New Investor, Here To Learn, Pittsburgh Area Based.

[Dustin L. Jones]

Hi Everyone, When Covid started and my office closed for a few weeks I decided I was going to learn about 2 things, Real Estate Investing and buying and selling stocks, calls and puts. Several books, hundreds of hours of you tube and podcasts and discussions with my wife we are buying our first investment property this September-October. I’m a Safety Manager for a large oil and gas company but I started life as a mechanic and then was a punch list general contractor for several builders here in Western PA until 2007. Made a move into Radioactive Materials Remediation (I know weird move) and was hired by a large oil and gas company 2.5 years later as their Radioactive Materials Manager, learned explosives compliance along the way and spent my last 5 years there traveling all over the U.S. as their Corporate Radiation and Explosives Manager. 2017, Good Job, Good Pay, New Baby and then a heating fuel oil truck had a spill on my property and made its way into my home and under my homes footer, DEP got involved and to remediate it they had to tear down the house and we lost everything. After 1.5 years of fighting an insurance company, we started over, bought a house last year, I changed to a job where I’m home every night and my 2nd baby was born. I love my current company and my job but I’m tired of working for someone else. We have a 10 year plan and then I’m done working for anyone but me ( and the wife). Sorry for the long story but I’m excited to get into this and I hope to gain a lot of knowledge for here and I’m interested in making any connections in or around the Pittsburgh area. I live in Washington, PA.

Dustin