Newbie to the US, and new to US real estate

[Tom Port]

Hi everyone!

I heard about this wonderful forum from the BP podcast, which I have begun to thoroughly enjoy. 

Little bit about me; born and raised in the UK, first employee for a tech start up from Ireland, grew the Sales team to delivering 6-8 million ARR across multiple regions. Recently migrated to the US to grow the operation here, however, due to a few recent changes in the organization I'm likely going to be leaving the next 3 months with a significant lump sum. 

Tech has never really been my passion but, I adore sales, selling and generally seeing a business/operation grow. That really is my passion! Over the last 8 years I've dabbled in real estate in the UK, and currently own three properties, and have flipped a house and now seeing as the US in my new home, I want to learn to do it here. 

Practically speaking, I need to wait for a few things to happen namely, before I can borrow money I need permanent residency (Green card) which all being well will happen in the next 4-6 months. 

In the mean time, I am here to learn as much as I can, I'm an avid reader/listener, so any books/podcasts/blogs etc that you can point a newbie to, please just let me know! 

Also, I've grown/closed multimillion dollar producing sales teams/deals, so I'd like to feel I am well qualified in that particular field so if any wanted advice on anything from lead gen/cold calling/sales cycles I'd be more than happy to help! 

Thanks for reading :) 

[Kyle Smith]

Welcome to the States, @Tom Port. One thing that stood out in your initial post was the thought that you need to have a Green Card in order to borrow money. That is probably true if you're only thinking of borrowing in the traditional sense from a bank or credit union. There are tons of other ways to raise capital/structure deals that you could begin to explore immediately. 

I just read @Brandon Turner's book on Investing in Real Estate with Little (and No) Money Down. Really eye-opening in terms of the limiting beliefs I had regarding ways to finance deals. 

You can pick it up in the Bigger Pockets bookstore... 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/store/no-money-down-...