Newbie in Southwest Missouri (Joplin/Neosho)

[Chad Adams]

Hi everyone,

My name is Chad Adams, I'm brand new to real estate investing.  My day job is creating custom software for small to medium sized businesses.

I've always loved real estate and considered investing several times, but life always seemed to get in the way.

I'm almost 40, have been married for 18 years, have two kids (ages 13 and 11).

My only real experience with real estate has been my own primary residence. In those 18 years of marriage I've lived in 8 different houses. And of those I've sold 3 of them FSBO. We've never lost money on a house, so guess you could say I've done 7 really slow flips :-)

My goals are to acquire 12-20 free & clear properties (or units if we do small multi families) over the course of the next 20 years. I'm looking for retirement income through buy and hold rental properties.

Chad