Hello,My name is Nickiesha Bartley I am 21 years old and I have recently gained interest in the real estate industry.

I would weigh my 'significant equity' and at least consider selling for a tax-free gain.  

My goals are realistic, I'm looking for a way to gain passive income 15 yrs from now and get out of the 7-4 monday-friday grind.I hope you guys catch my point since it's somewhat vague and look forward to any ideas, thoughts or input!

With that, I would like to finish this post off saying that I am extremely excited about the future in real estate investing, and I'd like to say thank you to all of you who take time out of your busy day to help us newbies try to gain an understanding on such an interesting and exciting subject as real estate investing!

I look forward to gaining all the info I can from the site and doing some Joint Ventures.

I am a not new to bigger pockets but I finally decided to take some action and I got my first wholesale deal under contract looking forward to networking with investors and gain more knowledge.

It took me months to compile industry and local market data, and a strategy to be successful, but the end result was that my few months of diligence lead me to gaining knowledge that people who have been in the same industry for years didn't have.

And I wouldn't consider myself an expert but if you contribute property instead of cash, your contribution is equal to the value of the property not necessarily what you bought it for so it's important to know the value of what you contribute so only the gains are split 50/50 if you thought it could be worth different than what you bought it for.

With my long term goal set on gaining passive income to provide for my family in retirement and beyond, your words of wisdom will be invaluable.  

Looking to gain a lot of useful knowledge from everyone here!