Newbie college student in Kansas City area

[Jack Mills]

Hello!

I am a 21 yr old college student and have been very interested in REI for a few years now. I have listened to both BP podcasts for a while, as well as some books and other resources for some background knowledge on how to get started.

Background:

I am from the Kansas City area (Grew up in Rural Miami County). Started my college career at Baker University playing baseball and currently attend K-State. I will finish up my degree(s) in Mech. Engineering and Physics next year and hope to get a solid income to finance my REI goals until I can hopefully make it my full time career (Currently interning at an aerospace company in KC). At school, I also work for a landlord in the area doing various property management and renovation work (Painting, flooring, decking , tenant calls, showings, etc).

Goals:

Using my summer internships and job at school I am saving up as much as possible while still keeping my student debt low in hopes of finding a property to house hack after I graduate as a starting point.

I would love to hear any specific tips/tricks for my situation and get to know other like-minded individuals with similar interests in my area.

[Kim Tucker]

Jack - I too grew up in rural Miami County (Paola) and attended K-State and after years in corporate, I got my real estate license and became the realtor for our family investment team.  That was 20 years ago.  We buy, fix, and flip.

While attending our local meetings in KC might be a stretch from Manhattan, if you are in KC on the 2nd Tuesday of the month join us at MAREI in Overland Park.  Then you can connect live and face to face with local investors.

We will be talking about wholesaling in August, that allows you to flip houses without much if any money.

In September we will be talking about rehabbing houses - one of the Rs in BRRRR.

And in November we will be talking about creative financing to buy houses to hold for your BRRRR.

The first meeting is free.  We post the events on the calendar here on BP.

Kim