Newbie from Ocean Springs, Mississippi

[Ryan Reaux]

Hey BP! My name is Ryan Reaux and I'm a complete newb to real estate investing. I've been listening to the Bigger Pockets podcast for about 4 months. Binge listening to the show and have learned a lot from all the interviews but have loads to learn! I have a beautiful young family. Smokin hot wife (inside and out) Katherine, an excited, creative 7 year old son Kaden, and a 6 month stud of a son Roman. I'm heavily involved in my local church New Life Family Church. I play the drums on the worship team! I currently am on a 3-5 year transition of taking over my Dads commercial communications company. I managed a well known restaurant Newks for 5 years and I'm licensed in life insurance and mutual funds. I have been interested in real estate for about 3 years. Ever since I began to look for a home for our family is when I began to think about possibly fix and flipin to buy, repair, rent, repeat. ALL THAT SAID to say I'm looking forward to networking and learning here from all the knowledge and wisdom from everyone here. Thanks Y'all! Ryan

[Paul Timmins]

@Ryan Reaux

Welcome. Fill in the foundation below.

Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthere

Check out BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide - A fantastic free book that walks through many of the key topics of real estate investing.

Check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast - A weekly podcast with interviews and a ton of great advice. And you get the benefit of having over 100 past ones to catch up on.

Locate and attend 3 different local REIA club meetings great place to meet people gather resources and info. Here you will meet wholesalers who provide deals and rehabbers (cash buyers). Find them through Google and meetup.com

Two Great reads, I bought both J. Scott The Book on Flipping Houses, The Book on Estimating ReHab Costs http://www.biggerpockets.com/flippingbook

Download BP’s newest book here some good due diligence in Chapter 10. Real Estate Rewind Starting over

http://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/brandonatbp/file/real-estate-rewind-a-biggerpockets-community-book

Good Luck

Paul