New investor from San Diego

[Anand S.]

Hello everyone,

I am Anand and live in San Diego. I have a background in engineering and MBA. My day job is to manage the engineering operations at a large technology company. I am really passionate about real estate and have spent a decent part of past 7-8 years reading here and there, than doing anything about it. I made the first jump this year, when I rented out my primary home in a good school district and moved up into a bigger place in the same zipcode. It has a decent cash-flow, but far less compared to the equity locked in that home when seen from mid-west or Florida kind of locations

I am still trying to refine my strategy as I get ready to make my next investment move by end of this year and hope to nail it through interaction with experts in this forum. At this point, I am prepared to invest $30-40k for a downpayment and torn between and still learning about 3 options - rehab/flip in San Diego, turnkey cashflow investment in Chicago/Indiana, Out of state rehab/flip.

This is really an incredible forum looking at the "ready to share knowledge" culture which further emphasizes in my mind that real estate is really not a zero sum game...

I look forward to connecting with folks here...