New Member Into - Mesa, AZ

[Richard Lorenzen]

BP -

I am a new member from the Phoenix area and currently reside in the east valley. I heard about BP from a real estate buddy of mine. I started my professional career in project management for a large commercial general contractor and am now a project manager for a commercial investor/developer. While I've learned a ton though my professional career thus far I'm dying to do something on my own. My long term goal is to own cash flowing real estate: SFRs, mulit's, and hopefully eventually commercial, but I have to start small. I have residential rehabber contacts, I have access to funds, I just need to find deals. My only complaint about the podcasts (although they are awesome!) is that almost everyone on the podcasts who has grown their portfolio rapidly did it during the downturn because they could pluck deals off the MLS. You can't do that in Phoenix anymore. I'm looking to meet people who I can learn from to find deals. I would of course be willing to partner with anyone who has a deal and needs capital, a contractor or some other value I can hopefully bring to the table. I'm going to start going to the local REIA that meets at Celebrity Theater every month beginning in May. Any other suggestions to find Phx deals would be welcomed!