Greetings from Charlotte!

[Victor Alfonso]

Hello fellow BP'ers!

Time to check in! I've been prowling around BP for quite some time now and figured it was about time to make a profile and start networking! I absolutely love the wealth of knowledge on this site including the expert blog posts and the open forums. A little about myself:

I've been managing regional shopping centers for an international company for about five years now, so my bread and butter has been property management. I grew up in Southern Cal (born and raised in LA, went to college at UC Irvine and have managed malls in San Diego and LA). I took a career opportunity (with the same employer) in the Charlotte area and have been here for about a year and a half.

On the real estate investment side, I'm just starting to get my feet wet. I purchased a condo in downtown utilizing FHA (looking at it as an investment since I probably won't be in Charlotte long-term), and I recently networked with some people in Atlanta. I like a few of the opportunities that I've come across down there and recently entered escrow on a SFR property in Cobb County.

My goals are pretty simple - looking for great value in buy and hold properties while generating some extra cash via fix and flips in the Charlotte and Atlanta metro areas. I've been to HOTlanta 4 times in the past 4 weekends (all day trips) as I see a lot of opportunity there and am wanting to get as comfortable as possible with that market. Being that I'm in the property management business, I have some trustworthy, knowledgable professionals (in the Charlotte area) at my fingertips that I've used in my day job and am looking to leverage the relationships I've built and utilize them on my investment endeavors. Long-term, once I have a portfolio of residential I'll be looking to trade-up to retail and multi-family commercial properties.

I have some capital to work with as well as the ability to qualify for a few extra mortgages, so I have a wide-range of potential opportunities for investments.

Thanks for the opportunity to network here and love what this blog is all about!!

Cheers!

Vic