New to Real Estate Investing

[Matthew Brant]

Good morning, everyone, 

I'm Matt, 30 years old, born and raised in New Jersey. Real estate has always fascinated me—I've spent hours researching, reading articles, and watching videos about it. My ultimate goal is to create generational wealth for my family and myself. While I've dabbled in investing through stock trading and Roth IRAs, real estate has been a long-standing passion, but I have always been nervous about pulling the trigger. Purchasing our first home three years ago with my wife has sparked my desire to delve into real estate investing. By the end of next year, I aim to make my first investment. I was introduced to this community by a co-worker who shares my interest in real estate. My focus is on owning a few rental properties or vacation homes, while my wife dreams of tackling fixer-uppers and designing homes—something I'm eager to support and learn alongside her. With her goal of being able to build and design our dream home, I hope to one day make it come true. Our investment location isn't initially fixed, except for potential flipping projects that we'd prefer to handle in NJ for hands-on involvement. I'm primarily seeking mentorship or guidance as I embark on this journey into real estate investing. Finding the best places where I can get the best ROI. I am glad that I found this forum, and I look forward to talking and meeting with fellow real estate investors and learning from you all.

[Shawn Mcenteer]

Hi @Matthew Brant welcome to BP. I live in New Jersey as. From you brief story you sounds a bit like me when i first starting investing. IRA and Stocks is where I started as well. Once me and my wife purchased our first property we go the itch. Fast forward a decade later and all the projections we had for our IRA at age 65 my wife and I achieved at ages 35 through real estate. NJ has been a great place to invest and BP has been hands down one of the accelerators of our personal REI journey.