Newbie from Deerfield, IL / San Francisco Bay Area

[Tiffany Shan]

Hi! Newbie originally from Deerfield, IL, currently living in SF. I've got 2 goals for my time in Bigger Pockets:

1. My family lives in Deerfield & has one rental property (condo) in the Chicagoland area that's done really well for us. We'd like to explore further investments; we're all really new to real estate and got really lucky with our first purchase, so we're trying to be more intentional with future ones. Aiming to deploy between $50K-$80K and trying to figure out how to best do this, ideally in the Chicago area as family is very nervous about out of state :)

2. I work for a sort of research group (hence my choosing the "virtual assistant" label, though that's not quite accurate, currently exploring novel SFR financing techniques. Have learned a lot from reading these forums and excited to try and contribute more!