New Member from San Diego, California

[Jarod Bona]

My name is Jarod Bona and I am a real-estate investor in the San Diego, California area. I am also an attorney and am in the process of obtaining my real-estate license. 

I recently discovered the Bigger Pockets website and podcasts and look forward to learning and interacting with the great community here. The podcasts are fantastic.

My wife and I so far have focused on flips and rentals and have properties in both Minnesota (our original hometown) and San Diego. 

With regard to law, I am a 2001 Harvard Law graduate and have spent most of my career in giant law firms in California, Minnesota, and Washington, DC. I left one of them about six months ago to start my own practice (http://www.businessjustice.com/). My focus is (most relevant here) real-estate litigation, as well as business litigation, appellate, and antitrust. If you have any interest in antitrust, check out my blog (http://www.theantitrustattorney.com/). Here are my entries involving antitrust and real estate: http://www.theantitrustattorney.com/category/real-...

Starting my own practice is the first step in my plan to move more toward real-estate and investing. I am transitioning my legal practice in the direction of real estate and obtaining my real-estate license with the idea that I can help clients as both an agent (and eventually broker) and attorney in more complex transactions. We believe that this approach has synergies with our own real-estate investing.