MIND BLOWN: Newbie investor from Charleston, SC

[Joe Caron]

Hello fellow BPers!

I'd like to introduce myself, I'm Joe Caron, and I have been taken by the world of real estate!

Here's a little back story: I recently moved to the beautiful city of Charleston, SC (everyone is so nice down here!) and I came from a rural small town in Ct where I was a rental house crane operator.  Its a fulfilling job that has great benefits but, it also has its drawbacks being constricted to someone else's time schedule. And over time, I realized that I wasn't really truly happy grinding everyday to make someone else rich. I think that brings a lot of us here. During that period, I ended up buying a horse barn and converting it into a post and beam home. That has been one of the biggest lessons of my life, most of the work was done myself with the help and overwhelming support of my friends, family and extremely patient girlfriend. 

I first stumbled onto biggerpockets via their podcast. It was with @David Greene and his BRRRR strategy. I was in the crane and listening to his story and he was describing his frustrations which happened to be my frustrations! I have never heard or thought of anything like the BRRRR strategy, I was hooked. (If you see this David, thank you so much for giving a jump start in this direction) Since then I have immersed myself into multiple real estate books, many more podcasts, webinars, and attended some local REI club meetings.

I'm green as a pickle in the investing scene and also to Charleston, I'm here to network with people and help out where and when I can. After diving into this field, the practices of @Dave Van Horn really made sense with me.  I like his strategy of having access to equity in his properties and using that to fund notes while using private money to fund flips to double down on his net worth. (Thanks for the mindset strategy Dave!) I'm highly motivated and driven to learn more and use this knowledge to further my path and the paths of others. 

I have met so many great people playing in this arena and look forward to meeting many more! I appreciate taking your time to read this, safe ventures.

-Joe Caron