New Guy who’s looking to invest

[Junior Shay]

Hello ladies and gents,

I’m new at this so I don’t even know where to start. So here’s little bit about myself. I’m currently in my mid twenties from Washington state currently residing in DC area, Virginia to be specific. I ended up on east coast after i enlisted in a military. After about 4 years being here I decided to get into a real estate and that’s when I discovered this website.  I have a huge ambition getting into real estate but not sure where to start. To be honest I’m posting here to hopefully may be find an ambitious person who might be interested to work together and make first baby steps in real estate world. I guess to my luck my big circle of friends are not included towards investing and taking risks, but more towards sticking to regular 9-5 job. I actually have tried to work with one of my friends in starting a joint “business”, but it didn’t go well and I ended up parting out. Hopefully this explains something about myself and if anyone likes to get to know me better feel free to ask! 

[Abel Curiel]

Hello @Junior Shay and thanks for the introduction!

The BiggerPockets forum is a great place to connect with people in and around your target market.

I recommend 4 things:

1. complete your BP profile - be as detailed and specific as possible when mentioning your goals. There are many people with value to add to you and plenty of people you can add value to as well!

2. use the 'search' function to find topics, areas and people of interest. Get answers to your questions and find people using this function!

3. Set up 'keyword' alerts so that you can receive notifications once a topic or area of interest in mentioned in one of the forums. Its a great way to stay current!

4. Check out the Events tab at the top to find local meet ups around you.

Lastly, if you're interested in obtaining a loan or just want general loan information, connect with a lender in your target area. They can point you in the right direction regarding financing.

Best of luck to you moving forward!

Abel