Completely New to this in Southfield, MI

[Mark R.]

Hello everyone,

my name is Mark from Southfield, MI. I'm in my early 40s and I'm totally new to real estate investing, but I'm trying to learn everything I can about multi-family buy and hold to create passive income. My goal is to earn enough monthly passive income to be financially free in 5-7 years.

I'm devouring books, podcasts, articles, blogs, forums, etc. to educate myself enough to finally buy something. I deeply educated myself about 11 years ago, but fear kept me from ever doing anything. I chickened out.

I have a large family with teenage kids and therefore feel like I can't just live on Ramen noodles to build up savings. I have too many mouths depending on me to feed them. However, I'm upbeat, full of life, and almost always find something to laugh about. I'm a really happy guy. :)

In any event, I'm happy to be here and hope to do my first deal by January 2015 without chickening out this time. Yikes!

I look forward to talking to all of you,

Mark