New investors from Connecticut

[Lorine Zdanowski]

Hello BP Colleagues!

My husband, Mark, and I are new RE investors in CT. We started our company, Plum Home Solutions, LLC in mid 2015! We are focusing on residential redevelopment projects in the Central CT area.

I currently work part-time with a national online curriculum company training teachers across the Northeast in the product, and my husband works full-time at ESPN in the IT Department.  We both have the goal of working our investment business full-time in the near future!

Our millennial son and recent UCONN grad, Eric Zdanowski, introduced us to Bigger Pockets when he recently found the community after beginning his own RE investment business!  I guess we are keeping it all in the family!!  Perhaps our daughter, Kendra, a business major at Bentley University might catch the "investment bug" down the road!

Meanwhile, we are looking forward to meeting other Bigger Pockets colleagues, as well as taking advantage of all of the great articles and advice posted here.  As we gain our own experience, we hope to share more of our story and lessons-learned with all of you!

Simply excited,

Lorine and Mark Zdanowski

[Paul Timmins]

@Lorine Zdanowski

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

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

You might consider Niche or Specialized Housing like student housing. Rents can be 2-4 times more. Remember you don't have to own a property to control it.

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