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Newbie from Portland, OR
Hey folks!
Newbie/future investor here. I actually live in McMinnville, Oregon but I work as an
HVAC/R tech in Portland so I spend a lot of time on the road inadvertently driving for dollars. I've been to a couple REIA meetings in my area and was pleasantly surprised by the warm and friendly greeting I received. I can't wait to attend more. I found biggerpockets.com through the podcast. Love those guys.
Anyway, short term goal is fix and flips via the BRRRR method and long term goal is buy and hold on multi-families. I just figured out how to find probate estates through my county circuit court as well as finding absentee owners via the tax assessors office website. I guess my next step is to put together a direct marketing campaign, secure financing, etc.
I'm really excited/anxious/nervous to see how the challenges that follow, play out and I'm looking forward to getting to know as many of you as I can and hopefully adding value when and where I can. Cheers from wine country!!!
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Welcome to BP! Sounds like you have a good idea of where you want to start. I look forward to reading about your success.
Best of luck,
Pete