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I am plant operations manager in the oil production/manufacturing sector.

Hi Everyone!  I work and live in Hong Kong (the most expensive RE in the world) but grew up in Southern California.  I have had some RE experience in the past owning properties in New York , Los Angeles, and Hong Kong...

Home to The Ohio State University with nearly 60,000 students, 5 fortune 500 companies, over +25% population change since 2000, 2016 smart city challenge award winner gaining 50 million dollars in funding from the government ( https://www.columbus.gov/smartcity/), Intel is spending 20 Billion dollars to build two semiconductor plants, and many many more great things presently and coming in the future.

Columbus has a huge chip processing plant being built on the east side so that would be a good target area to look at investing if you can. 

I can also offer website services to them free of charge because of my company and I’m planning to get my RE license too, as I’ll state in a step below.Step 3| Continue running my business — I have removed myself from it enough that I’m only working a few hours a day — this will allow me to work for free for my mentor and still bring in money to support my family.Step 4 | Get my RE license so I can:a) buy houses of the MLS and save on commissionb) be a part-time agent to make cash on the side while making connectionsc) add even more value to my mentor by having access to MLS and the ability to make offers on properties.Step 5 | Use our $120k to buy a home (planning to find a good deal and rehab — of course — but we will settle down in the home, not sell it for profit and move the next year… we want to plant our roots.Step 6 | Refi cash out of the house to use for my first deals when the time is right.

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. 

@Erika Geoffrey, I am a local agent and investor in Utica new york. we are a small but growing citie of about 80k people with lots of new economice development ($500M Hospital, $500M auto chip manufacturing plant, as well as over 2M sqft of new WH and distribution space.I would love to talk to anyone more and discuss the opportunities here.  

The first time resulted in replacing the screen door closer (6 months old), the front porch light fixture (3 months old), giving up on two dead trees in the front yard I had planted 6 months prior, a roof leak, and drywall ceiling repair. 

Home to an Intel plant.