New California Investor

[Jeff Hunter]

I am looking to get started in buy and hold investments and am looking to grab all the information I can to better educate myself. Interested in connecting with private money lenders, portfolio lenders and turn key investors.

[Paul Timmins]

@Jeff Hunter

Welcome take full advantage of the BP resources.

Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthere

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

Download BP's newest book here some good due diligence and step by step what happens in a REIA meeting 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