New Girl in Alexandria, VA

[Kayla Lyon]

Hi all!  After listening to a ton of the BP Podcasts, I'm finally doing what Josh keeps telling me to and posting an intro.  My name is Kayla Lyon and I just moved to Alexandria/Springfield from Hawaii.  I recently separated from the Navy and moved with my husband who is an active duty Marine now stationed at Quantico.  

I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to be when I grow up, but real estate has always been very interesting to me. I found BP and started listening to the Podcast while living in Hawaii, but with the outrageous market out there and impending move I decided to stay on receive mode until we got settled in Northern VA.

Flipping is something I think I'd really enjoy, but I love the long term passive income that buy and hold brings to the table.  The thing I'm struggling with the most right now is if real estate investing is something sustainable while moving around the country every few years.  I'm out, but my hubby is looking at another decade on active duty, barring unforeseen circumstances of course.  At that point we'd love for this business to become our primary source of income.

I don't have any real experience in real estate.  I've been a renter for many years, and we just bought our first house in Alexandria.  Reading books/articles and listening to the podcast makes it all seem fairly straightforward, but I know that's not actually true so I'm trying to learn as much as I can to take the first steps!