New Member from Southwest Washington

[Brock Lile]

Hello everyone....

A short rundown of who I am and why I'm here....

My name is Brock, at 20 (2007) I landed a blue collar 85k job. The culture was big trucks, big houses and work work work to pay pay pay. I joined that lifestyle.

At 21 (november 2008) I made a bad purchase.... a mobile home on 5 beautiful acres down a private road. My plan was to tear the mobile home down within 5 years and build a new home.

My 20's happened and I was too busy screwing off. I couldn't save a penny to save my life. Nothing in the bank, big diesel truck payment and a mortgage on a house that had no value after the '08 crash.

8 years later, here I am at 29. Finally pulled my head out, almost have all of my debts paid down to nothing (one car loan at $5,600 0%), no credit cards, ready to change my life focus to investments instead of consumption.

My current position is that I'm now making about $110k, 29 years old, getting married next summer but i still have this monkey of a mobile home and acerage on my back that I'm not sure I'm above water on yet. The good news is the Portland, Oregon market is on fire and moving my direction, so I may be able to get rid of the property with a new house sitting on it.

I'm very excited to learn this real estate investing game now that I've done everything wrong I possibly could in the past 8 years.

I'm excited and looking forward to the new direction and knowledge this forum provides.

Have a great day