All Forum Posts by: Paulino Gonzalez

Hello

I read a book called ABC’s of Real estate investing, and it went over market research but it wasn’t specific.

So I still don’t really understand how to find good real estate markets.

I know a couple of the things to look for, like population, jobs, new developments, “personality”, etc.

However I’ve tried to do that but I still don’t get it.

How do I find that information and how do I set meetings with officials, professionals to check if what I learned is correct?

Thank you!

@AJ H. Thank you! So any skills aren’t there at the moment. However, I have a long list of books on real estate.

I have a handful of different into books, a couple flipping, and some other handful of different types. I want to get a couple different angles from them.

I also am interested in reading books from foreign investors. Because If they can do it and be profitable, that can be applied in many ways.

Anyways. The books I’m interest most right now are valuation books and market analysis. They are the majority of the books.

Do you think if I get real good at valuation and market analysis I can quickly create a team and find plenty of investors?

I know books doesn’t mean much compared to experience but they still hold their worth.

Thank you!

(The majority is an into to myself. You can just skip to the bottom if you want to get to the question)

My name is Pulino Gonzalez. I will be 18 in a week.

I’m an Early college students so I’ve gotten to experience college earlier which allowed me to mature a little quicker.

This is my last term in Early college, I will be graduating high-school.

I will continue to go to college to get a real estate license and a business or finance bachelors.

Anyways, I want to get into real estate as fast as I can(without cutting corners) to quickly build a portfolio.

I want to go into commercial RE as an 18 year old if possible(not because of age just because I want to get started as soon as I can. Doesn’t have to be 18. It’s just kind of a idea)

While that’s in progress

I want to have at least 5 residential properties, but once I hit that I’ll start looking for commercial ones more aggressively .

This is where my question comes:

How can an 18 year old secure invests for a commercial deal?

If you were me, what would you do?

Thank you!