All Forum Posts by: Srini Rajamani

Thank you @Min Zhang @Raymond J. Rodrigues

@Bradley Buxton - THanks for the note of encouragement.... These forums are so friendly!! Luckily, my wife is in a good W2 job in tech - so I think my bases are covered. Over the years, I've built up decent cushion in stocks and retirement accounts - I'm right now trying to figure out where to get started... There are so many options - Primary residence HELOC, Stock portfolio Loan, SDIRA / IRA LLC..., conventional loan.... not to mention STR vs LTR etc... but not clear which one to start with. A lot of the advice I am seeing here and other places seems to oriented towards younger newbies - For ex: - house hacking or BRRR - these are not appealing to me. Also my time horizon is shorter (about 10 years is when i want to retire or atleast slow down quite a bit)...

@Jared Smith  At this point, I feel I'd like to explore other business ideas I have (including real estate) before going back to tech.  I;ve done the corporate grind for 25 years - time to do something else ... :)

I'm looking to do out of state investing (I feel CA is too over priced/out of my reach at this time).  So far - markets I am looking at - FL (orlando), TX, GA and NC....  I'm in the knowledge gathering phase - more time I spend here in BP and other online sources, more I am realising there is a lot more to this than simply buying something off of redfin and renting out...  :)

Hi Everyone
I am a newbie to the world of real estate investing.  My knowledge and subsequent track record has been one of basically following the wagon of friends and family(which as you can imagine has turned out to be a disaster).  Only recently discovered BiggerPockets and other fantastic resources available.  I look forward to learning from the veterans here....

My interest is mainly in STR and LTR investments with the goal of eventually replacing the income from a tech job i left recently...