All Forum Posts by: Micah M.

@Account Closed Thanks Boris! 

@Ethan Cooke @Jason Ong I love Brisbane as well. The location is awesome even if public transport is not direct. Location is beautiful. Largest problem is only 2 elementary schools, one good, one horrible (at least according to rankings info I can find), so it's basically a coin-toss for your kids (I have 1 in elementary, and another that will be in K in 2 years). Still trying to get data about how difficult it is to get your kids into the good school, and how expensive it would be to mitigate downside school risk by going private for 1-X years (could get expensive if BOTH are in private!!!) 

Anyway...just my early thoughts. 

@Ethan Cooke I still need to dig around northern Pacifica more. What I saw in the Southern end didn't impress me at all, with the exception of Vallemar, which was great, but very few buying opps!

@Ethan Cooke Thanks for the warm welcome and the tips about other investor meetups. Fair warning. I'm probably 6 months away from pulling the trigger on anything...here mostly for education at the moment. 

Thanks @Aziz Raji

@Tom Ott Thanks for the kind welcome message!

@Arlen Chou Thanks for the kind welcome message and the great meetup recommendations. Will check them out for sure!

@J. Martin Great to e-meet you! I'm with you re: the market. I am trying to be optimistic but we'll see how much "house hacking" is possible and for how much $$$. May be "next next" spring, but at least I'll be in the flow a bit more. Otherwise, yes I work in biotech, though I'm more of a hardware / energy guy. However, the South City stereotypes exist for a very excellent reason!  

Will definitely take your advice re: meetups, though probably in a few months once I can have a half-intelligent conversation :) 

I think that Pacifica has brilliant potential as a suburb for SF b/c you can drive a short distance and hop on BART. The problem with Pacifica is that it is NOT kid friendly. I drove around the entire area a few months ago and wasn't impressed. Very few playgrounds. Very few good schools. Maybe some diamonds in the rough, but I also want to raise my kids there, so I'm trying to thread a very find needle. I'd rather do a fixer-upper in Burlingame :)

Thanks again for the thoughtful note!

@Ariel Smith Thanks for the kind welcome message!

Hi Guys: My name is Micah and I live in Mountain View, CA in the "South" part of the Bay Area. I'm the VP of Finance at a venture backed startup in South San Francisco. 

I just joined to begin the process of getting up to speed on getting into my first property. I plan to begin aggressively looking for properties in the spring, esp. 2-5 unit "house hacking" opportunities.  I will be targeting the Redwood City to Millbrae corridor on the Peninsula, though may consider going further North as well (e.g. Brisbane) or more exotic (e.g. Pacifica). 

Not ready for any service provider intro's at this time, but if anyone else is scratching the same itch on the investor/developer side of things, could be fun to touch base and compare notes. 

Look forward to learning more in the months to come!

Warm Regards,

Micah