New Member from Cleveland, OH

[Steve Mizer]

Hi Everybody!

I'm Steve Mizer from Cleveland, OH and I just recently joined BP. The content of this site is amazing! I have already read the Ultimate Beginner's Guide and I'm loving the podcasts.

My wife and I both work part-time and volunteer full-time. It's a passion of ours and we'd like to be able to devote even more time to it while having the flexibility to share our time and efforts overseas as well. We spent 9 months in Europe doing our volunteer work and would like to go back for a few months in the next year. On that note, I had an epiphany within the past month or two realizing, "Why should I have to pay rent for 3 months while I'm not even living here? I could buy a duplex, pay rent to myself, and have someone else pay the mortgage!"

So needless to say I would like to get into Buy-and-Hold REI and build a self-sustaining empire to give me the time freedom that I need. However, I'd like to do this without jeopardizing the current time freedom I already have for my volunteering. I understand there will be risk involved, but I'm willing to start slow to minimize the risk.

Well that's my shpeal! I'm excited to get started and to share my experiences, hopefully contributing something to this awesome site at the same time!!!

Thanks Y'all!