New investor from Albany NY area

[Ryan Vienneau]

Hi All!  I'm an investor living in the greater Albany NY area (Ballston Lake, near Saratoga).  I bought my first house when I was 21, a distressed 2-family that I lived in while repairing and had renters paying 2/3 of the mortgage.  I sold the property after 4 years at a surprising profit, bought a single family home as our primary residence (also distressed) and intended on purchasing more rentals/flips immediately, but that happened to be around 2008 when all the lenders vanished overnight so that got put on hold.  Then came marriage, baby, new job, and various other typical excuses that prevented me from making the jump back into real estate, but now I'm back and making the plunge!  

Thanks to all for the great posts on here, I've been a reader and student of BP for years.