All Forum Posts by: Brad Semenoff

Wow this thread is great! Thanks @Courtney M. for posting this question as I am in a similar situation and the posts in this thread are very eye opening. 

Thanks for the tips @Derek Janssen! It would be great to meet up sometime. 

Hi @Johnson Michael. Yes it would be great to connect and share tips and experiences about the process. 

Have you singled out a market to invest in? That seems to be my current stumbling block since it all seems a little overwhelming. I think I just need to pick a few markets to research that others have had success in and just dive in and start analyzing deals and looking for connections. The first deal doesn’t need to be a homerun, it just needs positive cash flow to get the ball rolling for future investments. 

Wow thanks for the wealth of resources, @Account Closed! I’ve read Long Distance Real Estate Investing, but I definitely want to do a more thorough reading and take notes this time. :) 

I'll add all those podcast episodes to my player for my commute! I'm very interested in learning more about the tax advantages of REI, so I'm glad that you included those tax related episodes. Great info!

Thanks again! 

Hello Bigger Pockets! 

My name is Brad Semenoff and I am a relative newbie when it comes to real estate investing. I say relative because I was lucky enough to keep our first townhouse as a rental unit when my wife and I bought our current home, so I've been a landlord for about 5 years now. I went through my first eviction last year and that's when I realized that I wanted to learn more about Real Estate Investing and being a landlord so that it wouldn’t happen again, which led me to Bigger Pockets. I've been reading BP books and attending the webinars to learn as much as I can since then, but it's time to put myself out there and start trying to take action!

I am a father of two young boys and husband of an amazing work-at-home mom. I work on a freelance basis in the film industry and am looking to use long term buy and hold investing as a way to supplement my main work income so that I can spend more time with my family and less time worrying about finding the next gig. My plan is to buy two to three SFH's a year for a few years to get my feet wet before eventually moving to small multi-family houses.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, so investing locally is mostly out of the question. I’m looking to invest in out of state markets that are more within my financial reach. I’m hoping to learn more about which markets might be a good fit for long distance investing and what criteria I should look for. Any links to threads or blog posts along those lines would be very much appreciated!

Thanks for reading this and I look forward to chatting with you all!