Builder & Investor in Uvalde, Texas

[Jason Moore]

I have spent the last 25 years in the commercial masonry business in the Midland/Odessa Texas area. The last 15 years I have added to that by getting involved in building & leasing commercial office/warehouse buildings in that same are. However, in 2013 my wife and I and 4 of our 5 kids bought a ranch in the Hill Country of Texas near Uvalde. I have a great general manager still running the masonry business back in Odessa and the commercial buildings are all leased out (triple net!) and I was able to buy two single family homes as rent houses, so now my family is at the ranch raising 30 buffalo, goats, chickens, horses!

Over the last two years I discovered I had essentially killed my kidneys by the long time over use of Advil and just last month had a kidney transplant. I tell all of you this because I used that time wisely to read and research all of the stuff I am interested in and construction & real estate are at the top of my list! I am very thankful for discovering Bigger Pockets. I tell others who don't know about it that it is a lot like Facebook but without all of BS! It is a focused community of those with great knowledge helping others with little knowledge and most importantly without talking down to them.

Now that the transplant is behind me I have decided to start looking at residential and commercial RE opportunities in Uvalde ( population about 15,000!). My thought before starting was "it's a small town how much opportunity could there really be"... Wow! I've already discovered not only what a great little town it is, with its little historical district, but I was told my real estate agent they have very little inventory of rent house available and are in desperate need.

I am truly impressed with the BP community and have already hired an asset protection attorney who is active on BP and was a guest on the podcast! So BP has already paid off for me! I am mostly self taught especially in real estate so I don't always know all of the lingo like more of the professional investors but I pledge to help out wherever I have knowledge that will help!