Cheyenne WY new hopeful investor seeking local mentor

[Collette Douglas]

Hello BP community! I'm thrilled to be joining your ranks and excited to receive your comments and suggestions via this delightful forum. I am a stay at home mom of four (soon five) kiddos and wife of an active duty airman currently stationed in the Cheyenne WY area. Opportunities seem to exist here for rental properties as well as fix and flips, and there doesn't seem to be much competition (yet?). We finance our current home through a nice VA loan, but I feel house poor and want to downsize. It is our hope that the sale of this house will net some kind of positive return and we will be able to seek out our next home as a fix and flip or buy and hold multi family using another VA loan. I am fairly handy and have tackled many renovations and improvements in this and our last home, and we have made a profit on the first home we ever bought and sold (it was the only other home we owned prior to our current home). We are aiming to sell this home after living here just over a year.

Are there any local folks with investing experience in the Cheyenne community? Being that we are military transplants, we don't know the area all too well and want to make good investment decisions based on the more desirable neighborhoods. I wouldn't know the first thing about being a landlord (and frankly the idea turns my husband off), so if we pursue that route I would need guidance on where and how to proceed here. I can offer my passionate enthusiasm, dedication, research, and creative problem solving design solutions in a real estate venture. I hope to potentially partner with someone seeking a safe and profitable market opportunity utilizing my local presence and renovation skills. Please feel free to contact me via email directly. As this is my first public post I am reluctant to give out my personal cell phone number, but would be happy to provide it via email or personal message.

Thanks for taking the time to read through this post! I appreciate your replies in advance. I wouldn't know much without this community of like-minded folks!