New from Santa Cruz outside of San Francisco Bay Area

[Jason Kaye]

Hi BP community,

I'm Jason and I'm just getting started in the real estate world. I have aspirations to achieve financial independence through REI and all of my Google searches for educational info seem to ultimately lead me to BiggerPockets.com. I figured it was about time I introduced myself.

I am a front-end software engineer for a smaller tech company in the Bay Area where I build software for Credit Unions. My coding expertise is in html/css/javascript (specifically Angular) for those interested. I really enjoy my current career; however, I would like to take advantage of my stable employment and income to enter into the real estate investing world.

My goal is to achieve financial freedom through buy and hold investments in multifamily/small apartment complexes while working my main job. i am also interested in gaining domain-specific expertise in areas of real estate investing with the hopes of using my software background to build technology and solutions to better the real estate world.

I recently purchased my first owner-occupied home in Santa Cruz. I lover it! However, I have also realized that the size of the down payment, coupled with rents that barely (if it all) cover the monthly expenses for residential property in the Bay Area make it difficult to get into the buy and hold real estate game. As such I am interested in focussing on out-of-state investing. 

If you have made it this far, thanks for reading. I look forward to getting involved with the BP Community: hopefully forming partnerships, doing deals, sharing ideas and more with like-minded individuals.

-Jason

[Tatyana Shevnina]

Welcome to BP, @Jason Kaye!  It's a great place to learn and meet like-minded investors.

@Shane Pearlman's meet-up (along with many others throughout the Bay) just makes it all more real when you meet local investors you see online face-to-face and get some immediate feedback on ideas you have.

Good luck!