New Member from Northeast, PA (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area)

[Alan Petriello]

Hi everyone,

I decided today it was finally time to take the plunge and create an account after admiring Bigger Pockets for a while now. The podcasts have been great to listen to and forums very informative in answering a lot of the question that come to me after listening to a pod.

Right now, I’m a Data Analyst at a local insurance company and I’m pursing my MBA at night. In fact it was the speaker at my entrepreneurship class Wednesday night that motivated me to get started.

I’m not exactly sure what I want to do in real estate yet and I’m still researching what would work best in my area. My initial thoughts were to maybe do fix-and-flip to build up enough cash to acquire some rental properties. If there anyone active in Northeast PA that has some advice on what strategies they feel would or would not work in this area. I’d really appreciate any advice they can offer.

Thanks everyone and I look forward to being able to contribute to this community anywhere I can!