Greetings from Upstate New York (Rochester Area)

[MJ Calabrese]

I just wanted to take a moment and introduce myself as well thank the website creator and mods for their great work here, that I'm elated to have discovered this wonderful site. If you live close by or are interested in hearing about the area please feel free to contact me! I wish you all the best in your professional endeavors and a very Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukkah, Winter Solstice, or whatever else you may choose to celebrate. Cheers!  

[Elizabeth Colegrove]

Welcome to Biggerpockets!

Small world, I graduated from RIT, LOVE Rochester! I loved the snow but loved being a college student with no shoveling responibsilities although 55 in the winter as "cold" is great too!

You found the place to be! You will find no better place to build a solid platform than bigger pockets. The one thing we all agree up on is that we invest in real estate. Beyond that everyone is different.

We are buy and hold investors who invest in class A properties self-managing from a distance while working full time. We have a very specific business plan and we buy very specific houses. This allows us to meet our long term goals while self-managing and working full time. Our ultimate goal is to use our real estate cash flow to fund early retirement in 15 years. So we live frugally allow us to invest in real estate. Other people use wholesaling or flips to fund their rentals :)

I highly recommend you also check out- the blogs, forums and listen to the podcasts. If you see a post you enjoy check out the persons signature. As many of us have created resources around our niche (websites, blogs, etc) so checking out the signature is a great to get more information. Make sure you don't miss out on networking is by filling out your signature, profile and pming people with questions.

Look forward to seeing you around!