Newbie from Wilmington, NC!

[Autumn Russell]

Hello BiggerPockets people! I am so excited to have found this community. 

My husband and I work and live on a charter catamaran as a Captain and Chef team. We are based in the Virgin Islands for nine months out of the year and have been saving up to start investing in real estate. We are very lucky to have a free place to live on the water, but that also means we have never purchased real estate and not familiar with living on land anymore... stuff like prices for lawn care, flood insurance, garbage removal etc. We are trying not to let that stop us from becoming short term rental or long term rental investors though. 

Due to the virus, we have been shut down and have all this free time for boat maintenance and more importantly real estate research! We have family in Wilmington, so would like to invest there since we know the area, have a real estate agent we trust, and have family living nearby while we are away working for most of the year. We will be investing either this fall or next fall depending on the virus situation. Would love to connect with some of you from that area!