Intro from Chicago - Ohare area

[Sofia G.]

Hello BP community. Sofia Gonzales here from Chicago Ohare area, my main focus is NW side Chicago SFRs. Just recently shifted from my 17yr corp sales journey to the REI world. Non of that journey was related to real estate but have always had the passion.

I'm currently building my team, thankfully with the help of a few BP members. Again, much appreciated. I'm very excited and very cautious to make sure I'm doing everything right from the start. I've gone through my Real Investing course, I've utilized all the helpful posts on the forums and resources here on BP. -- Thank you all for sharing. I've been on all the other REI forums out there and have gained vast knowledge from them as well but I must say..... joining BP just felt like home. :)

I'm just barely gettin my feet wet, I've only made a couple of offers so far, sfr wholesale deals but I'm looking forward to contributing as well, so please reach out to me if there's anything I can do to help.

Prosperous investing to everyone!

Sofia

[Elizabeth Colegrove]

Welcome to Biggerpockets!

We are buy and hold investors. Our speciality is class A rentals that we self-manage long distance. We got started and still acquire houses through personal properties turned rentals as we are very transient (Navy). While we still have moments we have had to get really good at our systems and efficiencies. Now that we have a strategy and business model it has been going very well. This has allowed us our W2 incomes to leverage the real estate. We live off of one salary and invest the other. 

This is a great site because there are tons of different "Strategies". We are buy and hold, others are wholesalers, bird dog, flippers etc. Look around the blogs, forums and listen to the podcasts. If you see a post you enjoy check out the persons signature. Many of us including myself talk about our strategies, styles, niches and business model on our website. So definitely check that out as it is an amazing additional resource. For example, my blog is about while working full time, buy and hold investing, 0% Down Rentals, Personal Properties turned rentals, Long distancing investing, self-managing 3,000+ miles away.

Look forward to seeing you around! PM me if I can help! :)