New Investor in the Seattle/Tacoma, WA area

[Brandon Yokoyama]

Hello Everyone,

My name is Brandon Yokoyama. I am a new investor looking to relocate to the Seattle/Tacoma, WA area via house hacking.

My journey that brought me to these forums:

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I realized an opportunity to earn more money by doing travel nursing so I up and left my hospital job to take advantage of the elevated rates for RNs during this time. My savings fund I had set up with the intention of investing started to grow large enough to where I could seriously start considering real estate and so I started to educate myself. From investopedia/other online articles to BiggerPockets podcasts to buying almost all of the BiggerPockets bookstore during Black Friday, I started using my free time to educate myself as much as possible. I feel at this point I've learned enough to start really making some big moves and so I'm making one of the biggest moves here and officially joining the forums today. 

My plan:

Ideally, I would love to buy an under market value multifamily property using either a standard FHA loan or a 203k loan. My plans would then be to renovate to gain equity, and hopefully have enough to either:

refi out of PMI

or 

refi for the purpose of adding cash to my BRRRR fund.

So first step for me is finding a house hack deal but I do hope to continue into BRRRRing properties afterwards. 

Thanks for taking the time to read through my intro, I look forward to meeting other like-minded people!

Brandon Yokoyama