New member from Birmingham, AL / Dallas, TX

[Beau Turner]

Hi, I’m Beau Turner from Birmingham, Alabama, and I’m a brand new real estate investor. I’m 18 and my entire immediate family uses real estate as an investment/extra source of income. I just got into it a bit earlier than most. My home market is Birmingham, Alabama, but I am moving to Dallas, TX for college at SMU, so most of my deals will be there for the next few years, or even longer if I decide to live there. I mostly deal in rental properties and as a distressed property hunter, but that is a very unfair description since I have been in real estate less than a year. I’m eager to learn and my end goal is to be completely supported by real estate to the point where my life is “job optional”. I found BiggerPockets because of a post on the real estate subreddit (reddit.com/r/realestate) and I’m just looking to get a good start in the real estate market while I’m young and teachable. My first question to the BiggerPockets community is this: is the pro upgrade really worth it for someone like me?