Newbie in Springfield, OH

[Jeremiah Perkins]

Hello BiggerPockets Community!

My name is Jeremiah Perkins. I’m an accountant working in the automotive industry in Ohio. I’ve been in Ohio about five years, but I’ve lived in several states including Virginia, West Virginia, and South Carolina.

I joined BiggerPockets in 2017 and I knew back then that I wanted to eventually invest in real estate. My wife and I are working on some short-term financial goals, so we are still a couple years out from being ready to invest. Once we are ready, our plan is to aggressively go all in money wise. In the meantime, I'm learning as much as I can about the BRRRR process and hopefully will meet some contacts for the future.

Our first real estate investing goals are to generate enough income to cover our monthly bills and then both of our salaries on top of that. I want to eventually turn this into my full-time job. I’m very eager to start but its probably a good thing that I can’t yet and keep researching and learning.

[Angie Shires]

@Jeremiah Perkins I'm sure you already know, but this is a great forum to learn! How far are you away from making your first deal? Are you running the numbers on properties now, just for practice? 

It took us a couple of years of educating ourselves and saving before we jumped in this year. Glad we did, and as everyone says...we wish we'd done it years ago. You're going to make mistakes, but that's part of it! My suggestion, for what it's worth, is to look at properties (at least online), even though you aren't ready...know the market you want to invest in and run numbers as often as you can!