Hello - Beginner Chicagoland REI

[Steve Kim]

Hello BiggerPockets,

My name is Steve Kim. I’m a 32 year old working/living in the chicagoland area. I was born and raised in the north suburbs and currently residing in the west suburbs. I've always been interested in investing in real estate after reading "Rich dad, Poor Dad" and recently have been listening to the biggerpockets' podcasts. After listening to all the success stories, I have been re-invigorated to evaluate my life and where I want to be 10,20,30 years from now. 

My wife and I have a current home in the west burbs and currently in the process of researching real-estate to purchase our first piece of property. We've been utilizing biggerpockets' tools and have built our own excel spreadsheet to quickly analyze data-dump from mls reports. I am comfortable with research and analyzing the numbers, while she holds an IL real estate license. 

I want to thank the biggerpockets community for all the information that you guys are sharing and hope to gain experience so I may also contribute to this community. After listening to the 90 day challenge, I am preparing to get our first investment property by the end of this year and employ the BRRRR strategy.

Thanks,

Steve K.

[Chris Titcomb]

Congrats on the investment property goal Steve Kim - there’s certainly a ton of useful info on this blog to help educate you and give you the blueprint for employing the BRRRR strategy. And whenever you’re going to make one of the most important/expensive purchases of your life, it’s nice to know you have a collaborative environment here to ask questions and gain insight.