Newbie Investor from Duluth, MN

[Nathan F.]

Hello to all, want to introduce myself, I'm Nathan and live in Northern Minnesota. I'm new to real estate investing. I've been looking for my first investment for a few months now. I really love this site, all the great articles, podcasts, and great treasure of info you can find in the forums.

I'm looking to buy a multi-family, buy and hold. Looking to owner occupy first one. It has been difficult to find something that matches my criteria, so thinking of fixing up a distressed single family and turn into rental. We'll see what happens.

I might get a hard time for this on this site, but I am a project manager and estimator for a heavy highway company (dirty word: Contractor). I manage $10 to $15M of projects every year. I have been involved in contracting world for 18 years now. Although I run highway, bridge, and city utility projects, I think some of that should carry into real estate investing and dealing with residential contractors and bids.

Anyways, I love the all the info on the site, especially all the podcasts, keep them coming.

Thanks for reading and looking forward to meeting other investors and networking.

[Paul Timmins]

Nathan

Welcome check out the free

Bigger Pockets Real Estate Guidehttp://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investing

Connect with 3 local REIA clubs they are a good source for people, info and resources.

Consider checking out HUD homes. First crack go to owner occupied. You could get a small multi live in one unit rent the others for cashflow.

Paul