Hi bigger pocket community, i need your help,advice and knowledge. Im new to it all 👋🏼🤙🏼
Im 26 years old was born and raised in the beautiful San Fernando Valley and have been in a relationship with soon to be beautiful mother to my future baby boy. After almost a decade and it feels like just yesterday. Her family accepted me into her home and showed me the side of family I believed was only on tv. They loved me when I needed it most.
I was a troublemaker and joker with a little bit of a bully. I picked on the kids who messed with the smaller kids. I was a football, basketball, soccer, hockey player but never had the grades to be able to play for my schools so i was part of the school drama and later speech and debate team wich let me expirince life and environments completely different from mine while also providing a family feeling i was in search for. I struggled in every aspect of learning wich was expected from a child who was raised In a bad situation mixed with alcoholism and domestic violence, but As i entered my third decade of life the world showed me just how brutal it can be. My little brother was stabbed 4 times with me trying to put his ear back together as it was split in half and the bottom half of his ear flopping down the side of neck macking sure hes ok, trying to help my buddys from being stabbed themselves with no success findind out when the ambulance got there that my brother was on the brink of death by blood loss and friend being slashed but not being able to feel it because of the adrenaline or see it because his clothes were covering his cut while shaking off the brass knuckle hits to the back of my head, i was shook. The hit jogged me just a little bit and added just a couple more things to my trauma list as a child. for the next couple of months i began having memory flashbacks to memories that as kid were suppressed. Alot memories that i didnt want but had to be hit in the head to actually be able to see. I was depressed and Lost my drive. I Hit almost 400 pounds and I on a path of self sabotage and potential death my girlfriend being able to see it in couraged me to try meditation and yoga while at the same time a good buddy of mine allowing me to borrow a book he was reading called "rich dad, poor dad" and it shifted my enitire life on to a path of financial freedom. I was struggling to find a job. Livin off of supporting family and friends. My beautiful grandma allowing me and my girlfriend to stay with her rent free till we were able to support our selves and Asking friends and family for small loans to get by every week to support my little future family paying them back with recycling money and any labor work i could do Or help out with. While also Trying to enter a whole new world of books that i never found the time before in my life to just actually read, but now i wanted to read all the books that i could read. I enrolled into Santa Monica College with goals to graduate in arts and a drive to start my own clothing/ film production company In my quest to financial freedom. I was struggling to get there 4 out of 7 days on on my skateboard alternating from board to bus to train and new found drive. I continued for a little bit and gained valuable knowledge on the studies of art and math but with not job it was hard to continue to skate to school using up 4 hours to get and 4 hours to come home on school days i didnt really make time to actually follow through with interviews and potential job opportunities because i was to focused on my craft, but One day while skating to see my mom i saw a banner for a job opportunity and applied and told my self if i got called would follow through no matter what. Was called the next day for a on the spot interview but was on the way to school and had no way to turn back and make it back in time so i asked if i could reschedule the next day first thing in the morning and they said that would be perfect. I showed up and gave my all. The world gifted me with a job. I got an opportunity to work as a custodian part time at non profit close to home then began to work my way up to full time employment with the ultimate goal of getting my hands on a stable income and benefits plan for myself and began working on my road to returning to education and financial freedom. I am now one and a half years into it and a normal employee working full time putting all my money into a couple of different investment vihicles. I started with a couple stocks and now work full time and have a Roth IRA, Roth 401k and working on life insurance. Along my journey to financial freedom i came across real estate as an investment vehicle to supply my life dreams of being able to attend all my kids games and still have a cash flow able to provide my dream life and goals.
Trought my adult life my girlfriend and her family have stood by and watched me change for the better. loving and supporting us while fighting there own battle. In the process of being kicked out of my girlfriends childhood home and her mother supporting her own parents and and house payment splitting it with her sister including lawyer fees to keep the bank at bay for as long as possible before eventually being kicked out they still found the time to help me with anything that i needed from groceries to a ride to work and asked for nothing in return. They helped me on my path to success and forever grateful for them. On my financial path i came across biggerpockets and for a while now have been listening to a couple of there podcast shows and eventually visited the website along with creating a profile but a little unsure of how to introduce myself i tought this would be a good opportunity to introduce myself to the community while at the same time connecting potential seller, buyers and everything in between while potentially allowing me to learn from as much as i could from this connection and future connections. They deserve the world. I cant give them that but i can give them a connection. I do not know if i will actually get a reply but its a start. Thank you for all of your knowledge biggerpockets.
