New Member from Los Angeles, Oregon, and China!

[Kenan Heppe]

Hello everyone! My name is Kenan (pronounced Ken-in) Heppe. I studied Chemistry at Oregon State University, then moved to L.A. to become an actor. For the past three years, I've made a career in China acting in Chinese T.V. shows and movies (learned Mandarin while over here). I've always loved making money in entrepreneurial ways, and have consistently viewed real estate as one of the best ways to reliably build wealth. I'm SUPER excited to join this community, and I've already subscribed to the podcast and am reading your awesome posts!

I've sold my first house a few months ago, and am hoping to take real estate more seriously. As I'm studying, I'm finding I'm probably more interested in domestic or international deals that have high yielding short-term rental potential and long term capital appreciation potential.

Next week, I head to Montenegro to check out Old Town, Kotor. Montenegro is an up and coming country, friendly to foreign investors, high tourism, low tax, and is on track to join the EU in the next five years. For these reasons, I'm excited to scope out opportunity there and practice building investment analysis formulas.

My ultimate goal is to have a castle, because I'm a nerd. And I want to secure the lives of my grandchildren, and their grandchildren. So, there it is! Happy to meet all of you, and I love reading your tips. I'm currently moving through Udemy's online course in real estate, going through the BP reading list, and practicing building rental assessment models. I don't want to get pinned down into just one type of investing, but rather learn the ebbs and flows of the market and do what makes sense at any given time. But, from what I've seen, multifamily units in second tier seem like a decent place to start.