Member Benefits
AZREIA MEMBER BENEFITS ARE WORTH MORE TO YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE
AZREIA is the only REIA in Arizona that is a certified official chapter of the National Real Estate Investors Association. This means all of our members have access to exclusive national discounts with businesses that will help your and your investing, no matter your experience or strategy. On top of these national discounts, AZREIA members have access to more education and networking opportunities than any other real estate investing group in the state.
Our goal is to bring AZREIA members the most value to their membership as we possibly can. We have served over 10,000 real estate investors across the state in our 20 years of business and are continually adding more and more to membership offerings. Take some time to explore these tabs to see how AZREIA membership can serve you and support your real estate investing business.
If you would like to become an AZREIA member, click HERE to view our membership types. If you have any more questions, feel free to reach out to us at memberservices@azreia.org or call us at 480-990-7092.
Here are 10 reasons why you should become a member of AZREIA today! 👊
1. Exclusive National Discounts
As an AZREIA member, you gain access to the National REIA's exclusive national discount program, providing you with substantial savings on essential services and products. Whether you need discounts on office supplies, rental cars, insurance, or contractor services, the National REIA discount program offers you unparalleled value and support. These partnerships are designed to reduce your operational costs and enhance your real estate investment journey. Joining AZREIA means you can leverage these national discounts to maximize your profitability and streamline your business operations, giving you a competitive edge in the real estate market. Here are a few highlights:
The Home Depot: Members receive a 2% biannual rebate, 20% off interior & exterior paints & primers, volume pricing, access to an exclusive appliance & cabinet program, and much more!
Rent Perfect: Their Online Lease Agreement allows you to send your tenant(s) a customized lease agreement, electronically & securely. They offer the most accurate & thorough credit & background screening available. AZREIA members receive a discounted 95¢ set up fee.
Millenial Specialty Insurance: Millennial Specialty Insurance offers NREIA members multiple insurance products specifically designed for Investors and their tenants. Features include no underwriting or inspections, outstanding claims management service, very knowledgeable & courteous staff to handle your needs, and more.
Other notable partners include Constant Contact, foreclosure.com, REI Pro, Office Depot, Equity Trust, Avis Budget Group, BuildASign.com, CallFire, HammerZen, Local Market Monitor, OdorXit, Privy, and the list keeps going!
2. Free Monthly Meetings & Subgroups
These meetings are the heart and soul of AZREIA. Chapter meetings are held monthly in Phoenix and Tucson. Every month you have the opportunity to receive an in depth market update presentation, network with your fellow Investors and our Business Associates, and hear a guest speaker or panel of professionals. There is ample time set aside for networking. Many of our Business Associates elect to participate in a “trade show” like forum and host a table. This makes it easy for you to identify the business and experts you need to discuss your issues with and craft a solution.
The general session includes a guest speaker or panel of professionals that specialize in a specific area of real estate investing. There is no other organization in Arizona that brings individuals and organizations interested in investing in real estate together with the business community that supports them and this happens every month! Create your network and support group that will help make you successful!
3. Exclusive Online Community Platform
This innovative space is designed to keep you connected and engaged 24/7, offering special offers, events, and unparalleled networking opportunities. Participate in real-time discussions, access exclusive resources, and collaborate with fellow real estate investors from the comfort of your home or on the go. Our platform is tailored to enhance your membership experience by providing you with the tools and connections you need to succeed in the real estate industry. Stay informed, stay connected, and stay ahead with AZREIA's online community.
4. Education Classes & Seminars
We believe real estate investing education needs to be practical, local and affordable. Especially for new investors, education should be designed to support their desire to actually begin investing as soon as possible with a solid foundation of knowledge.
Increasing your knowledge and improving your skills will make you a more successful investor. Our monthly meetings contains an Educational Session, Market Trends and Outlook, Association Update, plus a Market Update for Fix & Flip and Rentals. We bring in national speakers who will host all day educational sessions on topics such as Notes, Foreclosure, Short Sales, lease Options, Subject – To and more.
5. Preferred Investor-Friendly Vendors
To assist our members with building their team and forming their network, AZREIA has a Business Associate membership for businesses that offer services and products that real estate investors need. Business Associates are invited to join AZREIA based on member referral and satisfactory completion of our evaluation process.
All of our Business Associates offer discounts or special offers to AZREIA members. A few dozen of our Business Associates are available to our members at the Phoenix monthly general meetings making it easy for our members to build their network.
AZREIA Business Associates represent many critical areas for the real estate investor including lending, title insurance, property insurance, legal, tax/accounting, construction, flooring, handymen, financial planning, property management, property wholesaling, property exchange, real estate services and more. We will continue to add more Business Associates in the future.
6. Monthly Educational Newsletter
Our highly educational newsletter, The AZREIA Advantage, is published monthly and contains tips on investing, topical articles from experts on subjects important to you such as title, property management, lending, legal, and updates on legislation affecting the real estate investor, and property postings. It may be viewed on this website and sent to your email inbox directly by joining our newsletter email list.
7. Weekly Informational Podcasts
The AZREIA Show podcast provides excellent education and insight from real estate investors all over the country. We interview national educators, professionals in the industry, local businesses, AZREIA subgroup leaders, and even AZREIA members! As a member you have the opportunity to be featured in a member spotlight episode for an interview on your recent success in the industry.
