New member from Salem, OR

[Ryan Cash]

Good afternoon BiggerPockets!  My name is Ryan Cash and I am a 35 year old new investor from Salem, OR.  I am a high school teacher as well as a business owner.  I have been eager to get into real estate investing for many years but now is the time!  I have one young daughter and another on the way so my goals revolve around their future.  My wife and I are getting ready to close on our first foreclosure  through Homepath (that's been fun) but we are doing it and are going to live in it and eventually rent it.  

My goal is to buy 1 multi-family property this year here in Salem, OR and start our portfolio small. I have a goal of of owning 5 multi-family properties by the time I am 40 as well as renovate 1 house a year. Ultimately, my wife and I want the ability to retire young but more importantly, put a business in place that our daughters could take over way down the road. I have attended a Northwest REIA meeting and am looking forward to more of those to learn and meet people. I have listened to the BP Podcast for a couple months now as well as others and have read their guide to real estate for beginners and a host of other books.

I am an avid outdoorsman (hunitng/fishing), traveler (24 countries), and coach high school football. I am eager to continue to read here on bigger pockets in an effort to achieve my goals.  Specifically I am immersing myself wither literature pertaining to buy and hold and am striving to avoid analysis paralysis by offering soon on a property I have had my eye on and jumping in to the the business of having tenants.   

Thanks,

Ryan