Newbie from Washington DC

[Whiticar Darvill]

Good Day everyone, I am Whiticar; I am retiring from active duty military (Air Force) and looking to start buying and holding properties in the DC area. I have been looking around on Bigger pockets for a month or so and do not see a ton of activity in my area (I might not be looking in the right areas of the site). The market is active here so someone has to be making money and finding deals. I don't have much experience, but I do plan on getting my realtors license late May and building my network. That said, I am not looking at making being a realtor my full time occupation. I would like to invest on the side while I leverage my military experience as a way to fund my initial investment opportunities.

My long term goal is to build up passive income to allow for more flexibility in my schedule. I like the area and feel that given the right deals, the DC market is a fantastic place to invest. In reality unless we move the federal government, there will always be people looking for places to rent/buy.

[Russell Brazil]

Originally posted by @Whiticar Darvill:

Russel, thank you. As I mentioned it might be that I’m not looking in the rights spots. When I search for a local forum I only see Baltimore or Pennsylvania. I have a key word alert in the marketplace for Washington DC or dc and have only receive one alert in the last week or so. It just seems that there is a lot of discussions for some areas like Texas but not here. Please let me know if I’m missing something.

 Consider setting up key word alerts for the names of the suburbs, the names of the DC neighborhoods, also be sure to have D.C. as well as DC.  My keyword alerts include Capital Hill, Capitol Hill (Spell it both correctly and incorrectly), Silver Spring, Rockville, Arlington, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, PG County, Arlington, Alexandria, Trinidad, Dupont, Logan, Columbia Heights, Gaithersburg, Fairfax and so on and so on.