Hi Investor,

Hopefully you had a wonderful holiday and start to the New Year. We had an issue with our printer over the holidays so the mailer for our Category 5 event on January 31st didn’t land until this week. A little further below is the message from Bruce in email format so you can learn what Category 5 will cover.

After piecing together the manual for Category 5, we’ve realized 200 pages is very difficult to cover in one day. We’re currently making arrangement to air a live webinar next Monday, January 19th at around 3pm. In this Prep-Webinar, Bruce will cover Chapter 1 of Category 5. This will help us save time to cover more topics and save room for more Q&A at the live event.

The webinar will be free. THIS WILL ALSO BE RECORDED and available on our website the next day (hopefully). I realize it is a holiday. There can only be a certain number on the live webinar so this way everyone will be able to watch at some point. I’ll send out more details on Friday about how that will work.

Early sign ups have been extremely strong despite the mailer glitch. All early bird pricing and free newsletter offer ends January 21st. More on that in Bruce’s message:

***There’s a storm positioned right over California.***

A perfect real estate storm that I guarantee will blow away everything you thought you knew about investing in this market. Even if you’re just starting out (or staring over) you have got to be prepared for what’s about to happen. This storm is no joke. This is a monster about to hit, and hit big time.

You can become one of the people that thrives while your competitors struggle to figure out what just hit them. Category 5 will save you from heading blindly, in the wrong direction, with the rest of the herd. You’ll get the tools, the resources and the contacts - big players! — to help you create your own perfect game plan. This report and seminar is your own personal golden parachute.

I’ve never been very secretive about what we know about the business. But, for the first time, I’ll share with you in this report the two-year game plan that the Norris Group will put into action. It’s about what to hold, where to hold it and when to migrate back to California…with all of your money.

The hardest thing we had to figure out was how to make this a one-day event! My job is to take each chapter and answer this question…How does that affect me as a California real estate investor? Believe me: Each chapter could have been its own, separate seminar. Take a look at some of the highlights:

The Next California Comeback #2: Five Different “Proofs”

I’m going to give you the most valuable information for the California investor: When will the next California Comeback happen? There’s an entire chapter dedicated to this critical component of our strategy. It’s not a projection of a rock-solid date, but a calculation of five different “proofs” that indicate where the bottom will take place. We, as always, won’t just give you our conclusions…we’ll let you in on the methodology behind them. Every quarter, the five projections will be updated…until it becomes obvious — to only us– that the bottom is near. You and I won’t need extraordinary “will power” to move in the opposite direction of the crowd. The temptation will definitely be there. Sellers reach maximum “capitulation” near the bottom of the market, when things are so bad people panic and just “dump” the inventory and move on. But we’ll have charts to tell us the next boom has just begun, and when to strike.

Can You Figure Out Where Foreclosures Are Trending?

This chapter alone is a powerhouse of information! We looked at the appraisal of over 80 properties, rental trends, and the price hit in these areas over several years. Here’s the magic. We take this “comp” to determine similar houses in the area, then pull the “debt” level of everyone of these houses to find out how encumbered the area is.

Finally, we compare the going rates and rental trends on 2, 3, and 4 bedroom houses. Why is this useful and important data? Because a recent Corelogic report discovered the areas with the most over-encumbered real estate suffered a 15 times greater likelihood of price decline in the coming year. These are the future hot beds for foreclosure. You’ll discover the safest areas to “flip” and the safest to “hold” your properties.

Back to The $500 Million Dollar Question

The cities and counties of California will be given $500 million to purchase lender-owned properties. Will they become friend or foe?

First of all, the cities and counties have a blue-print detailing exactly how the money is to be used. Know this: The City has just become your prime competitor. And they have to spend this money within 18 months…or lose it. We’ll share with you this blue-print and discuss how and how we cannot profit from it.

To see a complete table of contents for Category 5, visit http://www.thenorrisgroup.com/catagory5.html.

I’m throwing in some additional bonuses. I collect a lot of information from all kinds of sources. I’m making many of the reports I’ve read while preparing the Category 5 material available to all attendees in our web portal. Invaluable information at your fingertips.

Sign up before January 21st and also get one free year of our California Economic Update Newsletter ($129 value). This one-day event plus all the bonuses will absolutely give you the means to be at the center of the action and take profitable advantage of the opportunity. We’ve never seen anything like it…and probably won’t ever again.

Every attendee will receive a full color, 200+ page manual (charts look so much better in color), the CDs of the live event after they are edited and duplicated, and we will, of course, be serving you breakfast, snacks and lunch! What else would you expect from a TNG event?

Join us! - Remember to sign up before January 21st to receive one free year of The Norris Group’s Economic Update Newsletter ($129 value)!

Bruce Norris PS As always, make sure to bring plenty of business cards. Our timing events always attract a wonderful and very diverse crowd. You can sign up online now at http://www.thenorrisgroup.com/catagory5.html

When: Saturday, January 31st Times: 7:30 Registration, 8am-4pm event, 4pm-? Networking Where: Double Tree Ontario Ontario, CA More info at http://www.thenorrisgroup.com/catagory5.html

Other Upcoming Events

Jan 17th: California “Only” Investor Essential with IRCA-LA Four Points Sheraton, 5990 Green Valley Cir Culver City, CA 90230 http://www.irca-losangeles.com/

Jan 20th: Riverside Escrow Association First American, 3625 14th St, Riverside, CA 92501 Contact: Lori Renberg Brown 951-683-2602

Jan 22nd-25th: Real Wealth Expo Bruce will be giving his “12 Reason Not to Sit on Your Hands” talk as well as teach his California “Only” Investor Essentials LIVE Scottish Rite Center San Diego, CA http://www.realwealthinvestor.com/

Jan 28th: Investors Workshops of Orange County, and Interview with Shawn Watkins DoubleTree Hotel, 100 The City Drive Orange, CA. 92868 http://www.investorsworkshops.com/

Januar y 31st: Category 5 by Bruce Norris Double Tree Ontario Ontario, CA Early pricing ends January 21st as well as free newsletter offer http://www.thenorrisgroup.com/catagory5.html

February 21st: Mike Cantu Property Management Course The Digital Library Riverside Community College, 4800 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92506 More details to be released on January 22nd!

And Just Case You Missed It…

Our holiday newsletter is always one of my favorites. Here’s the link just in case you missed it.

http://www.thenorrisgroup.com/New/pdf /2008-December-TNGCIQ.pdf

Thanks for reading and we sincerely hope to see you in the next couple of weeks.

Sincerely,

Aaron Norris

The Norris Group 6391 Magnolia Avenue, Ste. C Riverside, CA 92506 Tel: (951) 780-5856 Fax: (951) 780-9827 www.TheNorrisGroup.com ‘Equipping California Real Estate Professionals for Tomorrow’s Challenges’