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@Johnson H.

Is everyone in SF jumping on the Bay View bandwagon? I'm going to have to look into this myself too!

Well, you and I know @Amit. I just met someone else yesterday (online, responding to my rental ad) who just got his offer accepted last Friday. Our friend is putting a bid on a house there as well.

I guess bottomline is, where in SF can you get a remodelled 3-bedroom house wiht nice backyard for under a Mil? BV has great weather, access to 101, 280, not far from 80 only a T-line away from the DP (Dogpatch) and Fi-Di.

We are definitely very happy with this buy. Renting it out for now, with the thought of moving in in the next 2 years!

@J. Martin

Thank you! I was so bummed that I couldn't make it to your get together. Was dying to see your new purchase!

I couldn't put in words how happy I was and still am with the way Wells Fargo and Linda Wong and Renee Mickelson helped every step of the way.

After that Citimortgage nightmare, I have even more appreciation dealing with people who are very professional with great work ethics. Those citimortgage people I woked with, disappeared on me in the middle of things, when we were like 3 weeks behind the original closing date!

Too bad you won't be there for the 6/19! But hope to catch up soon. I don't know how you could have that much energy between full time job and all these deals going on. And I can't believe you are puchasing the 4plex right now! Hahhaa.. keeps me inspired tho.

@Johnson H.

Yeah, avoid Citi - that's my best advice to anyone :)

Very excited with the new purchase. We closed today but it's uneventful since the seller rents the place back until end of July.

Actually we were not planning to buy another place, at least not per last month. But after joining the BP nations we got pretty inspired. And @Amit (hey how come I couldn't tag Amit?) buying in the Bayview sealed the deal for us. We went ahead and bought. This buying stuff is addictive, I tell ya :)

I posted here before of my painful experience dealing with CitiMortgage for my condo conversion refinance in San Francisco.

I just signed closing papers yesterday for another property my husband and I just purchased (also in SF), and am still in awe of how painless the financing process was. It took us 18 days to close - record speed! Everything went so smooth with no last minute surprise.

Anyway, I'm not sure if it is ok for me to post the mortgage person's contact here, but I'll try anyway :)

Her name is Linda Wong, from Wells Fargo.

Hope this helps. I just wished I would have used her for that condo refi!

Awesome @Johnson H. ! Thanks for the invite - I'll be there plus one!

Thanks for the invite, @J. Martin ! I'm dying to make it there to view first hand your latest acquisition! Too bad we'll be SJ next week :(

I just signed up for the Meetup tho - thanks for tagging me for that. Can't wait to make it to the next event!

My husband said the iphone is the extension of my left arm!

We're meeting with 5 property managers tomorrow so hopefully soon enough I could be just like @Amit M. with his mini ipad!

Bumping this since it is very ispirational to me as a newbie, so thought it would do the same to other newbies.

Too bad I didn't find this forum much earlier. We just started actively investing in RE just 2 years ago, although we started renting by accident a few years before then. We are doing quite well so far and hubby actually quit his job 4 months ago and I'm following suit in the next few months to make it full time in RE. We do have some reserve to make sure we can make the ends meet but were confident that we'll make more opportunities by not having full time job and be more focused on RE.

Just realized I posted this in the old posting :)

That was such a great event! My first so far and look forward to many more.

Thanks again, @J Martin for inviting me. Great chatting with@Johnson H. , @Claire, and @Yu Lam, and I really enjoyed meeting with @Amit M. and learned LOTS in just a few minutes chat with him. I'm hoping to see more of you guys. Maybe we should have another SF meet up soon. Hahaha.. that's how hungry and thirsty I am of all your knowledge!

That was such a great event! My first so far and look forward to many more.

Thanks again, @J. Martin and learned LOTS in just a few minutes chat with him. I'm hoping to see more of you guys. Maybe we should have another SF meet up soon. Hahaha.. that's how hungry and thirsty I am of all your knowledge!

@J. Martin Thanks for inviting, I'm in and briging hubby along!