I love fly-fishing and elk hunting; Interested in real estate

[Aaron Akins]

I'm a newbie to forum living in the Boise, Idaho area. The market is going crazy here.

I'm a pharmacist, 38 years old and I'd love to retire from pharmacy sooner than later.

I love Idaho...the Elk and upland hunting, fly fishing, etc. 

I did a cash out refi several years ago to use cash for real estate investment purposes, but my wife and I decided to hold off on real estate and dump the cash in stocks instead. I don't regret that move, but now is it's time to start thinking about real estate. 

I'm about to sell my home for about 4X more than I paid for it back in 2010 and walk away with a good chunk of cash in addition to the cash out that I grew in by investing in stocks.

So here I am. I need to find a smaller home for my family ( I assume one that will rent well one day; I'll probably do a downpayment rather than buying outright), and I'll have around $600K to use for investment purposes. 

I'm happy to make my intro. 

Let's do this!