New from Chicago suburbs

[Tony L.]

Hi,

My name is Tony and I am from the Chicago suburbs.  I am just getting started in real estate, don't own anything as of yet.  My wife and I have been reading a lot of books in addition to BP for the last couple months and are looking to get involved with real estate investing in the next few months.  

We both have full time jobs and I travel quite a bit for work.  Our long term goal is to buy and hold both multi and single family homes.   Short term, we are looking to make our first purchase a 2-4 unit multi-family owner occupied and stay in it for a few years.  We are looking primarily in the west and southwest suburbs of Chicago (Downers Grove, La Grange, Western Springs areas).  Our plan is to invest while keeping our full time jobs. 

I came across Bigger Pockets while searching through podcasts and have gotten so much out of them and the site already.