FOCUS: One practical real estate investing skill each week
Most investors do not need more random information. They need help with the next skill, question, or decision sitting in front of them.
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One topic. One hour. Every Wednesday.
FOCUS runs from 6 to 7 PM at the FIRE Center.
Each session covers a practical real estate investing skill. Topics have included finding off-market deals, dirty title and probate, seller financing, raising private money, becoming the lender, non-performing notes, 1031 exchanges, options, BRRR in California, ADUs, flipping mobile homes, residential assisted living, wholesaling in a shifting market, AI for investors, and much more.
The format depends on what makes the subject easiest to understand.
A Wednesday may include a presentation, an interview, a live deal review, a role-play, or a Q&A night. Some sessions have one presenter. Others have two or three people teaching, interviewing, or working through examples together.
Upcoming topics and presenters are listed on the events page.
Captains who work in different parts of real estate
FOCUS is led by the FIRE Center Captains:
The FIRE Center also brings in occasional guest speakers with experience in specific parts of real estate investing.
Past FOCUS guests have included:
John Schaub, National Best Selling Author, described the meeting this way:
“There are a lot of investment groups that are for profit, they bring in speakers that sell things for $10,000, and they're not really there just to help. This meeting, people get help when they come. It's worth its weight in gold.”
The titles tell you what the hour is for
FOCUS stays close to the problems real estate investors run into while finding, analyzing, funding, protecting, and operating deals.
Sessions have covered mobile home exit strategies, finding hidden money in dirty title, probate investing, the fastest way to find a deal, live deal reviews, running comps, automating your business, lessons from investors with decades in the trenches, and much more.
The list below mixes recent sessions with guest speaker nights from the past two years. Each entry shows the session title, presenter or presenters, and month.
The format changes because the work changes.
A seller conversation is easier to understand through role-play. A deal may need numbers on a board. A complicated topic may work better as an interview or a live set of questions.
Go back to the topic when you need it
FIRE Starter members can join FOCUS live on Zoom and access more than 130 session recordings going back to 2023.
The recordings are sorted into eight shelves:
The shelves make it easier to find a recording tied to the question you are working through.
Visit membership for membership details.
First-time guests attend FOCUS in person. Zoom access and the recording library are for FIRE Starter members.
Learn after watching the deals and meeting the room
The FIRE Center is at 1660 Chicago Ave STE M2, Riverside, CA 92507.
Doors open at 3:45 PM.
The Deal Room runs from 4 to 5 PM. Power Hour follows from 5 to 6 PM with dinner and networking. FOCUS runs from 6 to 7 PM.
Come for one or stay for all three.
Flippers. Landlords. Wholesalers. Brand-new investors. Operators with rental portfolios. Agents who decided to buy instead of list.
What people ask before their first FOCUS
You do not need to understand every term before coming. Listen for the parts connected to your experience and ask questions when something is unclear.
FOCUS is led by the FIRE Center Captains. Rich Rice teaches when the topic calls for it, and occasional guest speakers lead sessions in their areas of experience.
No. The format may be a presentation, interview, deal review, role-play, or Q&A. Some sessions have one presenter, while others have two or three.
No. First-time guests attend in person. FIRE Starter members can join FOCUS live on Zoom and access the recording library.
Upcoming FOCUS topics and presenter information are listed on the events page.
Stay for the other two hours.
“If you are new to real estate investing or seasoned investor, realtor, contractor etc this is the club for you.”
“FIRE Center is the premier Real Estate Investment Community!”
Learn the skill tied to the deal in front of you
Your first Wednesday is free. No card on file, no signup fee.
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