Warm Hello from Miami, Florida

[Kevin Fontaine]

Hi everyone in the BP community-- My name is Kevin and I'm a young and aspiring investor from the sunshine state! The BP Real Estate podcast has been my go-to for learning and inspiration and I wanted to dive more into the community now through this site. I recently graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor's in Finance and I'm looking to work/learn for a couple years before starting grad school towards an MBA, most likely specified in real estate.

In the meantime, I got some footing in the game and earned my real estate sales associate license in 2018, my freshman year of college. And now my fresh real estate broker's license two weeks ago! I've gotten some well-rounded experience as a realtor from helping sell/buy/rent residential properties and a handful of commercial deals alongside my father. I also have a little experience and understanding analyzing deals using Excel from school classes but would definitely want to learn more about that!

The goal now? Although I've enjoyed being on the transactional side of real estate, I would love to get more work experience investing in real estate. Specifically, in the area of buying and holding multi-family/commercial properties; but I'm open to it all! To be very honest though, my capital (as most recently graduated college students) is minimal. And this is why I am looking to connect with people in the local market and to gain experience in my early years through practice.
And I'm happy to get to know and talk to anyone on here about really anything such as your own personal experience starting out, to the market in South Florida, building capital in your 20s.

Also, the concept of taking my commissions as a broker from successful real estate transactions to then invest for my own is a concept I am really interested in learning about. So if you have any comments on that please share away!

I appreciate you taking your time to read this, and I look forward to meeting everyone!