New member introductions

[Thomas Laskey]

Hello BP! I thought I’d take a moment to introduce myself! Excited to meet all of the awesome people here.

My name is Tom Laskey, and I'm a newbie from Atlanta! I have been recently consuming as much real estate knowledge as possible, and hope to purchase my first house hack with my investing partner in the next 2 months. I plan on repeating house hacks for a few years, before venturing further into multifamily rental property investing, possibly with some flipping as well! I'm currently a full time professional musician here in ATL, making my living as a touring and studio guitarist, as well as music educator. I am more than excited about the opportunity and lessons REI will provide for me. Can't wait to hear from you all!

[Nick Peters]

Welcome on BP Thomas!

[Bill Hampton]

@Thomas Laskey

Welcome to Bigger Pockets. We are here to help. Bigger Pockets is a great place for education and networking. 

Check out the Georgia Real Estate Investors Association for local education and networking. They have many monthly educational and networking meetings for different real estate investing strategies. 

Good luck investing and let me know if you have any questions. 

[Thomas Laskey]

@Nick Peters Thanks Nick!

[Thomas Laskey]

@Bill Hampton Thank you Bill! Will definitely look into those events!

[Brenden Mitchum]

Hey @Thomas Laskey! First off, welcome to the BP community!

I, too, am searching for my first house hack. I am currently looking in Gwinnett and Cobb. What areas are you looking? Also, which strategy are you thinking? I highly recommend reading Craig Curelop's The House Hacking Strategy if you have not already. He also has a fantastic bp episode. 

And definitely start getting out to as many meet ups as you can. Being active here on BP won't hurt either!

[Thomas Laskey]

@Brenden Mitchum Hey Brenden! Currently about halfway through that very book, and looking in different locations now. Im hoping to go with the strategy of a fourplex, renting out 3 units. How has the search been going for you?

[Nicole Heasley Beitenman]

Welcome!

[Andrew Syrios]

Welcome to BiggerPockets Thomas!

[Brenden Mitchum]

@Thomas Laskey

Nice man! A quad house hack, in my mind, is the ultimate way to house hack, especially if you can rent out some rooms in your own unit too. 

The search has been slow. Atlanta is red hot and there are not a ton of small multifamily so they go real quick and for inflated prices when they do pop up. I will likely just go the SF route with a mother-in-law suite or something.

Taking a short break to get my real estate license though so hoping to pick back up on the search in a few weeks.

Have you begun looking yet? Any idea what area you want to be in?