New Bigger Pockets Pro Members Seeking Mentor to expand portfolio

[Stephen Kunen]

Hi All,

I'm Steve, and my wife Handie and I just became BIggerPockets Pro Members today, 3/19 after watching Brandon Turner's webinar on analyzing deals and are very excited to continue building our real estate business!

We have been investing for the past 2 years and have gone through a couple of real estate courses, seminars, books and have purchased 3 single family homes in Indiana from a turn key property company that got us in the game.  We've used conventional fixed rate mortgages so far, but believe we need a new strategy to keep acquiring more properties, including multi-families and perhaps apartment buildings at some point. 

Our immediate next purchase is going to be our personal residence, but we'd love to be able to house-hack/ buy a duplex to rent out the other half of the home. Our goal is to be able to live off of the cash flow from our rental properties. 

We hope to meet a mentor who is willing to help us get to the next level in our real estate game and joined the Bigger Pockets Pro group in the hopes of finding someone who may be willing to give us a shot. 

We both work full time and supplement our income this way, and are in this for the long haul.  We're willing to study up, work hard, and earn the trust of someone willing to teach us what they know! 

Hope someone receives this message in a bottle!

Best,

Steve & Handie

[Brie Schmidt]

@Stephen Kunen

 - I bought my first investment as a live in triplex and never had a single problem living next to tenants, well.... my husband and I had to learn to "yell" in low voices as to not disturb tenants.  Otherwise it was not an inconvenience at all.  Tenant screening is very important, above and beyond financial and criminal screening we took into account personalities.

We used to have Sunday BBQ's with our tenants and they both moved out in June 2013 and we still talk with them to this day.