New investor from South/Central Texas

[Jason Andrews]

Hi all,

I am a beginning real estate investor from Cuero, Texas. Right now my main objective is to start as a Buy/Hold investor in SF and possibly move to MF later down the road. My real estate investing WILL pave my way to and early retirement from my current job. Tired of working for "THE MAN" and work for myself.

I have always been interested in real estate and wanted to do some real estate investing but just put it off. Guess a little nervous about it. For the last few years I have had a friend of mine that has been buying houses and renting them out. The other day he honestly told me what he was bringing in on passive cash flow and I was stunned. He still works full time and works shift work like I do and does real estate part time. I am assuming he is going to retire early and do it full time. He said he would mentor me some and help me out. I told myself I can do this. Now I say IT IS TIME!!! I am taking the plunge.

My son has brought it up to me about investing as well. He has a gentleman at his office that has about 50 houses now and said it was great. He wants to partner up with me and we can get started. Also, his boss is into real estate investing as well and would be willing to invest some money with us.

So now I am researching and soaking in as much real estate knowledge as I can before I start. Lately I found a weekend radio program on AM that discusses real estate investing that I found as a podcast and listen to and then I come upon the BP podcast. BP has been very enlightnening. The wealth of knowledge on here is unlimited.

I am ready to build a new Texas network and learn as much as possible from everyone here.

Sorry so long winded.

Jason Andrews