Calling All NON-US BiggerPockets Investors - Share Your Success!

[Jarrod Jemison]

Calling all foreign investors! How has BiggerPockets helped you grow your business?

We know we have a small but growing community of non-US investors from countries like Australia, The United Kingdom (UK or England, Ireland, Wales, or Scotland), New Zealand, and European countries. While we'd love to hear from our Canadian friends to the north, we are really looking for success form other continents around the world. 

Your success story may be featured on a little video we are putting together to show off BiggerPockets, so please let us know!

Obviously, that list is not exclusive - we'd love ANY success stories around the world, those countries just happen to have the most users after the US.

You rock!

[Daniel Ryu]

I lived in South Korea for over 20 years. 

Thanks to BiggerPockets, I met other investors who happen to live in Korea and we started a meetup in Seoul. We've grown that meetup to over 1,000 members, in part thanks to great BP members who appeared virtually as guests:

@Brandon Turner

@Joshua Dorkin

@Ben Leybovich

@Engelo Rumora

@Matt Faircloth

@Mark Shaffar

@Ali Boone

@Jacob Blackett

BP also lead to my meeting investing partners in Jacksonville, Florida, and I was able to make my first investment while living in Seoul, Korea. (I documented much of that process here on BP through a members blog to help others looking to do the same)

Through the local meetup we started, I was also able to connect with others and that eventually lead to my becoming Director of Acquisitions for a Mobile Home Park focused private equity group.

It's been a quite a journey and it all started because of BiggerPockets. Without the forum and the chance to start asking questions and meeting other like-minded people, I'm not sure my desire to become a real estate investor would have ever evolved past reading books and online blog posts. 

If anyone new to real estate investing reads this post, know this - it doesn't matter where you're living or where you're starting from. I knew nothing about real estate when I started and I was living in Korea but wanting to invest in the US. It really sounded crazy to most people, and even to myself!

But thanks to BP and technology, I was able to accomplish a lot in a relatively short amount of time. 

Stay focused on your next goal and the obstacle you need to overcome to reach that goal! Between BP and Google, you'll undoubtedly find the solution ^^