{"id":231,"date":"2007-12-07T19:12:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T00:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/2007\/12\/07\/insight-articles-from-colorado-springs-seminar\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T00:14:16","slug":"insight-articles-from-colorado-springs-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Insight Articles from Colorado Springs Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/cos-seminar13.jpg\" title=\"COS Seminar\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/cos-seminar13.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"COS Seminar\" \/><\/a>On Wed, Dec 5, I completed what I considered to be the inaugural meeting of &#8220;The Investors Roundtable&#8221; of Colorado Springs.  It was an all-new endeavor working with new acquaintances.  But everyone was willing to &#8220;give it a shot&#8221; and I certainly did my best to &#8220;deliver the goods&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose was to kick off The Investors Roundtable group with an enticing but relevant seminar which was entitled <strong>&#8220;Building a Real Estate Investment Portfolio in a Down Market&#8221;<\/strong> that was focused on Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;promise&#8221;that was going to be delivered was the following:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The Art &amp;      Science of Portfolio-Building <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">5 Strategies for      building a real estate portfolio if you have limited time, expertise,      cash, or credit <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Why the best      time to build a real estate portfolio is in a slower market and economic      cycle <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">What happens to      assets, wealth, and equity created and lost during up-markets and      up-cycles <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The types of      people who should <strong>absolutely avoid and should never <\/strong>invest in real      estate <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The types of      people who can never stop doing real estate deals and the types of people      who can stop within 5 years. <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The single      crucial x-factor every investor must decide BEFORE they buy their first      investment <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The 5 Deadly      Sins of Real Estate Investing that destroy portfolios and investment      careers <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The 3 Investment      Criteria professional investors use that amateurs do not <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The &#8220;true      returns on investment&#8221; professional investors rarely reveal to the      general public<o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The 4 Rules on      the Mindset of Money amateur investors never learn until it&#8217;s too late <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The 3      Unavoidable Events that will occur in the real estate market between now      and 2010 <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The 6      opportunities and differences between 1st-tier and 2nd-tier cities <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The Current      Market Velocity of Colorado Springs <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">5 Reasons Why      Colorado Springs is a better market to invest in than Denver <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The 4 Factors      &#8220;outside investors&#8221; see in Colorado Springs that &#8220;native      investors&#8221; routinely ignore <o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The pros and      cons of investing with Investment Teams vs. investing alone<o><\/o><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, it was quite ambitious for a 3-hour evening seminar on a cold December night.  Not only that, it was only $25 per ticket.  What a steal.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, my small seminars are fairly organic.  In other words, I have a loose outline of what I will cover, but I rely on flip-charts and have the students take notes.  After all, what could one expect for $25?<\/p>\n<p>However, I changed my mind and prepared a PowerPoint presentation instead.  The room I was presenting in had a ceiling projector to a projection screen.  I figured I would simply take advantage of it by connecting my PC Notebook to the system and present off of a pre-prepared PowerPoint Presentation.<\/p>\n<p>What I thought would be an easy task turned out to be incredibly time-consuming one.  It has been a few years since I have prepared a PowerPoint presentation.  And it was my first time to create one that would require 3+ hours to cover.<\/p>\n<p>Constructing, writing, and organizing that PowerPoint presentation was a multi-day project with several hours per day.  Holy smokes, I thought it would not come to an end with the endless ideas, revisions, and reorganizations.  It felt as challenging as writing a booklet.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I did finish writing the presentation and I did present it in my typically unconventional and hard-hitting style.  Being in a new environment, I did exercise a bit more restraint than I normally do in Columbus.  \ud83d\ude42 However, I did not want to &#8220;sanitize&#8221; it to the point I felt robotic or that my audience did not know where I stood on issues.<\/p>\n<p>I am setting all of you up because what came out AFTER the seminar was very enlightening to me as a speaker and presenter.  Bottom line, my &#8220;core audience&#8221; liked the presentation and there were other parts that left a less than desirable impression.<\/p>\n<p>I will be writing a few &#8220;insight articles&#8221; to clarify my positions on certain subjects.  It might make for some juicy reading.  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