Aloha from the Big Island

[Cedrick Ondra]

Aloha everyone!

I want to start off by saying how grateful I am to have found this site. I've already participated in a couple of the webinars, and read a lot of the discussions, and it's great to have so many people willing to share their knowledge and provide support to each other. So thank you all already!

Now to introduce myself: My name is Cedrick and I live with my wife, Mary, on the Kona side of the beautiful Big Island of Hawai'i. I have tons of real estate experience, and by tons, I mean absolutely none... 

My wife and I have talked about real estate investing, but never that seriously. Recently, we attended one of those free seminars where they sell you another weekend seminar where they try to sell you another bigger package for a ridiculous amount of money. We decided to invest in that first weekend seminar, and while I wouldn't do it again, I'm glad we made that investment because it did give me a basic knowledge of real estate investing, planted the seed for us, and kind of made me feel like, "Okay, now we've invested in it, so we have to make sure we do something with it." Truthfully, if I hadn't have gone to that, I don't think I would have even given real estate investing a second thought, at least not for a while anyway. Also, it is what led me here to Bigger Pockets, where I have already learned so much in just the last couple of weeks.

Our primary goal in real estate is to build a consistent cash flow for more financial stability, ensure our son's college will be able to get paid for, and ensure we have assets for retirement. (And so I can stop working two jobs...) Really what it comes down to, is ensuring that the family is taken care of.

I look forward to getting to know everyone here! This already seems like a really great community! So let me just say, "Nice to meet you all! And I look forward to seeing you around the message boards! Aloha!"