New to BP from West Boylston, MA | Central Mass

[Beverly Meola]

Hello all,

My name is Beverly Rogers.  I have worked in commercial property management since 2006 starting in Florida, where I'm from originally, and in Massachusetts since 2008 in the Boston area primarily.  I moved out to Central Mass a couple years ago while still commuting to Boston so I'm still not intimately familiar with this area.  My real estate experience is in managing Class A & B properties: high-rise laboratory, research parks, industrial parks, mid-rise office parks, office and industrial condominiums, and a corporate campus. A couple properties had underground and above ground parking structures.  Several were new construction.  My employers were always larger firms with highly specialized roles, so I wish I had better exposure to leasing, acquisition, and disposition transactions - I have some exposure but not the nitty gritty good stuff.  

There has been an entrepreneurial itch that I would never let myself scratch until this year when I started to put together a property management business.  The target market is mid-sized commercial and residential condominiums, commercial properties, and mixed-use properties in Central Mass.

I am a licensed Real Estate Salesperson in MA looking for a Managing Broker to gain experience in real estate transactions - preferably commercial, but deeper transaction experience of any kind would be sincerely appreciated.  I want to eventually obtain a broker's license. I am also looking for a mentor in running a property management business.  SCORE and the National Association of Professional Women were dead ends. 

My boyfriend and I decided we wanted to start investing in mixed use real estate and I picked up a BiggerPockets book.  We think we are set up pretty well to succeed - his family has a background in residential real estate, my family has a background in constructing residential real estate + my management experience.  But we have put investing on the backburner until we can figure out a few more things. I'm hoping to take the opportunity to gain experience in transactions and analyzing comps.  My endgame is still to buy and hold real estate, but my present goal is to grow this property management business.

Thanks!

Beverly