Our Master Moderator will be  Vena Jones-Cox (a.k.a. the Real Estate Goddess) she is a  nationally-respected wholesaling expert who’s done over 1,000 deals in hot markets and cold, and taught thousands of other new wholesalers and new investors how to become successful and get past the painful, frustrating“I really want this, but I don’t know what to do and I’m not making any money” stage of beginnerhood.

If you have met Vena, you already KNOW she loves what she does. She is a self-admitted  real estate geek who is  interested in just about every aspect of real estate investing, finds it all fascinating, and is a sort of walking encyclopedia of techniques, trivia, and both useful and useless information about real estate, and yes, she is a true, rabid believer in the idea that real estate investing is the best way to achieve financial independence

If that doesn’t tell you enough about her, here are a few bullet points:

• She does all of her investing in the Greater Cincinnati area, which includes Northern Kentucky.

• she bought her first rental property in 1989 and  still owns it.
• Since then, she has bought and sold, or continues to manage, somewhere in excess of, oh, I don’t know, 700 deals. People who can quote the exact number crack her up.
• Yes, she wholesales properties. A lot of them. At the moment, an average of 1 every 9.125 days
• Yes, she also lease/option, rent, and land contract properties. At the moment, she acquires about 5 new “keepers” a year.
• Yes, she buys properties using owner financing, private financing, buying subject to, and in lots of other creative ways.
• She has been the president of the Real Estate Investors Association of Greater Cincinnati, the Ohio Real Estate Investors Association, and the National Real Estate Investors Association.
• Real estate investing is only her vocation; her avocation is teaching other people about real estate investing.
• The only thing she loves more than teaching real estate to a crowd of people is helping ONE person do a deal, or build their business to the next level, or solve a real estate problem.
• She is a licensed real estate broker in the state of Ohio, but never lists properties that aren’t my own or works directly with buyers
• Since 1998, she has hosted a Public Radio show called “Real Life Real Estate Investing”. You can listen to it on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. eastern at 89.9 FM in the Cincinnati area. If you’re not in the Cincinnati area on Wednesdays at 5, you can listen to it streaming at www.WMKVfm.org. You can also download prior shows as podcasts here

So you NEED to be at the September meeting to see Vena do what she does best- get you the best information form our panelists on how they would become millionaires all over again in two years with only the knowledge they have gained!

Meet our Speaker Panel!

Dave Corsi President of Metro Real Estate Investors Association (MREIA) in NJ
- Investing 38 years
- Special Interests: President of the Metro New Jersey Real Estate Investors Association, MLO and realtor licenses; ran for Congress twice, hosted 2 long-running radio shows, and teaches classes in NJ and NY
- Loves: rentals and rehabs to keep or flip, with special focus on Dodd-Frank issues




Loyd "Sam" Warf

My background began as a general contractor building custom homes in the late 80's and in 2000 I broke my back and was forced to make a career change. I had owned a few rental properties and transitioned into investing mostly in real estate full time, replacing my income within 13 months with positive Cashflow from the rental that we had acquired with NO MONEY out of our pocket . I have been involved in over 300 real estate transactions, and at present own we have over 90 units mainly single family homes, duplexes, small apartments and trailer parks.  Specializing in creative deal structure and solving real estate problems. And reducing taxes. 

Gregg Branham President of Upstate Carolina Real Estate Investors Association

Gregg has been a member of UCREIA since 2002, serving in numerous volunteer roles. Gregg is an active real estate investor and licensed broker with nearly 20 years of experience buying, selling, renting, rehabbing and financing residential real estate. Gregg is the founding principal of Red Canoe Properties, LLC which he started in 2003. He was CEO/Team Leader of Keller Williams Realty, Greenville Central Partners, where he was responsible for office management, recruiting, interviewing, hiring and training of staff and agents from 2014 to 2017. He doubled the size of the office to become the largest real estate office in upstate South Carolina at the time, supporting nearly 250 agents in their real estate business. Prior to going into real estate full-time, he was a professional environmental & civil consulting engineer for over 20 years. He obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Clemson University and the University of South Carolina, respectively. Gregg lives in Easley with his wife and their son and daughter, and enjoys music, traveling and his wife’s cooking when not investing.