All Forum Posts by: Audrey O'Connor

I love the thought-provoking replies. 

To answer your questions @Tesho Akindele; I do not know yet what it means to me exactly. Topics I think about are: affordable housing, gentrification, systemic racism, sustainable environment, community, and neighborhoods. How all that will shape our business model is yet to come. We are still so green, don't even have a single property yet but as we move forward with learning the next steps (right now is finding agents, lenders, and which loan/s will be best for the two markets were looking into) we want to continually pause and ask ourselves how will this impact the people who live there, the community. As well as does it make sense financially. Always the first question! 

 I really appreciate what you said. The balance of a business model and inner peace is subjective for each person and no doubt the bottom line for most business models is asset growth. This, honestly, is what I would like the bottom line for my model to be, however, as my husband put it "we always have a choice". 

@AJ Shepard and @Brad Hammond, very cool. My husband and I plan to move back to PDX once I land a job/contract, ideally sometime this summer (came from there prior to starting med school). We are currently looking into house-hacking to get us started. I am very interested in learning the ins and out of investing in PDX. I was recently directed to Multifamily NW and Rental Housing Alliance. Would you recommend those organizations for learning about affordable and sustainable housing? They seem to be 'go-to' organizations for PDX investors. 

@Russell Brazil, @Jailan Elayoubi, @Jack Seiden I never want to be a slumlord. I have been the tenant so many times in the past with horrible landlords. I really appreciate your input and stories. 

Hi there. My husband and I are still early in our investing journey and are in the learning phase. We recently identified with an idea that resonates with who we strive to be as humans and how we want to be as investors: socially responsible. 

My question to you the community: What does this mean to/for you? 

Thank you.

@Brianna Reynolds I will! I’m still learning to navigate this platform to make private connections. I’ll reach out soon once I figure that out. I believe I accepted an invite from you for something but not sure what it was. I’m also very new to to online socializing other than flipping through FB haha. Leaning all sorts of new skills these days. :)

@Marc Edwards great! I’m still leaning BP navigation and have yet to figure out private chat areas but when I do I’ll reach out. We would love to talk real estate too.

@Anne Traas that sounds lovely. I’m also very new to the BP space and forums in general. Once I figure out private chat spaces I’ll reach out lol.

Thank you! We are here in KCMO for a year while I"m in my fellowship training. We are not certain if we will be able to invest while living here but want to learn the area and meet trusted folks to help when we are ready. After fellowship, we plan to relocate back to Portland OR and are open to out-of-state investing. While here we want to make connections and become familiar with different areas. 

We are very new to investing and are still learning the basics, however, I feel getting out and making connections will only help us with the needed inertia to start investing. 

Alex, thank you. We will reach out and connect when our schedules allow. (husband works nights, I'm on days)

Brianna we would love to join a meetup. I imagine investing in something 'easy', a property we could get money to invest in, and one that would be easy to manage from afar.

Dmitriy, thank you! I will check out that link!.

My husband and I are interested in real estate investing and are looking for people to connect with in the KCMO area to help get us started.