All Forum Posts by: Kyle Curtin

@Joseph Nelson

Check out the “meetup” app on the AppStore, it shows meetups for just about everything and there are always a bunch of real estate investing related ones (at least in my area) and I have had pretty good success with it.

@Daniel Haberkost

Thank you so much for the advice, it really means a lot. I do understand that most people are not really interested in helping people with no value to them, and I totally understand. I want to offer value to investors/ private lenders ect. but I am not sure what I have that they do not have already, I am trying to read the bigger pockets books for analyzing properties and running CMA's. I assume the value I would give is to be sending analyzed properties to few investors and going from there.

Hi everyone! I just wanted to see if anyone had any advice for learning more real estate investing more efficiently.

A little backround:

I am 19 and do HVAC as my 40hr/ wk full time job and am a licensed Realtor on the side. I decided I want to work in the investment property side of the industry, as that is why I wanted to jump in the first place. I have only been with a brokerage since October of 2019 and have not had any sales, but also have not been doing very much with it.

I have decided that my first property will be a duplex roughly around my area that I will certainly house hack.

I am really trying to learn this industry and I listen to the BiggerPockets podcast everyday to and from work, read the bigger pockets books/ and am starting to look at properties and figuring out how to analyze them.

I also have recently started going to meetups in my area once in a while in hopes of meeting people who have many cashflowing properties and/ financially free ect.

I just opened a credit card today and have no credit at all, so it may be a while before I could get a loan for the duplex. :(

Is there anything else that I can be doing while saving up for a down payment and learning?

Thank you,

Kyle

@John Neff I have read a ton of real estate/ investing books, but the ones that really hit home and made an impact were "rich dad poor dad" by Robert Kiyosaki, the BRRR book by bigger pockets, "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George Clayson, "How to make friends and influence people" by Andrew Carnegie, and "Think and grow rich" by Napolean Hill. The first two are obviously real estate related, and the other 3 are more mindset related but absolutely amazing and essential to success!

@Hector Rodriguez That’s extremely cool, my cousin bought a duplex in Lowell not too long ago and I have been interested in that market from what I have heard.

Are there any real estate investing groups that you attend at all in the area?

When you go to pre qualify for a conventional loan, do they check other assets (stocks, Roth IRA value, ect) besides credit?