VIC Melbourne Catch Up - Moderate to Advanced Investors

Hi Team,
Just wondering if anyone else on here is struggling to find a decent group of people to catch up with on a semi-regular basis to discuss strategies and the property market in general.
Most of the catch ups I attend are filled with FHBs , tyre kickers or sharks trying to get you to re-finance or use their buyer's advocacy.
I'm looking for a small group of investors that are already in the game and have stories to share about the ways they've grown their wealth. If anyone else is interested, drop me a line and I'll coordinate a catch up one night after work.
Cheers.

 

Have you attended one of the two monthly meetings organised here every month in Melbourne? There's a meeting next week:

VIC - Melbourne (westside) meetup - Thurs 27th April 2017 @ 7pm @ "Junction Hotel" Newport/Spotswood

They're open to anyone, but there's almost always a couple of people who I'd consider 'advanced'. They don't have a neon sign over their head however.

 

Hey Peter, thanks for the reply..

Yeah I have attended a few of these and they weren't quite what I was looking for.

 

@Robert Rich don't know where you live but if you were looking at starting one up for the 'North', I would be interested in attending even if it was for moderate to advanced (which I think I would likely qualify).

If it was for moderate to advanced only I am unsure how you could police this as I sure as hell don't want to submit an asset and liabilities just to catch up or what would be a requirement to be moderate?

 

There's a Brisbane meetup and the way they weed out the "advanced" from "non advanced" is to hold it in usual working hours....

 

What about if the MBs and BAs are advanced investors themselves?

 

So I guess full assets and liabilities is the metric we will need to implement haha.

Even with 3 or more properties, someone could own 1.5M worth of property with 2 and someone could own 600k and have 3. Who is more experienced? Hence why I hate having number of as it should be assets value but also how can you tell if the person has 2, 3, 6 or 10 properties until they talk and you might get a bit more understanding.

 

If the qualification is 3 or more IPs, then most of the brokers on this forum would qualify quite easily, as would the buyers agents I know.

 

There was a group in Brisbane that I was apart of called 'BIG' Better Investing Group not that it was exclusive to advanced users but they did topics on certain parts and had presenters to come and present on the topic.

There was a charge for this as they needed to hire out a room but I think at the peak it was getting about 80-100 people attending on the big nights and 30-40 on the smaller nights.

 

Guess we would have to invent a secret handshake to keep these pesky MB out.

 

I don't know about Melbourne but the Dymphna Boholt Sydney meetups would match what you are looking for. I'm not saying to sign up or to not sign up, but I will say I've found it to be an active supportive community here in Sydney though.

 

Hi Team,
Ok some good feedback, thanks! To clarify, I'm mostly looking to catch up with people in following criteria:
+ Established property investors
+ Willing to share their stories
+ No soliciting of business from the group
+ No tyre kickers wasting time talking about Justin Bieber etc
I don't mind the idea of having speakers or a roster where we each brief the group on a purchase or project. Happy to make it as structured or as casual as the group wants.
I'm in Eastern Melbourne by the way but happy to meet where convenient.

 

I would have thought you could get 1,2,3 in the current Melboune meetups....
4, probably you can avoid (though, it's nice to sometimes talk about something other than investing)

 

Which Melbourne meetups did you attend?

 

The existing Eastern Melbourne group evolved from something like that. It used to be quite structured. Speakers and different discussion topics were organised, at various times there was even a door charge.

Today it's a friendly get together over dinner and it's extremely casual. If you'd rather it was more formal I don't think anyone is going to have a problem with it, you just need to organise it. Some of the most popular meetings are those where there's been a guest speaker to discuss a particular topic. The problem is very few people are willing to dedicate the time and resources to organising this.

 

In that case come as an investor or with a "value add" attitude

 

Must have had a sherbet or two "many"
Thought the title said " Melbourne Cup for Moderate Investors"
(might need glasses, actual reading ones instead of the drinking one's)