Newbie Investor Introduction: Emil O. Pinlac

[Emil Pinlac]

Hi Everyone!

My name is Jeremy ChristianEmil Oneal Manuel Ocampo Pinlac (don't worry, I just go by Emil) and I'm pretty excited to have finally made the jump and created an account here on BiggerPockets! I'm so incredibly grateful for the existence of this site as a resource for everything under the sun as it pertains to the real estate game, and I'm looking forward to getting to know a lot of really knowledgeable people through their writings, their responses, and through hopefully connecting on here in the years to come. 

I haven't yet had the chance to comb through all the topics, or the posts on the Forums, but I figured that a "New Member Introductions" post to start would be a great way to solidify my beginnings into this highly diverse profession/industry. 

My goal of achieving Financial Independence (FI) laid the groundwork that eventually led me to cultivate an interest in Real Estate. I listened to a lot of Financial Independence podcasts - namely Radical Personal Finance, The Money Guy Show, The Mad Fientist, but mostly, Jonathan Mendonsa and Brad Barrett's podcast, ChooseFi, and I was initially inspired to jump into Real Estate when I listened to their interview with Chad "Coach" Carson - who house-hacked and flipped his way to financial freedom and "early" retirement. 

Fast forward to today, two years later, and now I've begun taking actionable steps toward increasing my own knowledge-base, and investing in myself to be prepared as possible for my first deal, which I am targeting to be a modest multi-family home that I intend on rehabbing and house-hacking (my actual goals are in my profile, I don't want to be redundant and post it on here too, haha.) 

While I am still admittedly in the accumulation phase of my real estate career, it is my current goal to learn as much as I can about Real Estate in the meantime - through RE tips and tricks from Graham Stephan and Meet Kevin on YouTube, through the BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast, and through all the knowledgeable contributors posting in the BiggerPockets Forums. 

I'll definitely get around to working my way through all the different articles and topic subcategories - but, for someone completely new, does anyone have any advice for what they wish they knew when they first started up an account on BiggerPockets? Would anyone be able to point me to any one resource, or article that they wish they had found earlier in their joining of BiggerPockets? 

Thank you so much for your time. Looking forward to learning a TON.