New house hacker in Newport News, VA

[Mike W.]

Hello everybody,

after reading a lot in this forum, listening thorugh most of the BP podcasts and reading multiple books, it is about time to introduce myself.

My name is Michael, 30 years old and recently moved from Germany to Newport News, VA due to some job oppotunities. I've worked as a plumber/heating-/ gas-tech for many years overseas and I hope this will come in handy during my real estate journey.

I would consider myself quite frugal, but i always lived for rent, i still do. This needs to change, to me this is lost money. After i built up some credit, saved for a down payment and monitored the local marked for quite a while i want to take the next steps.

My plan is to find a 3 or 4 unit multi family property around the Newport News area which i can house hack and maybe add some equity to. Unfortunately, such bigger properties seem to be pretty rare around here.

I don't have a lot of connections yet, but found some local real estate groups. I intend to join some meetings in the furure if my job allows that. So if anybody knows a good lender around this area or just has some expereiences to share, i would appreciate that.