New Member in Huntsville, AL

[Matthew Mooney]

Good evening fellow real estate investors!

I'm Matt from Huntsville and am really thrilled to be part of the Bigger Pockets community. A friend recommended "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" to me in November and am now moving into the "Investor" sector. While tiling around a tub in our Master Bath, I was listening to Kiyosaki on YouTube the hands were too messy to try and stop the autoplay, this guy named Brandon Turner came on talking about evaluating rental properties and developing steady cash flow. For the next 35 minutes all the Tetris pieces of my mind fell into place. How has being a real estate investor never crossed my mind before? How has someone who works in program management never thought that well thought out systems could lead to investing success? Thank you Brandon for removing the scales from my eyes.

So here we are today, on the BiggerPockets site drinking the Kool-Aid, soaking it in, and building my own goals and strategies. Although not a player in making comments yet, many posts, blogs, and podcasts have helped accelerated my growth. Tomorrow I'm heading out to a local REI meet-up! This is all so far outside of my personality-type and m.o., but without change one cannot get better.

So all who have made it this far, I look forward to learning from your experiences and sharing anything I know or discover with the BP community, because someone just had the life changing REI revelation I had three months ago, and they need encouragement too.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there...so gotta run, there is progress to make!

- Matt.