Newbs from Prior Lake, Minnesota

[Bill Thompson]

Hello all!

My name is Bill Thompson and my fiance is Nancy Storlie.  Nancy currently works as a Financial Manager for a large corporation and I work as a Project Manager for a different large corporation.   Due to some disenfranchisement with our professions and a desire to expand to new income streams and build retirement investments, we are beginning down the path of Real Estate investment and house flipping.  

We are still very new to this concept and are in the information gathering phase.  We just attended a paid 3-day seminar for the Nick Vertucci Real Estate Academy and learned a little, but not nearly what we'd hoped.  We did NOT let them talk us into the "bus tour" and I did get Nick to refund our money for the seminar as it was more or less a waste of time, so now we're reading everything we can, watching pod cast's and talking to Realtor friends and some family who have made a life of flipping houses to gain any knowledge they can provide, and also engaging Bigger Pockets for advice.  We're open to any direction anyone is willing to give us as to how best to get started, financing, networking, incorporating, purchasing, contracts, negotiating, wholesaling, etc.  

Thanks in advance to anyone out there willing to respond and we look forward to participating with this group and also helping others once we get some experience under our belt.  

Bill