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Find & Finance Your Community Dream Property
April 24, 2023 @ 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT
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Find and Finance Your Community Dream Property
Monday, April 24, 2023
- Pacific: 1:00-4:00pm
- Mountain: 2:00-5:00pm
- Central: 3:00-6:00pm
- Eastern: 4:00-7:00pm
Join licensed realtor and community co-founder, Jonah Mesritz, to learn how to successfully find and finance your community dream property.
About the event
Many groups are ready to build their dream home, but have concerns about finances. Capital is needed for the down payment, monthly mortgage, taxes, insurance payments, and initial development costs.
During this workshop, experienced community realtor Jonah Mesritz will help you feel empowered in finding and financing your dream community property. Using tried and true creative financing techniques, taking advantage of loans and structures you might not have known about, and utilizing the right legal entities for co-ownership, your community vision can become a reality!
During this workshop you will:
- Discover creative ways to purchase property
- Learn dynamics that are important when buying as a group
- Learn what aspects of a communal property will set you up for success
- Hear lessons learned from other communities during the buying process
- Be able to ask specific questions about your desired project
About your presenter
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Jonah Mesritz
Jonah is a licensed REALTOR who has supported many forming groups to purchase their community properties by utilizing smart creative financing techniques and his own property purchasing experience. Jonah has served as both a U.S. Navy SEAL and a Firefighter and uses those experiences to aid small unit dynamics and create successful team tactics for community projects. His side hustles include buying investment real estate, creating an investor fund, starting businesses like Boochcraft high alcohol kombucha, and investing in large 100+ unit residential builds. In 2010 he co-founded the Emerald Village (EVO) ecovillage in North County San Diego, where he lived for ten beautiful years. In 2021 he co-purchased a 10+ unit Buddhist retreat center in Southern Oregon, where he has moved with his family and some other EVO co-founders, to start a new land-based community project and education center called Terra Lumen. These days he continues to grow his businesses while learning deeper levels of earth stewardship and forest management.
Learn more about Jonah’s work here.
Location
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Live Zoom Sessions
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Affordable and Accessible
All our events are run on a sliding scale basis. Generous donations cover the costs for low-income attendees. FIC is committed to making our programs accessible to people of all walks of life.
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Watch the Recording
You’ll receive the recording of your event to view for 60 days. So don’t worry if you can’t attend a live session. Watch or listen whenever it is convenient for you. Transcripts available upon request.
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