Ready for a change in Arizona!!

[Evan Bell]

Hello to everyone here on BP!!  My name is Evan and I am currently living in Maricopa, Arizona which is just a little south of Phoenix.  I am a poker dealer, but about to get out of that industry as I have just finished up with tech school for HVAC/R.  I am planning on making HVAC/R my day job for the next few years while investing alongside it.

I am a brand new member as of a few days ago.  I have listened to quite a few of the BP Podcasts since finding it about a week ago, and am sharing the episodes like crazy with my wife.  I literally can't get enough of the show, it's great!  I was actually looking for self improvement and motivational podcasts to add to my playlist and ended up stumbling across BP.  

I have a little experience investing, but have been out of the game for quite a while and am more ready than ever to get back into it again!  My wife, Kat, and I, along with my late father flipped a house in Phoenix about 5 years ago, which ended up profiting us about $25,000 which was split in half between myself and Kat, and my father.  I won't go into details of the flip in my intro post, but let's just say that there was A LOT of head butting as my father was supposed to solely be the lender, while letting Kat and I do the rest of the work.  Many mistakes were made, budgets were definitely ignored, and timelines were.....well, what's a timeline??  Despite all that, we still ended up turning a fairly respectable profit for our first deal.  The plan was to do many more deals like this, with the necessary adjustments being made, of course, but plans changed and we ended up not doing any more deals after this one was done. 

Being new parents to a beautiful baby girl, Kat and I are much more focused on providing security for our daughter and the best life possible for her. We know that REI is the perfect way to accomplish this goal.

Right now, our goals include using an inheritance from my grandmother to jumpstart our investing once again.  We want to flip houses and use that cash to invest in more flips, but also use it to slowly build up our "hold-folio" for the long term.  

I look forward to meeting other members and networking in order to learn as much as I can.  I've been lurking around the forums reading A LOT the last few days, and thought that I should make my intro post and let you guys know that I'm here and ready to get going once again!!