New to Austin

[Joe Kim]

New to Austin!

Not a new member to BP (so Josh/Brandon sorry if I'm posting in the wrong section)

But I'm interested in Austin, Texas for investing.  

Planning a mixed business/pleasure trip to Austin - first week of April. Given Amanda Han, CPA extraordinaire's podcast/recommendations, I want to plan ahead to possibly attend a local REIA, BP meeting, or at the very least meet up with other Investors, turnkey providers for a coffee meetup (on me!)

I'm a buy and hold investor with 8 properties under my belt...finishing up my 9th property in Atlanta in May (brand new construction).  I have properties in Houston and San Antonio currently.

I'm interested to see where Austin is going due the collision of high tech explosion combined with downturn of oil.

thanks,

Joe

[David Thompson]

Hi Joe,

Give me a shout for a coffee / chat when you get to Austin.  Can also give you some meetup groups you may want to attend.  I'm investing in both Austin and San Antonio and favor new construction and rehab in selected areas so we have some common ground.  FYI - Austin is doing fine (oil not impacting).  High Tech explosion has been here a while, it just continues to grow.  I came here to work for Dell in 1997 and it was known as Silicon Hills back then.  It's just more discovered and known than ever before.  It's getting pricey downtown (almost insane in some aspects) but job growth, diversity of industry and population growth is strong w/not much signs of letup yet.