Networking with Fellow Investors in JAX

[Allen Williams]

Good Morning everyone,

I currently work in the financial world and am in the process of getting into the world of real estate investing. My wife and I just moved from Atlanta and I am hoping to start building connections with other investors and real estate professionals in Jacksonville with a similiar mindset and goals. Please respond if this is of interest to anyone.

Sincerely,

Allen Williams

[Jack Bobeck]

@Basit Siddiqi You have to forgive Jacksonville for being LAZY, you see there are some neighborhoods that were created with a plan in mind, and then some with no plan other than get rich quick by developers. Avondale had a plan, develop streets from the river to the railroad tracks and put in houses for the citizens that were tired of the Riverside and downtown areas. There was a great plan and it worked, until Jacksonville got lazy and decided to add all of streets like Menna, Ingleside and others where like @Kristi Smith mentions its street by street. You can go drive in Avondale, Murray Hill, Riverside, San Marco and see on one street, it features beautiful homes with paved driveways and perfect lawns and one street over its a hodge podge of the land that time forgot. Most parts of Jacksonville, old Jax, started that way, with a plan, then infill came in and we got lazy so we called an entire "area" by the closest neighborhood. The older parts of Jacksonville actually operate with a grid based street system, easy ways to get around. Many places on the Southside, have 1 way in and 1 way out. Still people buy homes in Lake Shore with Septic Tanks, just as much as they buy properties in Lakewood where they have city sewer. 

Its best to drive around the city and see what you like, don't like and then determine where you want to invest. The beaches is GREAT to live and invest if you have a lot more capital, but you do have disruptions in the form of storms, not often, but they create a lot of anxiety when you are told to Mandatory Evacuate. Westside you have more land, but you have more land and less people. Its to each their own. Jacksonville has a lot to offer. Best of luck to you - Jack