Newbie from Vancouver WA ( Portland Metro area )

[Cristal Sanchez]

Hi all! As an agent here in Vancouver WA, I've learned to appreciate the value in investing in real estate. My husband and I married very young (19) and had our oldest daughter the following year. Since then, we've strived to maintain a strong family bond, while juggling work and higher education. Our schedule has always been at the mercy of our academics and jobs. Fortunately, my husband and I have always worked opposite schedules, and so it worked out great because we've never had to pay for daycare for our two girls. Now my husband is ready to focus more on his last two years of school and quit his repetative, dead-end job in hopes of attaining his career in Business Admin. We are ready for some more control and security for our future, without sacrificing our time with eachother like we have been. The market in Vancouver is great, and has plenty more to offer, which I'd like to tap into and get started with opportunities to learn about rental/investment properties.

I've been playing bp podcasts everyday!  My oldest daughter has even learned to ask permission while I'm listening to my show to get a quick yes for the sake of not being interrupted haha! 

I'm excited anand greatful for discovering bp :)

Cristal 

[Elizabeth Colegrove]

Welcome to Biggerpockets!

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 has a different niche!

We got married young at 22 and 23 :)  We have learned to invest without alot of resources. I didn't find bigger pockets till I was much further along in our investment. We learned to invest with litle down as personal property and rent them out when we were transferred. So there are lots of ways. Our goal is early retirement in 15 years.

 We are buy and hold investors who invest in class A properties self-managing from a distance while working full time. So we do work on furthering our careers. We live very frugally allowing us to live off of one income and save the other. We have further our career and used the W2 income to leverage our real estate portfolio.

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! Let me know if I can help! Good luck!!!