Introducing myself

[Izumi Tanaka]

Hello Folks,

I am a newbie in Los Angeles, and this is my very first post! I awoke to the concept of REI a few months ago, discovered BP for a little over a month, became a pro a couple of weeks ago, have been reading, listening, watching lots of materials here (which by the way are awesome!), and went to a local meeting last weekend. I'm pretty shy, so I haven't participated in the forum yet, but here I go!

I've been around real estate business for almost 17 years as my husband is a real estate agent for almost 30 years, but believe or not we never considered investing per se until we had a rude awakening recently. Don't ask me why. I've purchased properties 2 times in my life. The first one I ended up selling at a loss simply because I was young and didn't have the perspective. The second one is a vacation home we bought in 2005, and the value has not come back to what we bought it for while it is generating some revenue from vacation rentals.

My primary interest is flipping as I'm very much into designs and architecture, but my long term goal is to have multi-family units to generate cash flow so we can retire and do the things we're passionate about such as traveling and teaching.

I look forward to connecting with peeps on BP!