New member - Columbus, Ohio

[Carlos Mezquita]

Hello everyone! I´m 25 years old, originally from Mexico City, but living in Columbus Ohio since 2016 due to a job relocation. I have a bachelor's degree in systems engineering and a MBA. Currently working a full time job on a supply chain company in Columbus, Ohio. Actively looking to learn and start investing on Real Estate in order to get an early retirement (stop working for a company and spend my time and money on my own business). I have very basic real estate experience at the moment. I guess as many of you I started a couple of years ago with "Rich dad poor dad" and from there I have been trying to run out from the rat race. On November 2016 I attended one of this guru weekend workshops and taking out the fact that they try to sell you a "magic formula" to get rich with just little effort and paying them 50K, I think it was a good introduction to what real estate investing is, get to know some vocabulary and a better idea of how the business works. After attending to the workshop I decided to research a little bit more about RE and I found this awesome site called BiggerPockets, in which I have found a lot of interesting forums, webinars and podcasts. My real estate goals at the moment look like these... 2017 - Learn as much as possible about real estate market on my area, raising money and exit strategies. 2018 - Have a detalied real state business plan and do my first investment. 2019 and beyond - Spend a big amount of time and money working to get a monthly income of 5K on real estate investments. I´m currently looking for a mentor to guide my real estate experience on the greater Columbus area. My main interest at the moment is the buy and hold strategy, so most likely I would like to connect with people already making some money of rental properties, but I´m always open to learn different strategies. In reward, my mentor will get my commitment of about 10 to 15 hours a week of hard work on helping get and analyze deals by performing some time consuming tasks that could be delegated to me so I can learn about the business while I help someone else grow your business.