All Forum Posts by: Dawn Fuentes

Thank you Jason! I'm still working a day job so devoting most of my evenings and weekends to this venture, I'm hoping it's enough! I appreciate your support and encouragement! I will keep on truckin! :)

Hello everyone! I'm a new real estate investor from Denver, Colorado. I'm very excited to participate in this industry and learn as much as I can from more experienced people who have been doing this successfully! I'm currently still working a full-time job as a computer technician at a local corporation but am devoting my nights and weekends to starting up my own Real Estate Investment business.

I'm currently working on finding properties to Wholesale to investors to get some cash flow started up so I can invest in other areas in the hopefully nearish future. I'm not 100% sure what area of Real Estate I'm most interested in at the moment because there are so many great options and strategies, but SFR & multiplex Fix and Flips and Fix, Hold and Rent both appeal to me so I'm thinking that might be the direction I'm headed in when I get some more experience under my belt, although I may find many directions that interest me.

I'm really excited to be a part of this community and participate in these forums and I have so far had some great responses and interactions with other members. Thank you very much for the kind words and advice! :)

My goal within one year is hopefully to be able to quit my job, leave Corporate America in the dust forever and do Real Estate investing full time so I have more flexibility in my work schedule and more financial freedom to travel and give back to the community more than I can currently both with my time and my money. I also can't wait until I am actually getting paid directly in proportion to how hard I work instead of someone else making so much money off my sweat equity, I have a very strong work ethic, excellent customer service and communication/networking skills and unbridled enthusiasm and passion and these qualities are under-appreciated and under-compensated in my current career.

We live in northwest Denver and love living in Colorado, it's absolutely beautiful here and there are a lot of great activities and the mountains are just a Jeep ride away. I am a Colorado native and my husband is from Bolivia, South America and we are hoping to start a family later this year. I would really like to be able to raise my future kids and work out of my home and be with my family more. We both speak Spanish and he's working on his English, and I'm really hoping being bi-lingual will be a great help to us in this industry.

We really look forward to talking with and meeting other members and any help or advice anyone wants to give us as we start out on this Real Estate journey. Thank you very much and I hope everyone has a great weekend! :)

Dawn Fuentes

Thank you so much Kyle for your response, I appreciate the insight! I am still going to look for deals in Denver, but I think I may branch out to other areas as well where the market isn't surging up so rapidly and there is more inventory and more houses that just generally need to be fixed up that are harder to sell.

That's awesome that you got a rehab done and sold so quickly! Congratulations! I'm just starting out so am hoping to find a property or two within the next several weeks, I'm definitely pounding the pavement trying to make this happen. I hear you about banging your head on the wall, I completely understand the feeling, but I am eternally optimistic which hopefully will serve me in this industry and if not at least I'm not getting down about it at the moment anyway. :) I'm keeping my eyes and ears peeled for properties, I'm thinking I need to start engaging more bird dogs...hopefully persistence will pay off in this market!

Hi I'm a new Real Estate Investor in Denver, Colorado and I am looking to collaborate with other investors and real estate professionals of all types in the area, but I am also specifically looking to get involved with the latino market and am looking for other investors who are currently working in this arena. I have been contacting hispanic business through the listing with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Mi Gente directory and just generally trying to Google Search what I need and I'm getting mixed results and it's not as easy as I thought it would be to build this type of network.

If someone is already working in this market I would love any information you can pass along regarding both appealing to customers and home-sellers as well as contacts in Latino businesses that are needed for real estate investing.

Yo hablo espanol, mi esposo esta de Bolivia y queremos entrar este mercado y ayudar gente latino en cualquier manera que podemos. Please let me know if you have any information regarding this, I would truly appreciate it! Thank you!

I'm very new to real estate investing and I'm currently starting out wholesaling properties. I keep hearing that the available inventory of houses with good profit margins in the Denver area is very low. I seem to especially hear this from Real Estate agents when I contact them for listings of homes that need repair. I am using a lot of other methods to find properties than just relying on agents, but they are definitely an important tool in my toolbox.

Is anyone else running into problems finding properties in the Denver metro area? I know there are properties out there and I intend to hunt them down as hard and as fast as I can, I am beyond determined, but I was just wondering how things have changed over the past 6 months to a year and if others are running into this as well? Does anyone have any good tips to pass along for finding properties?

I'm currently using Craigslist and some other free classified sites, bandit signs looking for distressed property owners, word of mouth with my own network and software that gives me access to pre-foreclosure properties so I can do direct mailings. I have a few bird dogs I've enlisted that are out there on the streets looking for me as well, but are there other effective methods I should be using? What are the communities' thoughts on this? Thank you very much in advance for any input, it's so great to have other people in the industry to reach out to for advice and collaboration, I'm so glad I found this website!