Hello my fellow BP peeps

[Dave Jeltema]

I am  real estate agent in Utah, whom is focusing on buy and hold, with the occasional flip.

I was on BP a while back and have listened to most of Brandon's podcasts.

I have read cover to cover 

The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down

The Book on Flipping Houses

The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs

 I have listened to the entire 

The 2012 Bigger Pockets Summit - Conference Audio

My goal is to build a JV relationship with a investor to get started.

Hard work does not scare me!

If you have some advice fro me please follow me and "let me have it".

[Douglas Larson]

Hello @Dave Jeltema

Welcome to BP! Great job reading books and listening to "Brandon's podcasts." (Oh, you may want to give some credit to Josh Dorkin as well . . . He's just the owner, CEO and brilliant mastermind of all things BP.)

"Buy and hold with an occasional flip" is a great strategy, along with "house hacking." You sound like you are on the right track and a very similar one to me and many other investors I know.

You asked for advice . . . Local networking is key to success in this biz so I would recommend some of the real estate lunches and meet-ups in the Salt Lake area. Go to SLREIA.com and poke around. There are some other meet-ups and clubs too. I would stay clear of the ones that charge big up front fees. They won't deliver any more knowledge or results than you can get with BP and a few good relationships.

Finally, as you probably already know, the BP site is huge and already has almost every answer to every real estate question in the form of  and . Have fun!!!