All Forum Posts by: Caleb Matteis

@ Tiffany Plovie Thanks for the advice. 

@Ralph Soles Thanks for the advice. I'm gonna go and check it out. It gives me a chance to see the area. I have another question. Does the pre approval process effect your credit? What I mean is does it show up as a hard inquiry on your credit report?

Hello Bigger Pockets Family

I'm a new investor just getting started. I've been following the great advice from the blogs and the forums. I've been reading blog articles, and reading free books. I couldn't help myself these last few days though, and I started looking at houses on Trulia and Zillow. I found a couple of single family and multi family in Bloomfield, West Orange, Orange, and Union New Jersey. On one of those properties there is a open house today at 1 30. The agent from the house got in contact with me. She said she would pre approve me on the spot. My question is should I go to the open house?  I have a little ways to go from being ready to buy my first property.

@Jerry Padilla. How long does the pre approval process take, and does it effect your credit ?

Thank you everyone for your input and advice. This is a great community. Very helpful! @paul timminis @michael weiser @ Darren sager @ralph soles @ Wilson a @ joel belding you guys are great thanks.

@Darren Sager Thanks for the advice. I will definitely be attending the meet up in NYC. I already RSVP. Darren thanks again. I'm going to follow everyone's tips.

@Ralph Soles thanks I appreciate the support and feedback.

@wilson a. Thanks for the feedback. I have a question how were you able to maintain things with that much over head the first year? Did you have that much in emergency savings?

Hey Christopher

I'm a newbie but I ran across this book that has been pretty good "How to be a real estate investor" by Phil Pustejovsky. Its been very informative thus far. Its a free download so it can't hurt if you check it out. All the best to you.

@joel thanks