All Forum Posts by: David Pere

Good Morning BP!

My name is Matt and before anything else, I’m stoked to finally post this bio and share my intentions with you all.

I’m enlisted in the US Air Force. I’m an E-5 married to another enlisted military member and we are currently stationed overseas at Misawa Air Base, Japan. I work in the Command and Control career field. I am still unsure if the military is going to be my long term (20 year) plan but I’m here and making the most of it every day! I even started my own small-scale moving business here in Japan.

I’m young-ish (27) and extremely motivated to get started in real estate investing.

Throughout the last year or so, I’ve been doing a lot of research, (books, podcasts, YouTube) along with meeting face to face with several enlisted members with real estate experience, all in the name of procuring as much knowledge as possible before diving in head first to our first property.

We are primarily interested in small multi-family housing in the near future with aspirations of scaling to commercial multi-family within the next 5-10 years.

I’d be very interested in learning more from investors who have experience investing in military towns, having military tenants, investing from overseas locations, and obviously, other enlisted (or officers) military members. I am passively involved in the ADPI (Active Duty Passive Income) community as well.

Currently, I do not have a particular market I want to pursue. We’re currently awaiting our next assignment notification and want to have that knowledge before buying.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I look forward to hearing from you and attending countless BP meetups in the future!

Thank you,

Matt Teegarden

Thanks for the mentions @Doug Spence @Rich Carey and @Chris Levarek I appreciate you all!

Matt, happy to help in any way. The Military Millionaire Community is all about helping service members and veterans learn how to build wealth through real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and personal finance. We've got tons of free content on YouTube, Facebook, etc. 

Over the last 5 years I've replaced my income through real estate, and am currently leaving active duty at 13 years to take it full time!

@David Pere good to hear! I have some family loving in Sherwood, well, maybe they still live there lol. It seems that there are quite a few from Arkansas on BP. If you don’t mind me asking, when did you start investing into real estate? We’re you already in or did you start before?

Welcome to BP! Check out @David Pere's Military to Millionaire content. Great for service members looking to break into real estate.

Well there are/might be 2 obstacles...one the VA loan may need to be owner occupied for the life of the loan...maybe just a year. But on top of that in Orlando you'll have to check as the shortest lease term depending where you buy may be 7 months. A lot of areas don't want the weekly Tennant atmosphere. Just do your DD before you purchase:-)