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My name is Carey (and that up there is me with my nephew, by best friendship, Andrew.) I live in the Southern Chester County area of Pennsylvania. Not too much out here but cows, the Amish and their horse and buggys! But I like it. I live with my partner of 3 years, Kathy, her 9 yr. old son and 17 yr. old son, my 3 cats and her 1 kitten. Sooooo it’s a full house from time to time.

I’ve been investing in real estate since 1999. I started investing in mobile homes (Lonnie deals) and then moved to single family homes. I’ve pretty much done it all; rehabs, lease options, shortsales, wholesales, flips, landlording, etc. I’m still currently a landlord (and always will be) and I still am investing in real estate. I prefer to wholesale but I have no problems with flipping a house the good ‘ole fashion way as well.

I’ve actually changed my real estate investing focus as of January 2010. I am now, officially, on a quest to buy apartment buildings. That has become a main focus because I’m more interested in accumulating passive income streams for myself so that I can finally be free of having to figure out how to make “active income” to live. And most importantly, so I can be free to spend time with Kathy and my friends and family instead of “working.” And I’ve decided if I don’t focus on this entirely now…then when?

So my main focuses are strictly passive income streams. The atm’s are still going strong and I’ll continue placing them and collecting my monthly profit from them and now I’m adding buying apartment buildings to the passive income stream mix and I am psyched!!!

Prior to investing, I’ve done a lot of things. I’ve been in sales for many years, I’ve been in broadcasting (did radio, tv and was an avid editor at one point.) I’ve got a customer service background as well. I tend to think of myself as intelligent, humorous and generally anything but you’re typical lesbian! (Yes, I’m gay. Surprise!) Oh one more thing; I tend to ramble….A LOT!

Basically, I started this blog to let folks know that anyone can do this real estate investing thang as long as you DO SOMETHING! And yes I said anyone….it doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, female, male, straight, gay, poor, rich, etc. It can be done if you put in the effort.

I’ll share my journey with you so you can say: “Hey, if that white lesbian chick who lives in the stix can do it, than so can I!” But I do expect to hear of your successes, please.

Flippin’ Carey