Hey Scott, I too love making diamonds out of coal!

Mike Hurney, we have a lot of landlords in our Black Diamond group, and I've never heard of that requirement either.

Find them through Google and meetup.com There is the free Waltham Black Diamond one and a paid one in Rockland shoot me an email if you want info on this one.Two Great reads, I bought both J.

You can check out the Eastern Mass REIA in Rockland and coming up towards the city you can look at the Boston REIA in Dedham and my personal favorite the Black Diamond meeting in Waltham.  

Anyways, I'm currently in the diamond bar/chino hills/walnut area and am looking for two specific things.

Because you succeed with the househack, you are well-positioned, and also highly motivated to go after another property...rinse and repeat, and in 5-6 years, you have 5-6 cashflowing, (hopefully) appreciating, relatively easy to manage LTR single family homes.  ...or, perhaps you go into STRs after you househack--in which case, you will be much better-positioned and much more well-prepared to succeed with the STR (because you'll have the invaluable experiences gained from your previous househack).In skiing, we don't take beginners down double black diamond trails--doing that would endanger them and other people in the area.

@Andrew Pettit there are a lot of us here on BP, and you can also find many at local real estate meetups such as RIREIG and Black Diamond REI.Do you have your first deal yet, or are you looking for someone to help you find and do that first deal (i.e., a mentor)?

@Derek Diamond Thanks for the advice!

Thank you for your reply @Derek Diamond.

@Derek Diamond thanks so much for replying!