Newbie from Houston, Texas

[Drew Walker]

Hello everyone,

My name is Drew Walker and I am trying to get started in real estate investing. I have been researching investing strategies for about 4 months and feel like I have established a working foundation and am ready to take action. I appreciate all the useful information so far from the members on biggerpockets and have learned a lot. Currently I am working full-time as an offshore structural engineer in the oil & gas industry but I would like to establish a side business in real estate. My main goal in the future is to buy and hold; however, since I have limited capital my short term goal is to fix and flip SFH's in Houston.

With guidance from biggerpockets posts, I have made a lead generating website and have recently ordered yellow letters targeting high equity owners for a single zip code. For rehabs I plan to use a GC and use hard money loans to fund projects. I am still trying to familiarize my self with estimating rehab costs for houses and think this will be one of my biggest learning curves but am willing to learn however I can.

Thanks again to biggerpockets and its members and I look forward to getting involved!

Drew