Ben Kevan

I am a very driven person, that strives to know the most in everything I attempt. I never go into anything to fail, and will surround myself in the required knowledge to succeed. I have a trained in Wrestling, Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts (amateur level). I live in Northern California, and have a primary source of income doing something that I've grown to love, with a company that has treated me well. I hope to utilize Real Estate Investing to help diversify my long term retirement strategy, and if I fall in love (like I have so far), then I hope to utilize is for a stream of secondary income (funding new deals, as I would keep my primary job). California doesn't have the returns I'm currently looking for with a buy and hold property, nor do I have the current capital for 20% down which banks are requiring. I plan to hold a property in my living area (4 plex+ would be great), but right now I am looking out of state and utilizing local property managements and contractors to support me in my ventures. I currently work in the IT Industry as a Sr. Systems Administrator supporting Virtualization technologies and Linux (and various applications surrounding Linux). It's a field that I got into on a whim and without any training, and have fallen in love (which is strange, since out side of work, I don't care about computers in the sense as I would at work).