August’s night meeting is being held on Thursday, August 20th from 7:00PM – 9:00PM at: The Hyatt House Provo/Pleasant Grove 544 South Pleasant Grove Blvd. Pleasant Grove, UT 84062. View Map.

Non-Member Door Fee: $15

Our featured speaker is Ben Lakey, who will be presenting:

5 Investing Strategies to Differentiate the Rookies from the Pros

Ahead of Ben will be Nuria Rivera, speaking on:

Leading a Team While Working in 2020

Hi, my name is Ben Lakey. I am passionate about my wife, my three girls, and real estate, in that order.

I began my investing career flipping homes in 2002 when my brother called me at Ft. Gordon, Georgia, because he had just won a foreclosure auction and needed additional money to fund within 24 hours. After reading all of Utah’s foreclosure and title laws, I wired him the money. Once I got home, we remodeled the home ourselves and sold it. I made more money from that month of work than I would make in 6 months with the college degree I was pursuing.

I now have experience as a principal in over 300 transactions, including foreclosure auctions, REO, HUD homes, seller finance, lease options, MLS, FSBO, fix-and-flip, wholesale, hard money, notes, land entitlement and development, and new construction.

After dipping my foot in every pool, I now focus on land entitlement, primarily residential and self-storage. I also currently practice law, specializing in real estate development and construction matters.

I also served an LDS mission in Poland, and deployed to Afghanistan with the army.

I look forward to working with you on a transaction in the future in any capacity. Let’s do business!

Nuria came to this country when she was 11 years old and learned a new language and culture. She is a millennial entrepreneur and launched a Title & Escrow company in 2015! Novation Title has received the “Best of State” award for 4 years and it has been a very humble experience for her and her employees. She feels passionate about the community and giving back, in fact she has a non-profit organization called “Dreamers’ Foundation” that holds one big annual fundraising event to give back to an already established charitable organization. Nuria sits on the national board or directors for NAHREP & loves to help with the very important goals of the organization.

Nuria loves art, running, yoga, family, her nonprofit and spending time developing people. She loves to read, evolve and learn! She feels passionate about developing people and helping them reach their dreams.

This month’s night meeting is being held on Thursday, July 16th from 7:00PM – 9:00PM at: The Hyatt House Provo/Pleasant Grove 544 South Pleasant Grove Blvd. Pleasant Grove, UT 84062. View Map.

Non-Member Door Fee: $15

Our featured speaker is Clayton Wolf, who will be presenting:

Lessons From Bankruptcy To 1,000 Flips

Ahead of Clayton, UVREIA Secretary, Alan Walker, will also be speaking to us about:

Real Estate Investing: Comparing Q2 of 2019 To Q2 2020

P. Clayton Wolf II (Clayton) grew up in Oregon, from an early age spending time in his father’s bridge-building company. Shortly after arriving in Utah in 2004, he bought his first home and walked on to UVU’s (then UVSC’s) first year of having a wrestling team. Clayton continued investing in real estate through college, but had plenty of forays into the hustle of entrepreneurialism, investing in one time or another in: an oil well, a trucking company, a tile company, a nutritional supplement company, and many other startups.

After graduating, he focused on real estate, eventually getting blind-sided by the Great Recession. Losing everything, he and his business partner reviewed the how’s and the why’s of what had happened. They learned the lessons- and refocused again finding a unique opportunity in the Midwest. Clayton began buying foreclosed properties in the Midwest for pennies on the dollar- and has flipped over 1000 properties (and counting). He graduated from the University of Utah’s Master of Real Estate Development program in 2017, and is currently transitioning to his lifelong dream business: Wolf Capital- which will focus on remodeling undervalued apartment complexes.

Clayton is a single dad to an amazing 12 year old and two ex-step twin daughters. Clayton loves football, competed on the American Ninja Warrior, and landed a backflip behind his wakeboard boat on Utah Lake on January 25th, 2020. He prefers the summer, but is proud to be the first boat in the “Utah Lake Winter Wakeboard Club.

Alan Walker started his real estate career as a buy & hold investor, purchasing a single family home and duplex within a month of each other. He quickly transitioned to a full-time realtor, picking up 4 rentals in a year. He works heavily with investors and also does flips throughout Utah.