Expert Speakers:

Bruce Norris

President

The Norris Group

 

Bruce Norris is an active investor, hard money lender, and real estate educator with over 29 years experience. Bruce is host of the award-winning Norris Group Real Estate Radio Show and Podcast on KTIE 590am where he interviews real estate industry leaders and economists.Bruce has contributed articles to many real estate magazines and newsletters. He has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, Nightline ABC, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Good Morning America, the Los Angeles Times, Fortune, Mortgage Banker Magazine, Money Magazine, Reuters, Associated Press, The Orange County Register, The Tribune, and numerous others.

Renowned for his ability to forecast long-term real estate market trends and timing, the release of The California Comeback report in 1997 gained him much notoriety and its accuracy of the extensive report led many California investors to financial freedom. His January 2006 release, The California Crash, was an in-depth look into the California market correction and the statistics behind Bruce’s predictions. In his upcoming February 2010 report, Tip of the Iceberg, Bruce will discuss government intervention and how it affects real estate professionals, potential dangers of current market manipulation, investment strategies by market price range, and micro insights into some of California most important markets.

 

Michelle Lenahan

Director of Customer Service & Training

ForeclosureRadar.com

After graduating from U.C. Berkeley, Michelle began her career as property manager for a large real estate firm in San Francisco. She grew into an escrow assistant position and then entered wholesale lending where she worked as an account executive for National City. Michelle spent the next 13 years in the title industry becoming a leading sales representative for Fidelity National Title, earning acclaim as a top producing sales representative and affiliate of the year for her local realtor association. With a passion to understand and teach real estate related issues to others, Michelle’s role with the company suits her perfectly. Michelle has become integral to ForeclosureRadar in teaching agents, investors and homeowners to understand the foreclosure market and to create the best opportunities for themselves.
 

Memphis Investment Properties

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Reedy

Founder of Memphis Investment Properties, is a veteran Realtor with more than 30 years experience in real estate investing and property management. 

 

  

Craig Jennings

also a seasoned real estate investor, started the Memphis franchise of HomeVestors.

 

 

In 2009, the two joined forces to form one of the most formidable real estate investing firms in the Mid-South. The company specializes in helping private investors locate the best undervalued residential real estate optimizing investor’s opportunities for high returns on investment. Memphis Investment Properties currently owns more than 500 residential properties in the Mid-South area and manages more than 850 properties for investor across the country. In February, Memphis was ranked the No. 1 in the Top 10 Cities for Real Estate Steals by U.S. News and World Reports. With the Memphis real estate market one of the hottest in the country, due to high demand and low property prices, Memphis Investment Properties is having a banner year. The partners are currently launching a new accelerated financing program that results in quicker mortgage payoff, so investment property pays for itself in 5 years and investors enjoy a steady income stream. The partners have been featured numerous times in publications in the Mid-South, as well as national trade publications.

 

 

Lori Greymont 

Founder and COO

Summit Assets Group 

 

Summit Assets Group wholesales bulk REO lists, seasoned land contracts, and offers comprehensive training, mentoring, and support for the bulk REO investor.

 

An independently operated off-shoot of Summit Solutions Team Corp., Summit Assets Group wholesales small to mid-sized bulk REO lists, provides investor education, and manages land contract sales and services.

 

Adiel Gorel

President & CEO

ICG Real Estate Investments

Founder and CEO of International Capital Group (ICG), a Marin County, CA-based real estate investment company that assists investors in purchasing properties and also provides guidance on lending and property management solutions. Adiel Gorel frequently lectures here in the U.S. and abroad on real estate investing strategy, and have even published articles and books on the subject, including “Remote-Controlled Real Estate Riches—The Busy Person’s Guide to Real Estate Investing”.

 

Eric Wikstrom, CPA, CFP®

Founder

Integrated Wealth Strategies, LLC

The mission of Integrated Wealth Strategies, LLC is to help clients understand the best methods to build, maintain and enjoy their wealth. And frankly, the best methods and processes to build and maintain wealth today are very different from what they’ve been over the past 20-30 years.

For example, examining and understanding “non-traditional” asset classes like tax liens, promissory notes and private placement investments are critical to building an investment portfolio that isn’t closely correlated to stock market type investments.

Professional Panelists

JEFFREY B. HARE

Attorney

www.JefferyHare.com

 

Jeffrey B. Hare, Attorney at Law, provides client focused outcome-oriented legal services to his clients.
Specializing in real estate and land use law, Jeffrey combines legal expertise with practical experience as a real estate investor and entrepreneur to help his clients develop a clear and comprehensive strategy designed for a successful outcome. 

Richard Smith

Enrolled Agent

Richard Smith & Associates

 

 

Richard Smith, who is an Enrolled Agent and licensed by the IRS, and his team have prepared taxes for individuals and corporations for more than 30 years.

Richard is an active real estate investor who has more than 100 houses in his portfolio plus a large multi-family building.

Anthony F. Earle

Attorney

www.earlelaw.com

 

Anthony F. Earle is an attorney licensed to practice law in all California state trial and appellate courts, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Ninth Circuits, federal trail courts in the Northern District of California and the United States Tax Court.

He has served as judge pro tempore for the Santa Clara Superior Court and is also a licensed Real Estate Broker.

TOM WILSON

Owner/Investor

Wilson Properties

 

Tom Wilson has bought and sold more than 1300 units, mostly in DFW, including three condo conversion projects, two syndications and seven multi-family properties.
Currently, he is focusing on a program of reselling rehabbed and leased DFW foreclosures to investors. He is active in real estate investment clubs and provides mentoring to new investors.