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National REIA
Independent real estate investors and landlords, and the local investor associations, property owner associations, apartment associations and landlord associations that serve them
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National REIA is a federation of independent local real estate investor associations in the United States, founded in 1985 and run as a 501(c)(6) trade association from Crestview Hills, Kentucky. It reports more than 120 local chapters and roughly 40,000 members. Individuals cannot join nationally: membership runs through an affiliated local association, and the national body's own join page is an application form for local groups wanting to affiliate. What the national organisation supplies is a layer on top of local activity — negotiated member benefits such as a Home Depot rebate programme, education through National REIA U, publications, legislative advocacy, and a national code of ethics that member groups must adopt as a condition of affiliation. That code carries specific substantive rules, including a prohibition on inflating property valuations beyond a stated margin of fair market value and a requirement to disclose property conditions fully. The board can deny, revoke or suspend a group's membership for failing to maintain those standards.
How it works
A real estate investor joins a local association — in Washington State, for example, REAPS — and receives National REIA benefits through it, entering the national member portal with a chapter code. Local associations set their own dues, meeting schedules and programming. The national body affiliates groups, negotiates vendor benefits, runs online education, publishes Real Estate Investing Today, and represents the sector on legislative issues.
Typical member
Individual members are private real estate investors and landlords who belong to a local association. The federation's direct members are the local associations themselves, which range from small investor clubs to established landlord and apartment associations.
Membership requirements
Requirements in detail, with history →Requirements are the tests the organization itself publishes — an age ceiling, a company-revenue floor, a net-worth minimum, a role. Where a figure straddles a range, the organization's own assessment decides. Local chapters can apply stricter tests than the published standard.
| Criterion | Published requirement | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Other criterion | Individuals must belong to an affiliated local real estate investor association; there is no direct national individual membership | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ |
| Other criterion | Affiliating groups must adopt National REIA's Code of Ethics | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ |
| Geographic restriction | United States | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ |
| Accredited-investor status | No accredited-investor or net-worth test is published | Verified September 2026Medium confidenceSource ↗ |
Published criteria as verified on the dates shown. Final eligibility and admission decisions belong entirely to National REIA. See how you compare against these criteria →
Initiation fees are paid once on joining; dues recur. Chapter dues, retreats, travel and events are usually additional and are listed separately when the organization discloses them. Figures are as published or reported on the date shown — not quotations.
| Cost | First year | Three years | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual dues | Not publicly disclosed. National REIA does not publish a national individual rate; dues are set by each affiliated local association. For a worked example, its Washington State affiliate REAPS charges $249 a year for individual membership. | Source ↗ | |
| Initiation fee | Not publicly disclosed | ||
Structure and programming
Where it operates
1 cities with a page on this siteNational REIA reports 120 chapters in total; those verified for major cities are listed here.
| Chapter or location | City |
|---|---|
| Real Estate Association of Puget Sound (REAPS) affiliate | Seattle |
Independent context
The important structural fact is that National REIA is a federation, not a membership organisation you can join directly, so "National REIA membership" always means membership of some local group with a national overlay. Quality therefore varies with the affiliate rather than with the national brand, and any assessment should be of the specific local association. The code of ethics is the one genuinely distinguishing feature: it is unusually concrete for a trade body in this sector, with rules about valuation and disclosure and a board power to expel groups, which matters in a field with a persistent problem of seminar-driven promotion. Neither national dues nor a typical local dues range is published, and the 40,000 member figure is self-reported and aggregated from independent affiliates, so it should not be treated as an audited number.
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Sources
- National REIA homepage, National Real Estate Investors Association. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
- About Us, National Real Estate Investors Association. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
- Find a REIA, National Real Estate Investors Association. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 2
- Join, National Real Estate Investors Association. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 2
- Real Estate Association of Puget Sound — home, REAPS. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 8
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