New member from Sacramento, California

[Preston Jackson III]

Hello BiggerPockets Community!

My name is Preston Jackson III, and I live in Sacramento, CA with my wife and three children.  My experience in real estate is purchasing our primary residence.  For work, I educate teachers of California about their pension and how it works. 

My initial real estate goals is to educate myself on the subject of real estate investing and to find an experienced mentor.  Also, I am interested in investing in multi-family (small) properties, but I am open to a great deal.  I came to join BiggerPockets from my sisters friend who also listens to the podcast and while I was listening to other real estate podcasts, BiggerPockets was frequently mentioned.

[Ian Dietler]

There are quite a few REIAs (Real Estate Investing Associations) in an around Sacramento. That is where I suggest starting. I just went to a great one last night that had about 105 people in various parts of the business.

I suggest that you go to the website meetup.com, create an account and search for "real estate". Make sure to search in Sacramento and other areas like Roseville, Rocklin, and Elk Grove. The one that I went to yesterday was the Roseville meet up hosted by David Oldenburg. 

Good luck,