Mike Butler Headlines January Main Meeting

Mike Butler is a longtime Louisville investor and national speaker — as well as a KREIA Past President and Ed Melton Award recipient. And he's our featured speaker at our January main meeting. REGISTER NOW!

Mike got started investing back in the 1980s while working full-time as an undercover police detective.

He began buying properties with little money down, using creative strategies. And he teaches his investing students how to do that even today. He's known for saying, "I have never gone to the bank to buy an investment property."

Over the years Mike's rental portfolio grew and grew, and he developed systems and time-saving strategies that helped him manage his portfolio in very little time — and increase his profits. He wrote a book about it: "Landlording on Autopilot," which became a best-seller. 

At KREIA's January 23rd meeting, Mike is going to share some of his systems with us — and answer your questions.

And if we're lucky, he'll also share some of his many stories from being a "landlord in the trenches." 

John Mays' December President's Message

KREIA President John Mays reminds us of an online workshop on Private Lending that's FREE for KREIA members coming up on Saturday, Dec. 14. It's going to teach you how to find and work with private lenders -- low-stress and versatile funding to help you flip houses and purchase and rehab rental properties. Not a member? This online workshop is still a bargain for you at only $97! (But if you join KREIA by Dec. 14th, it'll be free for you too!)

John also previews more KREIA events, including January's first main meeting of 2025, featuring Mike Butler, author of "Landlording on Autopilot."

Q&A With Ed Gibson: Longtime Investor Pays It Forward

"KREIA is the only organization I know of – and I've been around the world eight times – and I have never, in my life, seen a group of people work so hard to try to make you a millionaire. I’m not kidding you."

Ed Gibson was speaking from experience here, and he believes in paying it forward!

Ed is a longtime KREIA member, a past board member, a past Lunch & Learn host, and a patent-holding engineer. He’s married and has four children and six grandchildren.

He is also one of KREIA's biggest cheerleaders, and he credits his investing success to our group. He’s not a typical real estate investor – he divides his energies between the stock market and real estate, and he makes a great case for why he doesn't like to put all his eggs in one basket.

His take on the synergy of two-prong investing is fascinating, and we sat down with him a couple of months ago to pick his brain – coming away with thousands of words of pure gold.

There wasn't room to fit the full interview in print and, trust us, you’ll want to read the whole thing. In the full transcript Ed talks about how he rehabs houses, he shares his investing strategy, gives specific recommendations, gives shoutouts to his many mentors, and offers solid advice.

If you're an active KREIA member currently logged into your account, you can read the full interview here.

Help the Children: Help the Home of the Innocents

The Home of the Innocents is a Louisville organization that takes care of abused, neglected, and medically fragile children. Even though we presented our annual check to the Home at our Holiday Party, the need for our assistance continues. Please make a much-needed gift to the Home through our fundraising page. (It's tax-deductible for you!) Or by purchasing something the children need that's mentioned on their Wish List.