Newbie from Pittsburgh Pa

[Laura Srocki]

Hi everyone,

 I'm so thankful i found BiggerPockets and for all the great info and support here! So I'm from Pittsburgh, have zero experience, I clean house for a living and a weekend warrior on the weekends. I'm 53, happily married wife and mother of seven and seven grandkids!  I'm at a crossroads and i need a change as well as a path to retirement. I was seriously considering making my solo cleaning biz into a real cleaning company. Listened to a lot of podcasts joined a facebook group and started loosing sleep over it! yikes! i really started hating the idea. then one day i heard someone say something about being passionate about your business or your entrepreneurial dreams, and i said to myself, i should flip a house! I've always wanted too but never thought i was possible, and i could get excited about that! so then i started searching on google and youtube and found BP. now my goals are maybe some flipping, and rental properties. just started listening to Brandon Turners book on the subject today while i was cleaning, it's awesome! So my goals for this year are to keep listening, reading ( got both J Scott's books too) webinars, REIAs , maybe get my real estate license and find a mentor, maybe find my first deal. I'm really looking forward to meeting up and finding real estate investors in the burgh and getting a grip on exactly where to start and making a solid plan. 

[Susan Parker]

Hi Laura,

welcome to BP, it is an AWESOME site with really terrific people willing to help out!  I'm 54, started in RE at 52 and have done six flips.  This year i'm planning to add a few rentals and do more flips.  I'm about 2 hours west of Pittsburgh and get out there about one a month to see my niece who is a student at Univ of Pitt.  I'm also working on my RE license, but you definitely dont need it to get started.  Read everything you can here, listen to the podcasts, and ask questions.  You can do this!!!  good luck!