Interested and Excited from Boston, MA

[Shane Skowyra]

Hi All!

I stumbled upon the BP podcast on iTunes a while ago and have been listening to episodes as much as possible. I have to say it is GREAT and I am learning so much. 

I consider myself a future investor that has limited real estate experience. I have always been interested in real estate and am so excited I found this community. 

I have various experiences in real estate investing. I flipped a house with my father, but this was about 8 years ago when I was only 20 and I did not appreciate what we were doing. I was just looking forward to the pay check at the end. I learned a lot from the experience but I wasn't mature enough to really understand what it was we were doing and how we could have leveraged this into future projects. 

I am now a CPA, I work full time for a large corporation, but I also have a side job bookkeeping for a family which owns multiple properties in the Boston area. The properties are mixed with residential and commercial tenants and we are currently about to break ground on another 42 unit apartment complex with retail on the ground floor. I enjoy this side job much more as I have a passion for accounting and real estate.

From these experience I have learned about real estate but I was never sure how to get started for myself. It appears that I have found a good start here with the BP community. 

As I said, I consider myself a future investor. My next step is to develop a timeline, but my ideal track would be to buy a multi-family (4 unit or smaller) and use it a my primary residence also for a few years and then acquire more similar properties in the future. 

I also have a lot of interest in spinning off my CPA and tax knowledge into a property management company. 

I am very excited to begin using BP and learning as much as possible. 

Thanks!

Shane

[Shaun Reilly]

Hi Shane, welcome to BP.

This is a great place to learn. Make sure to listen to all the BP podcasts, read the articles on the main blog and be active in these forums to learn a ton very quickly about any topic in real estate you want to know more about.

This is also a great place to meet people that can be assets to your business. Lots of great connections all over but we also have a very strong and active contingent here in MA on here so make sure to find them (Set up some keyword alerts like Ann said to find out about local topics) and get connected.

Besides doing that on here make sure to get out to some of the many local investor events we have.  As Ann mentioned there is the Boston AREIA and since she doesn't toot her own horn the Black Diamond event she hosts in Waltham (2nd meeting in Worcester) is as good of an event as you will find around, well probably anywhere.  Lots of other ones too.  I tend to go north and do the NEREIA in Chelmsford and @Justin Silverio 's quarterly meetup in Woburn.  There are a few other ones around the North Shore too.  If you are more of a Southerner lots of things options that side of the city too.