New Member from Northern Virginia

[KC Madsen]

Hi, all! I'm super excited to be joining the BiggerPockets community!

I grew up in Indianapolis the son of buy-and-hold real estate investors. I always knew that I wanted to be a real estate investor, but put my ambitions on hold for 10 years of active duty military service. I've been out of the military two years now and I'm getting the itch to begin investing.

My wife and i currently both work full-time jobs and we're carefully considering our options to transition to full-time real estate investment.

During my daily 2-hour commute to and from work (one of my many motivators to transition), I began listening to as many real-estate podcasts as I could find. One after the other, I subscribed to podcasts and quickly un-subscribed when I realized they were all guru sales pitches... until I found the BiggerPockets podcast! Brandon and Joshua are fantastic hosts and the guests are wonderful. I highly recommend giving the podcasts a listen if you haven't tried them yet. Once I listed to every available podcast, I craved more info (I'm a data guy) and found my way to the BiggerPockets.com community.

I'm most interested (for now) in learning about strategies for investing in a high-cost real estate market such as Northern Virginia / Washington DC.

I look forward to getting to know you all in the forums and blogs!

thanks!
KC Madsen