All Forum Posts by: David Soria

@Clarence Huang

I saw your intro post and was going to follow up with you to see what you have learned about Vegas. I'll definitely put in some more research and was planning on contacting Phillip Dwyer later this week.

@Joe Homs

I actually took a look at that meetup when I first joined this site a couple months back. I live right up the street, so I am definitely interested in stopping by sometime. I'll be in Vegas this round of the meetup, but I hope to join next months with some more knowledge.

@Bill R. 

I'm using this to sort of change that part of myself. Make more "action moves" instead of researching endlessly. Just spend over a month researching just which smartphone/plan to buy! Picked it up today finally. I'm looking at it in small steps, but going to force myself to actually take those steps instead of just looking from where I'm standing.

@Hattie Dizmond 

Thank you for the tips. I started by listening to all of the "beginner" in chronological order, skipping any I didn't think applied to my goals. Then I went back and listened to the rest just to hear the information and hopefully learn at least 1 thing from each.

I have already read the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing. I wanted to finish that before making my introduction post actually. I have a lot more books on my list next.

Hello everyone,

I'm here in South Orange County, California (Lake Forest/Irvine area). Learned about BiggerPockets like many others have...through the podcasts. I'm very new to the Real Estate field and I'm in the "education" stage of it all. My degree is in Entrepreneurship and my current field of work is in Immigrations. 

I see myself as a buy and hold investor and as of now I'm just trying to gather as much information as I can. Taking a trip to Vegas in a little over a week to see if there are any potential investments over there for rental properties. In my area, I don't have a lot of options for the amount of capital I currently have. I'm not really looking at flipping until I get a very good understanding of real estate in general, so I figured I'd start with a buy and hold rental if I could and see where it goes from there.

My personality has always been over-analytical and I have ran into analysts paralysis many times when it comes to making decisions. I decided to jump on here and make an introduction post to take action, get the ball rolling and get committed to putting in more research each day.

I'm looking forward to being part of the community, learning from anyone I can and possibly meeting up with locals to learn and share ideas.  Keep an eye out for a post I'll be making later about questions regarding investing in Las Vegas!