total newb from southern Ct.

[Ron Rutherford]

Hey all, just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. My name is Ron and I recently decided to venture into the world of REI. This is a partnership deal with 3 of my friends, one of which is a contractor/handyman, the other has dealt in REI in the past but has been out of it since the mid 80's, the other is a real estate apraiser with 25 yrs in that field, and I'm a licensed arborist/ horticulturist to deal with the outside end of things. between the 4 of us we are hoping we can handle a few projects and make things work.
For now our primary intention is to flip distressed homes but ultimately maybe we could do some renting as well...I've/we've got lots of questions but I'll try to post them in the appropriate areas of the forum...Thanks in advance for any info you're willing to share.
For what its worth I'm 43 yrs. young, happily married to my beautiful bride for 15 yrs. I have 2 children and 4 young foster children (all siblings) that we are hoping to one day adopt, and possibly another foster child (also a sibling to the 4 that we have) which we believe is due sometime in Dec.
I've owned my own business in arboriculture / horticulture for the past 7 years...Thanks again, Ron.