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New Member from Worcester, Massachusetts
Hi! My name is Shawna Curran. I've spent the last 12 years in the software development industry where I currently still work. Last year my husband made a decision to be a stay at home dad and the return on that choice has been tremendous. We are far less stressed and my husband has been making some wonderful connections and memories with the children. We've decided that it would be wonderful if I were home more often as well and so I've chosen real estate investing as our avenue for financial independence.
I’m interested in learning as much as possible about flipping, wholesaling and buy and hold properties in order to settle on the direction I want to go in and where to start. This is a great site and of course there’s a TON of information so I’m taking the time to make my way through the material. I welcome any advice or guidance!
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Hi Shawna, welcome to BP.
This is a great place to learn. Make sure to listen to all the BP podcasts, read the articles on the main blog and be active in these forums to learn a ton very quickly about any topic in real estate you want to know more about.
This is also a great place to meet people that can be assets to your business. Lots of great connections all over but we also have a very strong and active contingent here in MA on here so make sure to find them (Set up some keyword alerts to find out about local topics) and get connected.
Besides doing that on here make sure to get out to some of the many local investor events we have. As Paul mentioned you want to go to the Black Diamond meeting there in Worcester for sure (2nd meeting in Waltham). That is really the only game in town out that way. If you want to learn more on buy and holds there is the NWCLA in Fitchburg that is geared specifically to landlords. For general real estate meetings and REIAs you have lots of choices up and down the the length of the state if you come out towards Boston.