Former Bay Area appraiser interested in investment

[Luke Gresser]

My name is Luke Gresser.  I spent the last year doing appraisal work for a tax firm in San Francisco.  I am interested in investing in single-family and multi-family rentals in San Francisco and the East Bay.  I am also moderately interested in the same property class in Phoenix, Seattle, and Buffalo, New York.

 I live in a really nice apartment.  The area around me is improving and I became interested in what it would take to buy my building.  The more I researched the project the more interested I became in investment real estate.  I am joining this forum to learn as much as possible before making my first purchase and to meet like minded investors in the Bay Area.  In the future I would also like to invest in other forms of passively managed income properties, such as storage units.

I worked as an analyst doing appraisal at a property tax firm.  I have experience appraising high valued homes/land, hotels, storage units, and primarily offices.  I have done everything from a single unit rental for 700k to buildings in the low 9 figures; but most of the properties were in the 5 - 50 million dollar range.

I am no longer employed by them and now just do some appraisal in my free time.  I am excited to meet people and learn from the community :)