New to BP: Investing in Indy, Living in Portland, OR metro

[Chad Bartlett]

Hey all BP members, my name is Chad Bartlett.  I've been through the bad and the good with flipping just before the destruction of 2007/2008.  I'm more of a buy/fix/hold investor these days.  I have just one duplex in Indianapolis right now, but I'm hoping to buy more either SFRs or multifamilies--still deciding.  Will I BRRRR, partner,  or what?  I don't know yet.  Looking into what is possible with private money and/or hard money right now.  

As a side note, my regular day is spent teaching English at a community college just outside Portland, OR.  So, yes, that means I am not currently investing where I live.  I guess I got the real estate bug from my dad who was a broker in a small area in Illinois for about 40 before retiring.  I hope to retire south of the border in about 10 years, so at 55.
 

Good luck to all of you, and I can't wait to meet you.