All Forum Posts by: Bernadette Johnson

@Devan Kaye

Thank you! Good luck to you as well!

@Account Closed Thank you! I saw on one of your other posts you’re relatively new but have already had some success! That’s awesome! What was the first deal you made? Flip? rental? Curious about how you funded also! 

@Tom Ott Thank you! I see you do turnkey investments in Ohio! If I ever plan to invest out there I’ll definitely remember to connect with you!

Hey guys! My name is Bernadette and I’m finally introducing myself on BiggerPockets! I’ve been on here for several months now and discussing RE Investing with my man/business partner for well over a year. WE. ARE. DONE! just talking about it! I’ve been reading How To Invest in Real Estate by Josh and Brandon. My partner is reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Flipping Houses by J. Scott. We finally got a hold of someone about a house we have been eye balling for probably year. Still untouched, still very distressed. Windows boarded up and all. We did the skip tracing ourselves (so difficult, any advice on that would be appreciated) but the only working phone number lead us to a property management company. Kind of weird but we were connected to a woman that services our area and the PM company has worked with this family for years and said they would reach out and see if the owner wants to sell. Kind of a weird first actual interaction? But we are hopeful! We have made lots of other calls but either have the wrong number or it’s a disconnected one. I can’t find a skip tracing company that will find phone numbers for specific homes. Only ones that do like a giant chunk of listings and they seem to be random ones. So any advice about that would be great!

We intend to start out flipping homes but then definitely want to do buy and holds and flips. Getting our feet in the door flipping has seemed so challenging I have even wondered if we should just buy a turnkey and rent it out to get us started, but I also recognize we have no idea how to be landlords so that is probably not a wise decision.

I have been hoping to find a mentor but need to put myself out there in our local RE investing community. I’m in Southeast WA state.

Any feedback is welcome! Thanks for reading my long post.

@Devan Kaye

Hey there! I have no advice for you but am following your question because I was just asking this question myself! I hope you get some good answers for this. My instinct tells me that it couldn’t be a bad idea to invest in a rental before you buy your own home especially since it sounds like you have some property management experience (unlike me). You would basically just be increasing your income before buying a home! But that’s my inexperienced two-cents.

good luck to you! Hope you don’t mind me piggybacking on your post so I can get some good info from it (: