From Tech to Real Estate!

[Cody Bentson]

Hello everyone,

My name is Cody and I recently moved to Phoenix, AZ from San Jose, CA. I work as a full-time Software Engineer for a company based in California and am looking to start building my rental property portfolio on the side. Property investing is new to me, so I am currently in the process of self-educating by reading through Brandon Turner's The Book On Rental Property Investing, listening to podcasts, and watching as many YouTube videos as possible. 

I am approaching burn out in my current career as a Software Engineer. The rat race of the technology vertical is proving to be quite exhausting. It is becoming clear to me that this is not how I want to spend my life. With that being said, I am looking to make a transition into something that I believe will make me a happier person. I have always loved real estate and as I get older, I'm frequently exposed to a variety of opportunities in terms of making a living through real estate investing. I am hoping to use my current day job salary to build out a rental property portfolio that can allow me to make the transition to full-time real estate investing!

I look forward to getting to know people within the BiggerPockets community, especially those who share similar goals and aspirations as I do.

Cheers!

[Mack Benson]

Welcome to BiggerPockets @Cody Bentson. From another guy who is in IT, I understand the struggle. 

One thing that the more analytically minded people struggle with in real estate is with analysis paralysis. Think of real estate sort of like learning to code. You can read a hundred books on coding but I'm sure you really learned when you started doing it. One thing I have to tell myself from time to time is to stop thinking and start doing. 

Good luck!