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      • Upcoming Events
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      • Meeting Locations
    • Membership
      • Plans & Benefits
    • Resources
      • IRPOA
      • Legislative
      • Legislative-Rent Control
      • Articles & Newsletters
      • Property
      • Services Directory
      • Vendors
      • Learning Strategies
    • National REIA
      • About National REIA
      • Home Depot
      • Rent Perfect - ISC
      • Millennial Insurance
      • Homeworthi
      • Equity Trust
      • Foreclosure.com
      • idiCORE
      • Lifestyle Health Plans
      • ODP Business Solutions
      • Privy
      • REI Pro
      • Other Benefit Partners
    • About CCIA
      • Welcome to CCIA
      • Articles by Jane Garvey
      • Advertise with Us
Chicago Creative Investors Association

Email us: CCIA@CCIA-Info.com

  • Home
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • 4-16-23 CCIA Meeting
    • 4-22-23 RE Workshops
    • Meeting Locations
  • Membership
    • Plans & Benefits
  • Resources
    • IRPOA
    • Legislative
    • Legislative-Rent Control
    • Articles & Newsletters
    • Property
    • Services Directory
    • Vendors
    • Learning Strategies
  • National REIA
    • About National REIA
    • Home Depot
    • Rent Perfect - ISC
    • Millennial Insurance
    • Homeworthi
    • Equity Trust
    • Foreclosure.com
    • idiCORE
    • Lifestyle Health Plans
    • ODP Business Solutions
    • Privy
    • REI Pro
    • Other Benefit Partners
  • About CCIA
    • Welcome to CCIA
    • Articles by Jane Garvey
    • Advertise with Us

Welcome To CCIA!

Have you been looking for a Real Estate Investors Association to help get you started?

Are you concerned about the Quality and Integrity of the information you will receive at these meetings?

Well you're  in the right place! 


For almost 40 Years M. Jane Garvey has run the CCIA and has been connecting Chicagoland Real Estate Investors with some of the most brilliant minds & ideas in Real Estate.  Jane is an active investor & monitors the legislative issues that impact real estate investing.


Mission Statement

To continue to be (since 1984) the most respected and credible provider of Real Estate Investing Education, Motivation, Networking & Resources for Real Estate Entrepreneurs!


We offer  Membership Plans as well as a "Pay as You Go" option to attend our meetings.  

For $99/year you can Join CCIA and you and a partner can attend meetings together for 1 year (or $149 for 2 years).  Or, Guests can pay $15 per meeting and attend only the meetings they're interested in.   


Membership Plans & Benefits

EVENTS: Join us for a Meeting soon!

Sign Up for our Email & Newsletter List

OUR TEAM

M. Jane Garvey - President

Pam Kowalczyk - Office Manager & Website Designer

Pam Kowalczyk - Office Manager & Website Designer

For almost 40 Years Jane has been connecting Chicagoland Real Estate Investors with some of the most brilliant minds & ideas in Real Estate.  When not running CCIA meetings, Jane spends her time actively investing & working on legislative issues that impact real estate investing.


ARTICLES BY JANE

Jane's Bio

Pam Kowalczyk - Office Manager & Website Designer

Pam Kowalczyk - Office Manager & Website Designer

Pam Kowalczyk - Office Manager & Website Designer

Pam has freelanced for Jane &  CCIA since 2004.  From Memberships & Benefits, Event Planning to Website Building... if something needs doing, Pam gets it done!


2020-21 brought Pam THREE grand baby boys... Can't wait to see you all in person again and show you pictures!  

You can reach Pam from 11am-2pm daily at the office 630-858-4663

Sameena Khalfan

Pam Kowalczyk - Office Manager & Website Designer

Sameena Khalfan

Sameena is one of our valuable volunteers.  She is an active real estate investor & proven problem solver.  Sameena started in Real Estate Investing in 2007 working Short Sales & Rehabbing.  She is currently Rehabbing & Wholesaling

Sameena's Bio

Steve Smullin

Steve Smullin

Sameena Khalfan

Real Estate Problem Solving since 1988.

Steve is a Commercial Real Estate Investor, Broker, Counselor, Exchangor, Educator and long time practitioner using Creative Solutions to Real Estate Related Problems.


Steve facilitates our Property/Deals part of our meeting and has taught many CCIA workshops on various Real Estate Strategies.  

Steve's Bio

Tony Guisto

Steve Smullin

Tony Guisto

Tony is a Licensed RE Broker in Illinois Servicing mainly the South Suburbs.
At CCIA Meetings Tony can typically be found Networking with other investors or helping Jane inside the meeting room.

Benefits

Join our E-Mail & Newsletter List

Join our E-Mail & Newsletter List

Boy do we offer benefits!!!

CCIA is a Chapter Member of The National REIA and we can offer Members discounts & rebates at companies like:

  • The Home Depot
  • Arcana Insurance
  • Rent Perfect / Investigative Screening
  • ODP Business Solutions™
  • Equity Trust
  • HammerZen
  • and Many More!

