Newbie from New York City

[Luke Mellon]

Hello BP!

My name is Luke Mellon. I live in NYC currently, however I am from Saratoga County in Upstate NY. I have zero background in Real Estate aside from the ~10 BP Podcasts I recently listened to that brought me to this Community.

I work full time as a Service Delivery Manager for Cisco System's where I manage an IT Professional Service's accounts for a large customer. I briefly lived in NC which is a possible market for me.

My goals for Real Estate are to use a buy and hold approach via purchases of multi-unit apartments. I have also been intrigued by wholesaling between buy and hold opportunities. 

I have a good amount of education left. While I finish reviewing the UBG I'd like to review possible markets to enter, narrow the options and research the market. After my education and as I become more familiar with a preferred market I will be reading my financials and required paper work.

I look forward to and help this Community can offer and the potential to network with folks in the NYC, Albany/Saratoga, and Raleigh/Durham areas.

Excited to be here! - Luke

[Paul Timmins]

@Luke Mellon

Welcome. Fill in the foundation below.

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

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

Consider checking out HUD homes for small multi's owner occupied gets first crack.

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