Hello everyone in BP land! My name is Jacques!
I apologize for not having a profile picture up yet. I made this account in kind of a hurry a few weeks ago and recently decided to download the app to check it out from my phone. Unfortunately I haven’t found a way to do any editing of my profile from the mobile app.
ANYWAYS! As I said, my name is Jacques. I’m 23 years old, born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We’re known for Breaking Bad, the Balloon Fiesta, and our crime rates.
I came across Bigger Pockets a few weeks ago when I decided to start looking into real estate investing a little more seriously. I found the podcast and have so far listened to about 30 episodes and am truly pumped to get into this industry!
I have a few reasons for wanting to invest in real estate;
Firstly, the thought of financial freedom has been something that I’ve been striving to achieve since I first heard about it. Real estate, from everything that I’ve read, seems like a great catalyst to do so. (I’m not too sure if that’s the correct use of the word catalyst, but it’s the word that came to mind.)
Secondly, I’ve always wanted to find a form of income that would allow me to work while being around my family as much as possible. I have a 1 year old that seriously gets bigger everyday. Being able to actually be with her and watch as she grows is huge to me. Not to say that this isn’t possible with a 9 to 5, but in my line of work (welding) I’m usually pretty tired after work and just want to sleep. A 2 hour commute to work each way doesn’t really help too much either.
There’s plenty of other reasons why, but one of the biggest has to be that I love working both in an office setting and “out in the field.” I’ve had trouble in the past really finding anything that I’m passionate about, but the few times that I’ve helped people with doing renos or new constructions I’ve been amazed at how much I enjoy it. Being able to work on plans and dealing with administrative things like building permits, then going out and doing the actual work. I imagine it’s probably because I haven’t had to deal with the major headaches that can present themselves, but for the fore mentioned reasons I believe it’d be more than worth doing.
If you’ve gotten this far, I commend you and you definitely deserve some kind of cookie or something. As for what I’m looking to do, along with my fiancé we hope to do a few flips, find a few investment properties, and ultimately get a nice piece of commercial property. Somewhere along the line I’d like to do what Brandon Turner did and get a property for my daughter to pay for her college.
I hope to find a mentor in my area willing to teach me as I’m eager to learn any and everything I can about this business.
Thank you all for your time and devotion to reading the life story I’ve written above. I hope you all have an awesome rest of your weekend!
-Jacques
