* President of Home Rental Publishing – #1 national provider of information and resources for the small rental owner. Home Rental Publishing annually writes and publishes numerous books, reports, home-study courses and publications for rental owners.
* Rental Property Owner – He and his wife have acquired and manage rental properties ranging from single family to apartment communities for over 25 years and have been married for 30 years with two sons whom God has blessed them with.
* Graduate of UCLA, Masters degree work in Communications and has an Honorary Masters Degree in Real Estate Investing.
* Jeffrey’s been interviewed on numerous talk radio and TV shows across the country and he’s been quoted in hundreds of publications, newspapers, and magazines including: appearing several times on CNN, quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, Personal Finance Magazine, Real Estate Journal, Business Week Magazine, and The New York Times.
* Conducted over 1,000 seminars and workshops and he’s assisted thousands of landlords nationwide in increasing their monthly Cash flow and Resident Retention.

Al Williamson | Leading Landlord | Sacramento, CA
Al is a retired professional engineer, full-time real estate investor, author and trainer He began investing in 1996. Al is best known for publicly documenting his quest to create enough ancillary income to cover the 1st mortgage of his eight-unit apartment building (which he accomplished in September 2015). Please note that the ancillary income does not count the traditional rents. This is income above and beyond that. Thanks to the strategies he uses he was able to greatly surpass and retire from his engineering job. He is a proud family man who now spends his days managing and expanding his corporate housing business in Sacramento, California. He is now documenting his quest to develop an additional $10,000 in additional monthly income from rentals he does not even own, through the power of short-term rentals. Al has spoken at prior Mr Landlord events on the topic of AirBnB. Trust me when I say Al has literally grown his business 5 to 10 times in the last 5 years. He has taken his rental-income building strategies to a whole new level and likewise now does AirBnB rentals on a whole new level. And the good news is that Landlord entrepreneurs can do what Al is doing in any state, and develop a massive rental income stream debt free: And he has documented exactly what he is doing as proof and is doing it in the public arena where others are literally watching him doing it. At our Convention he will share exactly how you can triple your passive rental income, replace your 9 to 5 income and massively build up your retirement savings. Less maintenance costs, less headaches, less if any debt and more Cash Flow! Come see what Al is doing like you’ve never seen him before! http://leadinglandlord.com/

Elizabeth Colegrove | Reluctant Landlord | Handford, CA
Elizabeth Colegrove, author of “The Everything Lease Addendum, the book about how to rewrite a lease in an hour! I am a blogger, entrepreneur and a passionate investor who was so tired of hearing that it wasn’t possible to be successful in real estate that I started reluctantlandlord.net. As a transparent landlord, I not only talk about how to be successful in the world of real estate, but also my love for life in traveling, frugal living, and all my other crazy ideas that keep our tiny family on our toes.
I am blessed to be happily married to an amazing Navy man for the past nine years. We have one 11 month old daughter, Isabel and two kitty princes and princess.

Read Elizabeth's blog got to http://www.reluctantlandlord.net/

Kurt Philips | Running Creek Properties| Lancaster, OH
Kurt Phillips is a buy-and-hold real estate investor in Central Ohio. Kurt has the practical experience of being a hands-on landlord for 15+ years, and he understands the need to balance time-frames, capital, and cash-flow. As a former UPS employee, he built his real estate portfolio while working the insane hours of a full-time driver. In 2016, Kurt was able to walk away from UPS in order to live life on his own terms and spend more time with his wife and six children. Today, he manages his primarily Victorian homes throughout the Lancaster, Ohio area using innovative technology and business systems. He also supports other local investors through the Lancaster Real Estate Investors’ Group. Kurt, alongside his wife Elizabeth, also provides financial coaching all over the country and has taught numerous workshops on financial literacy and entrepreneurship. Together, they are passionate about helping other families work in unity and earn financial independence through real estate.

You can follow him on FB @runningcreekproperties or see his gallery of work at www.runningcreekproperties.com