Starting out in the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area

[Kristin Struzyna]

Hello BP community!

My boyfriend and I live in the Oakland/Alameda area and are interested in RE Investing. We have been in "sponge" mode for the last few months - relentlessly devouring the BP podcasts and forums, reading books on the subject, and taking anyone we know in RE out to lunch to pick their brains. Now we want to open it up to the larger BP community. Here's our deal:

Who are we? We're both in our late twenties and we both hold jobs while training for the Olympic rowing team. We've been representing Team USA at World Championships/Olympic Games for the past nine years, and are likely transitioning out of training in the next few years. We originally moved to the Bay Area for the training center that's here, and now we like it so much we want to stay. We want to go into Real Estate Investing once we're done competing. We're competitive people that like that a challenge and are driven to see a project through.

So far we're thinking of starting with multi-family residential in Alameda/Oakland and going from there, but we're open to ideas. If you know the area, have thoughts about the market, or are interested in having your lunch paid for in exchange for advice or ideas about the market, financing, strategies, etc. - let's do it. We want to network in the area and learn.

By the way, we're going to the Meetup in SF next week - so maybe we'll see some of you there.

Kristin 

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Hi Kristin,

Welcome to Biggerpockets.  Have fun absorbing all the real estate information.  @J. Martin is right down the street so that's one of the persons that you should connect with.  If you have a sister, J is looking for a wife.  Alright, just kidding there.

Joshua Durrin has been working on a 4-plex deal in Alameda. It has some value from an OO viewpoint to me. You should work something out with him and pay him a referral fee for it. J, can you tag him?

If you haven't already, you might consider using the search function and locating other active investors in your area and connect with them.

Best of luck.