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MAREI & REI Blackbook Present the AI Automated Investor Challenge
Think you own a real estate business?
If it still requires you to personally manage every moving part from finding the deals to managing the portfolio, you don’t own a business.
You own a very stressful job—and you probably know it.
Whether you’re actively hunting for your next deal or already own a portfolio, the problem is the same: too many investors have built businesses that depend on them to keep everything moving.
Leads need follow-up. Sellers need responses. Appointments need booking. Residents need managing. Communications need handling.
And when you stop doing it?
Everything slows down—or stops.
That’s why you need to stop puttering around with AI, and put it to work running a Real Estate Operating System designed to automate a lot of those day to day tasks, and keep your business working even when you’re not.
This online workshop with REIBlackbook founder Damon Remy isn’t about showing you what AI can do for you.
It’s about putting AI to work, right in real time, where it can make a measurable difference in your real estate business right now.
Join Damon One Day Online to Learn How To:
- Find motivated sellers before your competition does using AI and predictive data to identify opportunities sooner.
- Respond to every lead in seconds with a 24/7 automated follow-up engine that keeps prospects engaged and books appointments while you sleep.
- Take the daily workload out of owning properties by automating management, communication, and follow-up that’s eating up your time.
- Turn scattered tasks into a repeatable system so your business doesn’t depend on you remembering, chasing, and personally handling everything.
- Build your complete Real Estate Operating System with a blueprint for moving from self-employed chaos toward a business that produces consistent cash flow without demanding your constant attention.
The goal?
Stop being the person who has to keep every plate spinning.
Start building a real estate business that has the systems to keep moving without you.
The workshop will be recorded and all registrants will receive the recording, so register even if you can’t attend live.
Oh, and it’s FREE.
By the way, REIBlackbook will offer you the chance to upgrade to a VIP experience for FREE (but you will have to enter a credit card) once you sign up. DO IT. It gets you a 30 day free subscription to REIBlackbook, which is what lets you build your own systems alongside Damon at the workshop.
Do you HAVE to upgrade to participate? No.
But we recommend that you do.
New Missouri Wholesaling Law Forum: Aug 26 | MAREI
New Missouri Wholesaling & Investor Rules Take Effect August 28 — Here's a Forum That Explains What Changes
Missouri is changing the rules for wholesalers and direct-to-seller real estate investors, and the changes take effect August 28. If you assign contracts, buy houses directly from sellers, or run novation and assignment deals anywhere in Missouri, the new disclosure and transparency requirements will affect how you write your contracts, what you’re required to tell a seller, and what a compliant closing looks like.
On Wednesday, August 26, the KC Real Estate Investor Forum brings the legal, legislative, and title perspectives into one room — two days before the rules take effect. It’s hosted by SBD Housing Solutions in Blue Springs, and MAREI (Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors) is promoting and recording it for members across the metro.
The concept: most of what investors are hearing about these changes is coming secondhand — from group threads and podcasts. This forum puts you in front of the people who actually shaped, will enforce, and have to process these rules at closing, so you can get answers instead of opinions.
The panel
Julie Anderson — Chief Executive Attorney, Anderson & Associates. A Kansas City real estate attorney with deep experience advising investors and property operators. She’ll give the practical legal overview: compliance considerations, contracts, and disclosures to understand before the rules take effect.
Dr. Jon Patterson — Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives. Dr. Patterson has been closely involved in advancing consumer-protection legislation in Missouri. He’ll share the legislative perspective behind the new laws, what enforcement could mean for operators, and where future regulation may be headed.
Marty Albertson — Division President, Stewart Title. With more than 42 years of title and escrow experience overseeing Stewart Title operations across Missouri and Kansas, Marty will explain how the new requirements are likely to be carried out at the title level and how they could affect the closing process.
The forum is moderated by Marck de Lautour, CEO of SBD Housing Solutions.
