Hey everyone, my name is Peter Firehock, and I work in Alexandria Virginia as an Acquisitions Associate for a real estate investment fund called BPG Holdings, helping the fund source multi-family investment opportunities in Northern Virginia and D.C.m as well as an investment-focused realtor in the D.C.

Right now, we’ve been able to keep rooms rented as we turnover the empty ones, but I am having trouble figuring out if this is the best strategy. 

Short term rentals are not real estate, they are the hospitality business.

Surely the mighty NY real estate industry has stakeholders with deep pockets and an army of attorneys to work on this thing, no?

My goal is to buy my family home (wife and 2 kids) in about a year, but don't want to wait a year to get started on Real Estate investing if I don't have to. 

I generally use cash to invest but the real estate market is very depressed right now and my portfolio is diversified in BTC cryptocurrencies focusing mainly on gold short term trading on top of state metals 

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Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

So, I'm very comfortable in the construction space.My husband and I have been investing in real estate for 5 years, currently have 14 units.My strength has been value engineering our construction projects. 

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?