All Forum Posts by: Gilda L. Sauceda

Hey Gilda, great post and awesome to hear you're taking these important and exciting steps! As others have said community is huge! Go to meetups and connect with people in person and online. Connecting with rockstar talent in your area (agent, lender, etc) will help you stay excited and motivated to take the "scary" next steps. Hope this helps and good luck!

I appreciate the advice, I’m currently traveling as a nurse. I believe it’s not helpful as much to not be in town in order to find the local meet ups but I will inform myself and hopefully when I’m back in my hometown I can attend a few and meet the right people. Thank you for your advice and time to reply.


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Quote from @Gilda L. Sauceda:

Hi everyone,

I finished college and started making some money with my career. I want to invest it into a multifamily rental 3-4 units occupied owned. Any advice? I got pre approved for a loan but now what? I’m not good with numbers.. what would you do in my situation so that my first investment can be somewhat safe? My agent isn’t competent in investments and I just don’t want brokers telling me what I want to hear.. I don’t want fear and incompetence to stop me from jumping into real estate, what are my options? I am reading books and researching but it seems like a lot and the more I do it the more it scares me off lol.  Thank you everyone! 

 Hi @Gilda L. Sauceda,

You'd be very well served to start attending local real estate meetups!  Look on BP, Meetup, and Google search to find local meetups.  Become a regular at as many as you can.

At these meetups, you'll meet the best agents in your markets.  They'll be the ones who either know how to effectively look or might even have an insider deal for you.  The first single family AND duplex I ever bought came from inside deals from people I met at local meetups.  Then I used one of the agents at the meet to help me buy the house-hack I live in currently.  

Good luck!!

I definitely need an investor to guide me. My agent is such a helpful person and does her part to send me listings but I feel the disconnect when it comes to questions I may ask about the properties. I will be looking into the “find an agent” and hopefully this will assist me for the better. I don’t want to seem inconsistent with my agent but there’s so much I need to know and without the right guide I’m scared to get into a pickle where It will be hard to get out of; in other words I want to enjoy this process rather than hate it in the long run. I appreciate it! Will keep you in mind. 


Quote from @Ian Jimeno:

Hi Gilda!

Glad you're looking into investing, especially house hacking! You're making the right moves in getting pre-approved and working with an agent, and from what it sounds like, you should find an agent that has investment properties of their own, has done a house hack (or has worked with several house hacking clients), and is knowledgeable in underwriting deals for house hacking. Hopefully you haven't signed an Exclusive Right to Buy with them already...

A great place to start is to click on the "Find an Agent" at the top of the Bigger Pockets page. It'll help you find an agent who understands the ins and outs of real estate investing. You need a guide, someone not afraid to tell you that a certain path is a good/bad path. I do this a lot for my clients, and even though they're backing out from certain deals, I know I'm guiding them in the right direction!

Knowledge is power, yes, but too much analysis can leave you paralyzed from fear of the unknown. Find an agent who has done it before! If you're ever in the Denver area, I would love to help you out and understand your goals.

Cheers and best of luck!