Hello all, my name is Mike, 24 and I'm in the MD/Dc/northernVA area. I've always been somewhat interested in real estate but always thought it was one of those "only for the rich" things.

I've always been bad with money growing up, but been in a position where I'm lucky enough to not get in a bad financial spot. I should be so much further along in life than I am now, I've had a low 6 figure paying job in IT since I was 20' and up until last year, didn't utilize my checking account and was basically living pay check to pay check, with nothing to show for it now but being in debt with a couple cars and a bunch of useless things I do not need.

I decided for my 25th birthday in a couple months, i want to start building wealth, i want to be able to by my 26th birthday have one or 2 properties that i've either bought to hold, or flipped... havent decided which is better for me yet, I'm still doing research but I am giving myself an action date of my birthday in a couple months so I'm not struck with analysis paralysis and time to save some money.

I plan on attending the next meetings for all of the Maryland/DC area REIC meetings, and being active on forums, but will try not to be annoying and ask a bunch of questions instead of using the search function...I know how annoying that is haha

Hope to get to know and work with a lot of you