My 5 year goal is to become a professional real estate fund manager.I happen to live in NYC where there is a large concentration of people with 7 figure incomes who often have a difficult time obtaining a more than nominal return on their at-risk/disposable capital.

Hello everyone,  Paul Brodeur here, just wanted to introduce myself here on Bigger pockets, I am from north Grosvenor dale Connecticut which borders central Massachusetts,  I am fairly new to real estate investing but it  has become my passion ,  I have been listening to the BP podcasts and have learned so much from them , I have owned a few rental properties in the past but had no idea what I was doing to be honest, I made a lot of mistakes and wish I would have found a place like BP back then , currently I am concentrating on finding fix and flips and wholesale deals in my northeast Connecticut and central Massachusetts areas, I am looking to learn and network and build great business relationships , thank you for looking at my post 

If you're interested in some multifamily in the midwest let me know that is my 2017 concentration.

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It doesn’t address market correlations and characteristics for example such as if you had a geographically diverse portfolio but heavily concentrated toward growth markets, you would almost certainly get hit if growth markets took a hit even if you bought 3,000 notes.

I gave up the job I hated (i wasn't as fortunate as my brother is in that regard) and cash flow for me is where I concentrate as that's how I pay for date night!

Interesting to hear about the AC - I know one thing I'm going to struggle with is not adding all of the things so I need to concentrate on learning what features will add enough value to justify the cost in my market.

This time around I am concentrating on flips, and have 2 homes I'm flipping at the moment.

Some areas you can concentrate your efforts in are 1) Ruskin - New amazon warehouse employing several hundreds of people here2) Lithia / Fishhawk area - Great schools but beware of high CDD + HOA + Property taxes that'll eat into your COC return3) Winter Garden - Booming market in orange county, has a new hospital and several new business coming up.  

Or should I just walk away and concentrate on renting the one property we have under contract?