New Member out of Sacramento, CA

[Jay Willems]

Good Evening,

My name is Jay. I serve full time as a Staff Sergeant in the US Air Force. I enjoy many aspects of the military but periodically imagine whether or not I could make a decent living to support my family working for myself on my own terms, which is probably why I'm drawn to real estate.

Neither my wife nor I have ever owned any property. Our current plan is to save enough for closing costs on a home for ourselves to live in. We hadn't seriously discussed real estate investing at all until just a couple days ago when I found biggerpockets.com. Since then I have become very interested in learning the various ways real people earn real money dealing with properties. I am a skeptical penny-pincher by nature, and imagine the market in California may offer its own unique set of challenges in real estate.

If I have to choose which types of investing interest me so far, they would be buy and hold, and possibly rehabbing. I am also intrigued by the success stories I've read about mobile homes (maybe because the admission fee is lower than "normal" properties), but I know absolutely nothing about those.

-Jay