New to REI

[Ryan Stirling]

My name is Ryan Stirling and I live in Philadelphia, PA right now and am moving up to the Boston area very soon. I have been learning about REI for the past 8 months (reading books, talking with my uncle who is a realtor/appraiser/buy and hold investor).

In my mind, I’ve always wanted to be a buy and hold investor assembling a portfolio of properties over time. Recently, I have found out through others’ comments that renting a property and managing it is very intensive work. I am still very eager about doing it though.

I am also open to other areas of REI (REOs, wholesaling, short sales, etc.), but I think my overall goal is to buy and hold and develop streams of cashflow.

From suggestions from members of BP, I have started attending meetings a local REIA in Philadelphia and once I move I will be attending meetings at a local Boston REIA.

I have been reading threads and writing a few posts at BP for a few weeks now and I think everything here is great. I hope that I can get a lot of it this site and give a lot to this site.