Newbie from the Olympic Peninsula, WA

[Jeff Gingell]

Hey everyone, I'm a new prospective investor from Washington. So far, I've found a wealth of knowledge to which I must say "Thank You!" to everyone here just for being here. I've been on BP for about a week and realized I haven't introduced myself yet!

I am a diagnostic medical imaging technologist, own my own home (well, a mobile), with a nice-sized shop. I live with my wife Jamie, my daughter Taegen, and the family dog, Loki.  My wife and I are still deciding which type of investment to start with. Currently we own two neighboring parcels; the one on which we live, and one adjacent which is raw, flat, street-front land, each about 1.3 acres. My wife and I are looking at paying down all of our debt before investing, as we have more debt than we would like, and are both immersed in educating ourselves about the world of real estate.

I think we're both leaning towards buy and hold rentals. Fix and flip sounds/would-be amazing, and I think I have the hands-on skills to make it work well for me, but our market is very slow moving out here and I would like to maximize potential profit on a per-property basis because of the low volume potential. Well that's my thinking anyway, but I'm not completely opposed to fix-and-flip.

Anyways, that's a brief introduction on me and why I'm here, just trying to expand my REI knowledge base and meet some like-minded individuals