New Member from Greensboro, North Carolina

[Jake Thornhill]

Hey everyone! 

   My name is Jake and I am so excited to start engaging more with this community and with real estate. Just to offer a bit of my story... About a year ago I was exposed to the world of real estate and began to do my research. It wasn't long before I had to make a hard choice: pay back my final 25k worth of debt, or continue to make minimum payments and start investing in real estate. I decided to blitz my debt as hard as I could and in August of last year I became debt free. Shortly after this I started back into the world of Real Estate and found BiggerPockets in late December. Since then I have listened to 1-3 podcasts almost every day, read multiple books about real estate, read who knows how many blog posts, and sat down with a few successful investors. 

   Now that I feel like I have a good base of knowledge I have started my search for my first rental property. At this point I have been to 4 different properties, and have used the calculators on MANY more. My plan is to begin with Single Family and then hopefully move to multi-family investing. 

   I cannot begin to explain how surreal this process has been (though I am sure most of you understand) and I cannot wait to get my first property under my belt so I can start looking towards my second :) Excited to take a step deeper into this community and into my real estate journey!

-Jake  

[Jason Coleman]

Greensboro and the Triad area is a great place to get started investing in RE. The Triad REIA is also great place to absorb information. Don't hold back your questions. Nothing builds your confidence like a deal or two though. Don't get paralyzed by too much info. I got started 1.5 years ago after listening to BP and it changed my life. Have 3 properties right now and constantly looking for more. I left my "stable" laboratory job to pursue real estate full time. Decided to get my Real Estate license as well so I'd be glad to help out however I can. I've been in the Triad area for over 12 years. Good luck to you. I wish you very best.