New Member from Lincoln, Illinois (Central Illinois)

[Andrew Meister]

Hello everyone! I am a new member located in Lincoln, Illinois focusing on real estate opportunities in Central Illinois. I am 28 years old, and live in Lincoln with my wife and two children. I am a 2010 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

We live in a pretty rural area (farming community), but we are within about 45 minutes to 5 cities of 100,000 people.

I became interested in real estate immediately after college. My wife (then girlfriend) and I purchased our first home in 2012 with the intent to flip it. In 2014 we purchased our 2nd home with the intent to live-and-flip, while renting out our 1st home. We have been able to build some decent equity in these, as we completed most of the work ourselves. I received my real estate broker's license at the beginning of 2016, and we bought our first real flip in May of this year. 

I am a property claims adjuster with a large company, but my goal is to get involved in real estate investing, and quit my job! Obviously, I have to get a little deeper in REI before making this move, but its a goal!

Once this flip is complete, I would like to start getting into multifamily properties, while still flipping or wholesaling if the situation is right. Looking forward to the information that is available here at BiggerPockets! And I love the podcasts!