What the conversation will cover
- The new disclosure and transparency requirements taking effect August 28
- Specific changes wholesalers and investors should make to contracts and disclosures
- What operators can learn from recent legal action in Kansas
- What future enforcement and regulation could realistically look like
- Practical steps to protect your business before the deadline
- A live Q&A with all three panelist
Event details
- Date & time: Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 5:00–7:00 PM Central
- Venue: 1504 NW Mock Ave, Blue Springs, MO 64015
- Refreshments: Hors d’oeuvres and beverages sponsored by Stewart Title
- Cost: Free to attend. Seating is limited and registration is required.
- Can’t make it in person? MAREI is recording the forum. We will share it with Members via the Library.
MAREI & GetFundable Present: Business Line of Credit for Real Estate Investors – Get Approved for $100K–$1M with Merrill Chandler
No Cash, No Credit . . . there are Still Deals
A business line of credit for real estate investors shouldn’t require your home equity, your tax returns, or a flawless credit score. On Saturday, August 29, Merrill Chandler — America’s leading funding expert — teaches the exact FICO®-validated system behind $300M+ in client approvals, live and in person in Overland Park. One day. Five steps. Up to $100K–$1M in unsecured, no-doc business credit lines and loans in 120 days or less.
You want capital to grow — here's the smarter path
You’re ready to scale, but the usual doors keep closing:
- No home equity for a HELOC.
- Good credit, and the bank still says no — and nobody will tell you why.
- Tired of the points and high rates hard-money and private lenders charge.
There’s a better way, and it has almost nothing to do with your “score.” It’s about how you position and leverage your personal and business borrower profiles so top-tier banks say yes. It’s the same FICO-validated system behind more than $300 million in client approvals — and Merrill is working with MAREI all month to get our members funded.
What you'll walk away with
- A clear, repeatable system for unsecured business credit lines — no tax returns, no collateral, no perfect-credit requirement.
- The five steps to position your borrower profile for Prime +1% approvals.
- A realistic path to $100K–$1M in funding you can put to work on your next deal — in 120 days or less.
Event details
- What: Get Fundable Business Line Approval Intensive with Merrill Chandler
- When: Saturday, August 29, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Where: Keller Williams Overland Park Office, 11005 Metcalf, Overland Park, KS 66210
- Seats: Limited to the first 50 people
Reserve your seat
Only 50 seats are available, and this is a live, one-day class built to get you funded.
Jump Start Your Education with Merrill
Follow the path:
- Grab the free guide. The 8 Fatal Funding Landmines silently destroying your approvals — in your inbox in 60 seconds.
- Meet him live. Join the MAREI Monthly Meeting on August 11.
- Live Q & A at WinVestors on August 12th.
- Bring your questions. Free virtual Q&As every Tuesday in August — see the calendar.
- Go all in. Register for the August 29 Intensive — first 50 people only.
MAREI Meeting: Estate & Business Planning: Protect What You’ve Built
Estate Planning for Real Estate Investors & Small Business Owners
Estate planning for real estate investors isn’t just about a will — it’s about making sure the portfolio, the business, and the income you’ve worked so hard to build are protected and ready to pass on to the people you love. This past year, a few losses within our own MAREI family reminded us all how much that matters — and how important it is to be sure that after you set the plan up and pay the experts, every step you were advised to take actually got done.
Members who’ve joined us for meetings like this have called it one of the most important nights they’ve ever spent with MAREI. This is one you’ll be glad you came to.
The Line Up
After Trade Show, Relationship Building and Haves and Wants
We’ll open with a special foreword from investor Michelle Winberry — a few honest words, from her own experience, on why none of us can afford to put this off.
Then estate & business planning attorney Rebecca Auriemma (Anderson & Associates) walks through what a complete plan really looks like for real estate investors and small business owners — trusts and how they work, the documents every owner needs, and the step so many investors miss: making sure the LLCs that hold your properties are actually tied into your plan. A trust only protects what’s truly inside it, and Rebecca will show you how to know if yours is.
CPA Dan Marlow (Valor Business & Tax Service) then covers the tax side — step-up in basis, what’s changing in 2026, and the records that make things easy on your family instead of a headache.
We’ll close with live Q&A, so bring your questions.
Note New Location at the Holiday Inn off of 87th Street
Cost: FREE for MAREI members and first-time guests. Not a member yet? This is the perfect night to join — or pay the $35 guest fee at the door. Either way, come see us.