Daredevil Real Estate Artist and 5-time Bestselling Author Frank McKinney will be kicking off 2011 as the Featured Speaker at the Distressed Real Estate Investor’s Association meeting on January 4th 2011. The Distressed REIA meeting will be held at the Deerfield Beach Hilton at 7 p.m.

Frank McKinney, an international bestselling author has been featured on Fox News, CBS, NBC, ABC, The Travel Channel, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and many other TV Stations and newspapers around the world. Frank McKinney is a philanthropic capitalist who sees opportunities and creates markets where none existed before. He has built spec homes (homes built without a buyer) valued in the tens of millions of dollars.

The Distressed Real Estate Investors Association is a real estate investment club for active and potential real estate investors of all levels. The Distressed REIA welcomes all real estate investors to attend the monthly meetings which are held on the first Tuesday of each month. All investors are welcome, regardless of their level of experience in investing in real estate. The Distressed REIA offers local and national guest speakers on real estate and networking with other real estate investors in Miami Dade County, Broward County and Palm Beach County. Realtors, mortgage brokers, investors, landlords and anyone that works within or supporting the real estate industry are welcome.

Local real estate expert Lex Levinrad is the founder of the Distressed Real Estate Investors Association. Lex brings a tremendous amount of experience in real estate to South Florida real estate investors. “We would like to teach new investors how to get started investing in real estate and we need to educate them on why now is such a great time to be buying real estate,” says Levinrad.

The Distressed REIA meeting will be held on Tuesday January 4th, 2011 at 7 p.m. at the Deerfield Beach Hotel in Deerfield Beach, Fla. For additional information, please visit: www.DistressedREIA.com