Nice to meet you all! From Hartford, Connecticut.

[Steven Valencia]

Good morning/afternoon depending where you are, my name is Steven Valencia and I'm happy to be here! I'm new to the goal of becoming a real estate investor and hope to learn a lot from this forum along with the veterans that have been in my shoes. I've been doing a lot of reading to get more familiar with terms such as wholesaling, hard money lenders and other concepts so any book recommendations that can supplement the the information I get from here would be appreciated! I'm aiming to buy my first property by the end of this year (not sure which type first) and hope to add at least one more each year following the hopeful success of my first. My financial aim is to hit $80,000 a year as a minimum and to build on that every year through reinvesting in real estate. My long term goal is to hit $1,000,000 minimum sitting in my savings account. Of course if I could make $1,000,000 a year I'd love to but trying to be realistic in starting thoughts haha. I came to join BiggerPockets when I tried to find ways to learn more about real estate. I saw this pop up in an online search and saw all the motivating and helpful people and fell in love with the community from the outside, and now I want to be a part of it all. Thank you for having me here, I hope we can all work well together and that I can learn a lot from you all.