#RealEstateClub/AssociationSpotlight: MAREIA, Alan Chantker

2021-12-13

Alan Chantker is the President of Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Investors Association (MAREIA). He and his Co-President Beth Marsie-Hazen have been leading this club for 20 years. Their model mainly focuses on providing 3Es – Education, Encouragement, and Ethics. Alan and the team aim to help people create harmonious relationships you can’t develop by just sitting at home and going all online. In this episode, Alan talks about MAREIA – the association he has co-founded with now MAREIA’s Vice President Beth. Here, he discusses how beneficial it is for people to go out and make connections in person, and debunks ...

Alan Chantker is the President of Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Investors Association (MAREIA). He and his Co-President Beth Marsie-Hazen have been leading this club for 20 years. Their model mainly focuses on providing 3Es – Education, Encouragement, and Ethics. Alan and the team aim to help people create harmonious relationships you can’t develop by just sitting at home and going all online.

In this episode, Alan talks about MAREIA – the association he has co-founded with now MAREIA’s Vice President Beth. Here, he discusses how beneficial it is for people to go out and make connections in person, and debunks myths about REIAs creating more space for competition in relation to its members.

What you’ll learn in just 20 minutes from today’s episode:

Why it is more effective in terms of growth in real estate to go out there and meet people real time
The power proper guidance brings to a passionate entrepreneur
Understand why REIAs aren’t places of competition

Resources:

Website: https://www.mareia.com/default.aspx

Topics Covered:

01:09 – MAREIA celebrates its 20th year with its 300 members

02:45 – Diversified MAREIA: Talking about the good mix of its members

04:51 – Debunking the do-it-at-home-and-online myth: Getting out there to make real connections with the world

07:53 – Discussing cases of people thinking REIAs only create more competition and explaining why that’s untruthful

10:05 – Alan shares a story of someone who became successful after engaging in a rehab with Beth

12:36 – Adjusting to this pandemic’s circumstances

15:53 – Talking about the groups MAREIA has and their practices on meetings

18:11 – Connect with MAREIA to learn more

Key Takeaways:

“People think they can do it on their own.” – Alan Chantker

“A lot of people nowadays – unfortunately, I call them the youngsters – think that you can just sit at home because you can order anything online. They think you can do your wholesaling online. While I know that there are some people who do virtual wholesaling or virtual real estate, I really think that you can only do that if you’ve gotten your feet wet with being out in the real world, talking to real sellers and buyers and everybody else. As human beings, we’re called social animals. We do need to get out there.” – Alan Chantker

“Unless you’re surrounded by a lot of positive people telling you ‘go ahead and do the real estate’ which is really rare, it’s hard on a day-to-day basis to keep it up because it does take a while to get the business off the ground. Having that encouragement in meetings is very important to keep your spirits up.” – Alan Chantker

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