Learn More

Join our E-Mail & Newsletter List

Join our E-Mail & Newsletter List

Join our E-Mail & Newsletter List

Receive notifications of our  Real Estate Education Meetings & Events.


Enjoy our Monthly Newsletter with helpful Real Estate Investing and Landlording tips!


CCIA's Email list is private.  
CCIA does not share or sell your info. 

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GIVING BACK

Rebuilding Together - Aurora

Rebuilding Together - Aurora

Rebuilding Together - Aurora

Repair homes, revitalize communities and transform lives!


There are many ways to become involved in the movement to repair homes,  revitalize communities and transform lives. 

There are active projects  and public work days year-round.  We encourage our CCIA Members to  volunteer by registering for one of the community work days - From Days of Service to Military Veterans, to the National Rebuilding Day(s) in April that CCIA Participates in!

Toys for Tots

Rebuilding Together - Aurora

Rebuilding Together - Aurora

When you donate to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation you're giving less fortunate children hope - and a reason to believe in their future.

Ways to Donate

When you donate a toy, you experience the joy of knowing that toy will be under the  tree in a family's home and bring a smile to a less fortunate child on Christmas morning.  

SOME IDEAS

New, Unwrapped  Age appropriate Toys (dolls, trucks, action figures, trains, etc.); Educational Baby Toys; Books; Puzzles; Gift Cards for clothing, food or electronics; Games; Blocks; Arts & Craft Supplies; Sports Equipment; Hats &  Gloves

CCIA's Code of Ethics

Code of Ethics

WHEREAS we, the members of the Chicago  Creative Investors Association (CCIA), recognizing we have a duty to the  public and to our fellow members to provide products and services of  the highest standards of honesty and integrity, ACKNOWLEDGE that:

  • The acquisition, ownership, management, and disposition of real estate or its contracts (hereinafter the RE Business or RE Industry) is a highly regulated segment of our free enterprise system that entails substantial risks, and we who freely assume those risks are entitled to a suitable profit;
  • An RE Business, when conducted properly, helps to return real property to its highest and best use, which ultimately leads to higher property values for our community;
  • Since the owners/buyers/sellers/tenants we deal with are our customers, weare in a service industry and thus are actually in the “people business”;
  • Plenty of “good deals” exist for everyone in the RE Business, and we believe we can enjoy greater success through the benefits of our relationships than without those relationships; and
  • We will treat our membership in CCIA with the upmost professionalism so the name CCIA will remain synonymous with integrity, competency, fairness, and honor.

 WHEREAS we also share a common DESIRE to:

  • Provide our customers with the best possible value while simultaneously maximizing our own profits in ways that are equitable, legal, and ethical;
  • Promote the positive contributions of the RE Industry through free enterprise, thereby creating a better image of our industry and demonstrating how the public is served;
  • Expand our knowledge of the RE Business;
  • Promote the educational value and fraternity of the membership; and
  • Act as positive role models for the RE Industry when dealing with tenants, the public, the media, government officials, and all others.

THEREFORE, WE AGREE to:

  • Comply  with both the spirit and the letter of all relevant public policies  governing the health, safety, and welfare of consumers including Fair  Housing laws and regulations, and protect them by using quality  materials, workmanship, and construction practices;
  • Ensure,  whenever practical, all agreements use easy-to-understand language that  clearly expresses the specific terms, conditions, obligations, and  commitments of all parties;
  • Honor all commitments to homeowners, including supplying copies of all agreements to each signer within a reasonable period;
  • Treat buyers, sellers, tenants, renters or lessees, employees and peers with the respect and fairness to which they are entitled and which we would expect in their place;
  • Always keep confidential any personal information made known to us;
  • Treat our customers’ homes and belongings with the utmost care at all times;
  • Never intentionally exaggerate, minimize, conceal, or otherwise misrepresent any relevant fact relating to a property or transaction, or obtain business by means as may be deceptive, misleading, or unwarranted by fact or reasonable probability;
  • Expose all schemes that may be fraudulent or misrepresentative, and to aid in the exposure of such schemes;
  • Not perform, or cause to be performed, any act which either does or tends to reflect poorly on or bring into disrepute any member, their RE Business, CCIA or any part of the RE Industry in general, and to operate our RE Business in accordance with fair and honorable standards of competition, ever mindful of the purposes and objectives of CCIA;
  • Seek to resolve all controversies through a non-litigation dispute resolution mechanism;
  • Assist fellow CCIA members whenever prudent and appropriate;
  • Remain informed of: 

  1. a) matters affecting housing in our community, including relevant public policies, which affect our REI Business, and  
  2. b) new business methods within the RE Industry
     

  • Support  and abide by CCIA’s decisions in promoting and enforcing this Code of  Ethics including, but not limited to, a lifetime ban from CCIA.

The  powers to interpret, administer and enforce the provisions hereof shall  be vested in the Board of Directors of CCIA with the power of  suspension or expulsion, after a recommendation by a committee called by  the president in accordance with CCIA By-laws for the purpose of  holding a hearing investigating any member violating the same, or the spirit thereof.

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