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[Zach Leveling]

First I would like to thank the creators of this site and everyone else for your input and real world experience. It is so helpful and I appreciate everything. 

My name is Zach Leveling. I'm from Belleville, Il about 30 min east of STL, MO. I am 25 married, no kids. I work for Toyota as a Automotive Technician. 

I have been interested in real estate investing for a long time now, but I'm finally ready to pull the trigger. Im interested in holding and flipping to be exact. I have read almost everything I can find on the subject, but I know there is still so much more to learn.

My goals right now are:

1. Sell current home

2. Purchase a duplex and live on one side.

3. Buy a stationary home for family and rent out both sides of the duplex. 

4. Im not 100% after this, maybe start flipping

Please let me know what you think or if there is a better way to go about it. Also I forgot to mention that I would like to eventually transition to a full time investor/flipper from my current job. Thats more like my 10 year plan though!