I thought I didn’t have much to share but it turns out I have a lot of opinions and it’ll go to waste if I don’t publish it for the world to read. I want to try out a lot of things in life and it’ll be unfortunate if I can’t look back to remember all successes and failures.

I started surfing the internet in 4th or 5th grade doing nothing useful. I could have been learning how to program as a kid but there weren’t resources online like there are today. I graduated with a degree in Information Science ended up getting a tech adjacent job because it didn’t prepare me for the software engineering interviews. I actually got a software engineering job a few years after college by learning programming online (shoutout to freecodecamp for kicstarting my learning and the recurse center for fostering an amazing learning community).

I’m currently still working as a software engineer but starting to invest in real estate and finding ways to make money online. I got my real estate license some years back and have been helping friends and family buy and sell houses once a year.

I’ve always tried to find ways to decrease my living expenses and rent is a big chunk of that. You’re probably thinking that Boston’s mortgage is usually higher than rent at the moment (in 2024), and you’re right if we’re just looking at a single family home that you don’t plan to rent out. So, I bought a multi-family house where I plan to rent out 4 bedrooms and live in the other 2 bedroom unit with my friend/co-investor. Although it may not cover the full mortgage, our out of pocket will be between $1000 to $2000 between the two of us which is way better than the $4000 we were paying for our 2 bedroom 2 bathroom, and the rents just keep going up.

I’m here to share my money making journey as a software engineer and through investing in real estate. My goal is to be able to earn a living without having to depend on a 9-5 job that requires me to go into the office. I’m aiming for digital nomad capabilities.