Remember, the real estate community is a great resource for support and guidance along the way.Good luck!

It’s refreshing to see someone leveraging both traditional methods and community engagement... it’s a solid mix.

Quote from @Austin Wolff: As someone who lived in Los Angeles and also needed to invest out of state, I've dedicated my career to market analysis and selection, and I personally think you've chosen pretty good markets.

I'm excited for the opportunity to be apart of the community with BP, I reside in the state of Virginia and started my investment journey many years ago at 22 doing fix and flips, I stopped when the market crashed in 2007/2008 and didn't like the way the market looked and I left the investing world, I became a mortgage loan officer, and then processor and later underwriter and learned the backend of the conventional lending world.

Hi BiggerPockets community,We are a married couple based in the California Bay Area, both working as software engineers with a combined income of close to a Million USD.

My investment strategy did not change a bit, but I learned of this strategy and took advantage of it to save huge on taxes and wanted to share this with the investor community. 

A 4 bed 2 bath house can now not be niche for a family, but a community.

Section 8 works best for me when you can place a good tenant in a decent community.

As the 3rd largest MSA in the country it's hard to generalize the Chicago market as it's actually over 100 different submarkets when counting the 78 communities in Chicago property and then adding in the various suburbs, including in and around Naperville. 

Joining the community is a huge step towards reaching your RE goals.