Welcome to NTAHP (Housing Providers), the trade association of independent real estate investors and landlords in North Texas. Our mission is to promote and support the success of our members, and maintain the high professional standards of our industry, through leadership, networking, information and education.
    Independent investors and landlords serve a vital role in the community. They rejuvenate blighted neighborhoods, add to the tax base, and provide employment for a wide range of workers, contractors and suppliers. But most importantly, they provide the affordable housing which enables so many working Americans to live with dignity, comfort and security. So, for this important segment of our society, as well as others, they are the essential Housing Providers.

Next General Meeting -- Thursday, April 16     Profiting from the "Crisis" : Now is the Time - This is the Opportunity "Subprime Crisis"... "Mortgage Meltdown"...      You've heard it all. And you know it's only going to get worse. But there is a silver lining. It's the opportunity for real estate investors to turn the "Crisis" into gold - by tapping into the rapidly expanding market of seller financing.       Seller financing is filling the void created by the mortgage freeze. Unable to find buyers who can qualify under the current conditions, sellers are increasingly turning to carrying the loans themselves.   Creating Good Notes - that perform - and that resell.     Seller financing provides the opportunity to sell your properties today - to quality buyers - at full retail - and more quickly -- for a substantial and steady income stream. But, to avoid the same pitfalls that brought down many lending institutions, the investor must have a methodical approach to evaluate the buyer and construct the loan. With due diligence, good judgment, and some common sense, you can become very successful with seller financing. And the timing couldn't be better. Selling, Buying and Brokering.     Two years ago, seller financing accounted for only about 1 in every 400 real estate transactions. Today, it accounts for 1 in every 50 transactions. And some experts predict that it will soon be one in every ten. This trend is creating a huge and growing inventory of seller-financed notes which are ripe for investor picking.       Whether you create notes for your own properties, invest in existing notes, or broker notes to others, you can become a "note pro" and pocket big profits from all types of note transactions. Dealing in notes also offers flexibility and convenience. Set your own pace; work from home; earn commissions without spending any of your own money!    Cashing in on Delinquent Loans and REO's.     Working in the notes arena can also open other very profitable opportunities - including participation in the workouts of the banks' non-performing notes and REO properties.          For all these aspects of notes transactions, our Featured Speaker, Eddie Speed, is one of the (if not the) best experts in the country to inform you on the true realities of the business. Eddie's lively and innovative presentation will reveal how, as a savvy investor, you can actually thrive from the growing "mortgage implosion". He will cover how the note business works, and how you, as a real estate investor, can capitalize on the phenomenal growth in seller financing. You can choose to shift gears into a new career in the note market - or just supplement your current business - with the lucrative opportunities waiting for you in the seller financing arena.   >  Tap into the mortgage meltdown's silver lining... and turn it into gold.  >  As more and more sellers turn to carrying the loans for their buyers...those notes become available for sale... and for you to capture big profits!  >  Real estate investors have a big advantage - because it requires little additional knowledge for you to deal in notes.  >  By creating real estate notes, investing in them, or simply brokering, investors can make substantial money with minimal expense.    Eddie Speed is the president of Colonial Funding Group, LLC, the founder of NoteSchool™, and  the  author of Streetwise Seller Financing.  He is a nationally recognized expert in the note industry both in seller-financing and buying non-performing bank loans.  Having purchased more than 30,000 notes totaling more than a half a billion dollars in the past 25 years - an industry record, he has seen virtually every scenario imaginable. As the recipient of the 2006 Industry Achievement Award, Eddie is in great demand as an acclaimed speaker, mentor, and instructor. His expert training has propelled some of the industry's most successful brokers to phenomenal levels of career achievements. .   Don't miss Eddie's powerful insights and skilled techniques for "Profiting from the "Crisis"".  Housing Providers Monthly General Meeting Thursday, April 16     Crowne Plaza Hotel, LBJ Freeway (635) at Coit Road, Dallas. (located directly behind the La Quinta Inn, which faces onto the freeway, just west of this intersection)   Members  -  No Charge Non-Members Welcome  -  $20 Beverages, light hors d'oeuvres and desserts provided. Meeting Agenda 6:30 pm  -  7:15 pm Meet and share ideas and resources with hundreds of North Texas investors, landlords and real estate professionals. Also connect with and learn about the offerings of a valuable cross-section of the commercial and professional vendors who serve and support the investors and landlords in this region. 7:15 pm  -  9:00 pm Enjoy the lively and informative presentation by our Featured Speaker - Mr. Eddie Speed.   Please help spread the word - invite a friend. Come Connect.

October General Meeting
Thursday, October 16, 2008
featured

The Real Estate Meltdown and
"The Economic Crisis" -
Where They Came From and
Where They Are Going !

presented by
Dr. Ravi Batra,
Professor of Economics, SMU

and internationally known bestselling author of
" The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution
Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos "
and  " Greenspan's Fraud "

Dr. Ravi Batra, Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, is the author of five international best sellers. He served as Chairperson of the SMU Economics Department from 1977 to 1980. In October 1978, due to dozens of publications in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, among others, Dr. Batra was ranked third in a group of "superstar economists," selected from all the American and Canadian universities by an article in the respected journal of Economic Enquiry. In 1990, the Prime Minister of Italy awarded Dr. Batra a Medal of the Italian Senate for writing a book which correctly predicted the downfall of Soviet communism, fifteen years before it happened.

Dr. Batra has been profiled and quoted in major newspapers and magazines, including the New YorkTimes, Washington Post, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, the U.S. News and World Report, and appeared on all major news networks, including CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, CNBC, among others. Batra's latest book is "The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos". 

Some Comments on Ravi Batra's Work:

" The forecasting record of this widely respected Southern Methodist University economist has won glowing praise from many pragmatic investment masters." 
Tom Peters, Chicago Tribune
" Ravi Batra has made an outstanding reputation in the United States as an international economic theorists in the best Western tradition." 
Leonard Silk, New York Times 
    " Dr. Batra writes about his subject as clearly as if he were telling bedtime stories." 
 Christopher Lehmann Haupt, New York Times
  " The good professor has a formidable academic reputation and, from what I know, his forecasting record is impressive."
Barton Biggs, Morgan Stanley
  " Batra [is] a scholar who has earned a considerable reputation as an expert on trade." 
Albert Crenshaw,Washington Post
  " His predictions in the early 1980s of low inflation, falling oil prices and a wave of mergers-mocked for years-have proved close to the mark."
Thomas C. Hayes, New York Times
  " Ravi Batra was used to making tumultuous global forecasts and having nobody listen - then predictions started to come true." 
Chip Brown, Associated Press
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 Housing Providers
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   Dallas, Texas 75225
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