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Ryan Murray
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Hello everybody, my name is Ryan Murray. I am turning 18 in 3 months and my goal is to become a fix and flipper, and to be able to flip my first house within 2 year of now. I am a relative beginner to real estate investing but I am very motivated to do it. I was hoping people could give me advice about what you would do if you were me and what you did when you were starting out. I live in Marin County CA so the housing price is defiantly above average and I would like to stay local, but I'm not opposed to anything. Ive also put in quite a bit of hours to wholesaling. Honestly, I lost motivation after my first contract didn't work out but Im definitely going to stay focused on that as well. Any advice that you can give would be amazing. Thank you!

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Peter Mckernan
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Great to see you starting early and asking the right questions! If I were you, I would search out in your market who is doing the flips (a lot of them). Once you find that person or a couple people I would see if they are hiring, and get into their company to learn from their processes and their systems. Also, it will give you some insight on how they are getting deals and how they price deals etc. That would be your best option for really being in a place to do your own flip in the next 2 years. 

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