Commercial RE Agent and Investor in Northern VA

[Roger Lin]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Roger Lin and I live in Fairfax County, VA. I am a new member of BP and hope to be able to contribute as well as benefit from all the exchanges of ideas and experiences here.

I started out in real estate during the "go-go years" of 2004-2006 working as a real estate attorney in the D.C. region doing title work for residential purchases and refinances. I met some investors working as a real estate attorney and they piqued my interest in investing in real estate.

In 2007 I started a small real estate investment company for my family, which I still run. We started by hard money lending on rehab projects and owning rental properties. This led me to actually rehab properties and build new construction homes. The construction work eventually led to a passion in building science and high performance green building approaches (passivhaus, zero-net-energy). In the back of my mind, I always wanted to scale my work to commercial real estate. One year ago, I decided to get more education and enrolled in the M.S. in Real Estate Development at George Mason University.

Today, I am a student, I own and manage a few SFH rental units, I originate the occasional hard money loan and I build high performance homes. My new focus is at Weber Rector Commercial Real Estate Services, where I work as a commercial real estate agent to really understand commercial real estate. My goal there is to expand the footprint of the company into other parts of Northern VA.

I seek to learn from those of you much more experienced than I am and hope to add value to discussions and perhaps meet friends who share similar passions in real estate.