Hello Everyone, my name is Joel Phipps and I first heard about bigger pockets last year from my buddy Nasar Elarabi while we were at a rei conference in Dominican Republic...

A buddy of mine that I went to high school with and I are looking to BRRR as well.

So, I borrowed some money and a buddy of mine helped me to flip a house.

Congrats buddy it looks great! 

Taxes this past year was $1,893.00 which are escrowed in the first loan and maintenance fees are $395.00 monthly.I currently rent out the condo for $1200 a month I basically am at break even after paying the mortgage and maintenance fees.I have money saved, around 125K that I was using to flip homes with a buddy but we are parting ways and I am trying to figure out if I want to still try to use the money for flipping with my brother in law now or get into more rentals for monthly income since my day job is not doing so well.  

Good luck buddy!

So a buddy of mine was explaining a way he thought I could avoid title seasoning on double closings.

Everybody needs an accountability buddy!

It might work, or I have even had them give me a name of a buddy that might be smaller and able to give better pricing.

The only thing I know about Oakland is the war stories my buddy who grew up from Oakland told me about dodging bullets (literally). =)So why did I stopped investing in REI after that?