As you have probably seen, there are a lot of resources here on BP for both wholesaling and landlording (buy and hold).I would also recommend attending a local real estate investor group such as RIREIG in RI (monthly on 3rd Thursday; see http://www.rireig.com) or Black Diamond RE Investors in southern Mass (http://blackdiamondrei.com).And of course if you have specific questions feel free to post them here on BP :)

in SE MA there is Eastern Mass REIA in Rockland and Taunton, SouthShore REIA in Bourne, in Worcester there is Black Diamond, url in my signatureGo to as many as you can - a REIA in an area doesn't serve only that immediate geography.

Flowers are for funerals, buy diamonds you cheap skates!

At Black Diamond, we have at least 2 IRA companies who attend regularly, talk to them.  3. 

Maybe they find a lot of diamonds in the rough based on sheer numbers.

If you want to come up North a little I'd highly recommend checking out the Black Diamond meeting in Waltham.  

The big meeting to try to get to is the Black Diamond meeting out in Worcester.  

He had a frame made with expanded steel sheets (the diamond stuff) welded to the frame and set ancor bolts in the concrete slab and locks the cage over the AC unit when a property is vacant while working there.

You sift through alot of leads, but the diamonds come!

One way to avoid the grid look is to install your tile on a diagonal or diamond pattern when viewed from the main area.