Excited Real Estate Investor and Blogger Brand New to Steemit

I am super excited to join Steemit! As soon as I saw what Steemit was about I knew it was a great fit for me. I will tell you a little about myself, why I think steemit is perfect for me, and what I hope to contribute.

I have done very well in real estate in the US, specifically Colorado. I flip houses, own rentals, am a real estate agent, and write a blog: https://investfourmore.com.

I am a little late to the crypto game, but started learning more about it the last few months. I bought some mainstreem (pun intended) crypto; bitcoin, litecoin, Ether, but knew I wanted in on something different.

I started researching unique crypro currencies and found Streemit. It was all about writing and sharing, which I love to do. I write on my blog a couple times a week and routinely on Quora as well. One thing I really like about Streemit is I know what it is! I understand how it works, which I cannot say about most crypto currencies. I love the concept and see others do as well. I have been super excited too join and actually wrote this a few days before I was officially accepted.

A little about me. I was born into a real estate family. My dad was an agent since before I was born. I remember sleeping under his desk in his office as I was growing up. When I got to high school and college I wanted nothing to do with real estate. I wanted to do my own thing so I got a degree in business finance from the University of Colorado.

After I graduated I could not find an awesome job in the finance industry that would pay me what I thought I deserved. This was 2001, and I was a naive 22 year old. I decided to work part-time for my father to pay the bills. I moved into an apartment in a building my sister managed. I was the on-site manager so I could save money on rent. I realized I loved real estate as soon as I got into the business. I got my license, sold houses, and helped my dad with the occasional flip.

I did okay as an agent, but loved to flip houses. Eventually I ended up becoming a REO and HUD listing agent. I sold foreclosures for banks. I started to make really good money and got to a point where I was selling 200 houses a year. I figured out buying rentals was the best was to invest my money and I bought my first one in 2010.

I ended up buying 16 residential rentals from 2010 to 2015 and then took a break because housing prices increased so much here. This year I bought four more rentals, but they were all commercial properties.

In 2013 I bought out my dad and took over the team. We were flipping 4 to 7 houses a year at the time, but he was pretty conservative. I upped that number every year and in 2017 I completed 26 flips.

My foreclosure listing business disappeared as the market improved, but I hired a few agents to sell houses on the team. I do not sell hardly any houses as an agent anymore, but my team does an amazing job. I hired my best friend from college to run the team. He was in the corporate world and sick of that life.

In 2013 I also started InvestFourMore.com. It was a blog to discuss rentals. The name is a play on words since it is tough to get loans on more than four properties. I had not written anything since college, but found out I love writing and sharing what I knew. I had no idea what I was doing and had no plan. I just wrote. As I wrote more and more people started to find me and comment. Google picked up a bunch of my articles and I quickly had 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 and then 100,000 unique visitors a month. I expanded my writing to cover flipping, being an agent, and many other real estate subjects.

Once I had the traffic I started to monetize the blog. Over time I built it into a $10,000 to $20,000 a month business. Here is how I make money with it now:

I have published 6 paperback books, audiobooks and eBooks:
https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Ferguson/e/B00FP1LZ1C

I have coaching programs

I have affiliates

I have tried google adsense and other advertising programs with limitted success.

The blog has over 450 articles now, I do a weekly podcast, and have a YouTube channel with 10,000 subscribers. I show just about every property I buy on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/InvestFourMore

I suppose that is enough of me jabbering for now. If anyone is looking for advice on real eatate let me know in a comment and I will start posting.

Oh, and I love cars. I have the following:
2010 Audi S4
1986 Porsche 928
1991 Ford Mustang 5.0 supercharged
1998 Lotus Esprit V8
1999 Lamborghini Diablo

I read all the instructions and will make sure to post this to my Facebook page and other social media as well.
https://www.facebook.com/InvestFourMore/

I also thought I would include a couple videos of a recent flip I did. Before and after.