New Member from the SF Bay Area

[Dennis Cobos]

Hi everyone!

My name is Dennis, I am 26 years old working in the product management and engineering side of IT in the San Francisco Bay Area. I recently became really interested in real estate and found out about BiggerPockets so I knew I had to start here. I would love to learn from everyone here and utilize the tools and resources that are available through this site. 

I know that I will learn so much more through the site, but what I am interested in currently is buying properties to rent, and flipping houses. Also, something that came into my head recently was to be able to buy a house in Guatemala City, Guatemala (I am originally from there) to rent it out, or buy a house in Antigua, Guatemala which is a really popular tourist city, and have it as a seasonal rental property, possibly utilizing Airbnb. If anyone has done such things in other countries, or even in Guatemala itself, I would love to get advice on how to go about making that possible and what I need to educate myself in (laws, etc.). 

If there are any real estate meet-ups in the East Bay of the SF Bay Area that anyone here might be a part of, I would love to join a group like this and surround myself with other like-minded people. I am very open minded and very willing to learn. 

Looking forward to meeting great people through here!

[Alex Velazquez]

@Dennis Cobos welcome to BP. Im also a newbie here myself. You came up with a really good idea of being vacation property in other countries. Good luck and I'm sure someone here has done it before.