Investor from New Mexico

[Jeremy Garcia]

Hello all, I am a 30 year old investor who is seeking to retire at 45...or earlier. ..through rental property investing.  My goal is to acquire 15-24 properties in the next 15 years to replace my income and be financially free.  Upon retirement...seeing as to how people say you get bored if you don't have something to do...I plan on having my own property management company or be a General Contractor in the rehabilitation of homes.  I really enjoy orchestrating contractors on projects and mainly have this experience through my occupation as a Civil Engineer.  I want to apply this experience to orchestrating contractors to fix my rental properties. 

I have two rental properties. ..one of which I just finished rehabbing. I greatly enjoyed hiring out most of the work and would like to get to the point where I am not doing any work. ..other than the final detail work. 

My next property is going to be four plex and I plan on using a hard money lender/private lender but I have no contacts because I have not really started networking.  I am excited to try this method of using someone else's money instead of my own.  

Any other fellow New Mexicans aspiring for early retirement?  I would love to collaborate and plan retirement with like minded individuals.  I can talk anyone's ear off on retirement and investing :)  Although I am not as deeply vested in real estate as many others here on Bigger Pockets...I have the knowledge and wherewithal to achieve my goal.  My wife has been very patient with listening to my obsession with early retirement,  investing and real estate but I would like to share my passion with more like-minded individuals.  I truly believe in the notion of. .."you are as successful as the people you associate with the most"...or something like that :)

I look forward to networking with others and learning from other people's experience.