The podcast is another source of education for our members that allows them to learn from other people’s lessons and gather new insights and ideas so they can adapt to the current market and make their real estate investing business thrive.
8. Government Affairs Program and Legislative Efforts
Our desire is to understand issues or potential legislation that may affect real estate investing and communicate that information to our members. We plan for our collective voices to be heard on issue that affect our members. AZREIA has been recognized by National REIA on several occasions for the effectiveness of our lobbying efforts and overall Government Affairs Program.
VOTER VOICE
Every AZREIA member has access to the resources provided by the National REIA. One of these resources is VoterVoice. This program allows you to contact your legislators directly about proposed bills that could negatively affect your real estate investing business. Watch this video on how to use the VoterVoice feature provided to you by the National REIA.
9. FREE Membership to National REIA
National REIA is a non-profit trade association that's been serving the real estate investing industry since 1985. They are a federation made up of local associations or investment clubs throughout the United States and represent local investor associations, property owner associations, apartment associations, and landlord associations on a national scale. As a national organization, they represent the interests of approximately 40,000 members across the U.S. As such, they are the largest broad based organization dedicated to the individual investor.
The National REIA holds all of it's REIA chapters under a strict code of ethics and measures that are annually evaluated to ensure the integrity of the REIAs. To be an affiliated chapter of the National REIA means that AZREIA agrees to and is recognized for it's ethical business practices and focus on helping the individual investor succeed.
National REIA is THE source for the independent real estate investment industry. Their key focus areas are legislation, education, administration/governance, information/communication, membership, and funding. Through national legislative efforts, daily news reporting, education, publications, and more, they provide an increadible amount of resources to all members of their affiliated chapters.
10. Community Programs to Give Back
AZREIA’s Community Program is designed to involve the association, its members and the broader real estate investing community in worthwhile community programs or projects that delivers a valuable service to the community, creates a “sense of community” within the AZREIA, provides value to our members that participate and promotes AZREIA’s positive vision and mission. Stardust Building Supplies, Superstition Community Food Bank, and Habitat for Humanity are the ideal organizations for AZREIA to support and are worthy of your support as well.
Currently, AZREIA supports Stardust Building Supplies and the Superstition Community Food Bank. Historically, we have participated with Habitat for Humanity as an Adopt-A-Home Sponsor. We also hosted a COVID-19 updates page available to the public for landlords and renters to keep up-to-date on the eviction moratorium and financial assistance during the pandemic.
(A personal note from Michael Del Prete, Executive Director, AZREIA – I know you have personal charities that you support as do I. Personally, I never cross my personal charities with the professional ones. Giving back to your industry is important just as providing for personal causes is important. I trust you find our relationship and support of Habitat for Humanity, Apache Food Bank, and Stardust Building Supplies worthy of your participation with your charitable dollars or your valuable time. Thank you for your consideration.)
Maggie's Place
Each year in November we host an annual drive for the Maggie's Place charity. Maggie’s Place provides safe housing and a nurturing community for homeless pregnant women, empowering them to thrive throughout their lifetime. As hosuing providers, we understand the importance of providing safe and clean housing, so we partner with Maggie's Place each year to do a donation drive for the tenants of their housing so they can start a better life for themselves and their children and the charity has more money to go towards building more safe housing proerties for the people who need them.
Stardust Building Supplies
Many of our members support Stardust Building Supplies through utilization of their de-construction service. Rehabbers and contractors have an alternative to costly, time-consuming demolition with Stardust Deconstruction. Stardust provides free site demolition and removal to Phoenix-area rehabbers. When a rehabber is going into a new project he only needs to call Stardust Building Supplies. They will send out their own team of trained and skilled removal technicians, who will dismantle the project site and haul it away free of charge.
For example, let’s say you are going to install a new kitchen. All of the old kitchen’s fixtures need to be removed before the project can begin. Normally, they would be ripped out, tossed into dumpsters and carted off to local landfills. But, you call Stardust Building Supplies, this is what happens instead: their team arrives at the job-site and carefully removes all the old fixtures in the existing kitchen including countertops, cabinets, cabinet doors, hardware, flooring, stoves, ovens, refrigerators . . . they even take the kitchen sink.
The newly removed items are then brought to one of Stardust Building Supplies’ two locations where they are repaired, refurbished and cleaned. Then the items are placed for sale in the store, where they can be purchased at a fraction of the original cost and used by area landlords or homeowners in need. With Stardust Deconstruction services, you save valuable man-hours ripping out and removing a kitchen while hundreds of cubic feet of landfill space are conserved. Also, landlords and local residents in need of good-as-new, low-cost kitchen fixtures can now improve their homes for much less money.
Here is one member’s testimonial:
I almost can’t believe what Stardust did for us this morning! They showed up at our rehab house at 6:30 AM and almost did a complete tear out & removal! They stripped the kitchen & both bathrooms and took doors & light fixtures that we wanted to replace. Then they hauled it all away, and it cost us nothing. Then on top of that, they gave us a receipt for a tax deduction!
Also, the people that they sent were quick, efficient, and easy to get along with. What a great organization. Thanks for bringing them on board. We’ll be using them on ALL of our future rehabs. I figured you might appreciate some positive feedback. Thanks again for all you do.
-Michael A. Bernock