Introducing Myself to the BiggerPockets Community

[Jonathan Berry]

My name is Jon. I’m a father, husband, and friend first and foremost.

My career has been primarily focused in a sales capacity, most recently in the enterprise Software-as-a-Service space. I have specialized in complex selling environments, solutions, and organizations, involving multiple stakeholders. Having to self-source deals has made me quite proficient in prospecting.

Leading discovery meetings has taught me how to be genuinely curious, ask the right questions, and qualify through disqualification.

Presenting solutions that align to key organizational initiatives has taught me to form hypothesis and bring point of views that pique curiosity and interest, as well as having a strong opinion that is loosely held to facilitate genuine conversation.

Navigating procurement has taught me the art and science of negotiation.

All of this has led me to now desire to focus these skillsets into the business of real estate procurement and investing.

My goal with real estate is to build generational wealth that I can share with my family and pass down to my children.

The strategy to get there is to use my own capital towards fix and flips to create more cash on hand to eventually begin buying and holding real estate to not only build net worth, but leverage debt to continue investing, and have others pay down my liabilities as I build equity.

I’m open to connecting with anyone in this space as my network is limited currently. But ultimately I’m hopeful to learn from others to eventually pay that forward and do the same for anyone hoping to make the same transition I am.

[Jason Wray]

Jonathan,

Sounds like a good plan one thing I would offer is consider looking at staying cash fluid and as mortgage rates continue to drop, use the Banks money.  If its a total "Fix & Flip" and will not pass an inspection having the ability to buy all cash does offer some benefits.