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Best ones to check out are the Black Diamond meetings.

You should check out the Black Diamond meeting in Waltham, there is also the Boston Area REIA in Medford, being in Quincy the Eastern Mass REIA meetings in Rockland and Taunton would be pretty easy for you to get out to.

It helps if you are a minority(ex: woman, black, gay) 3.

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Most of this can be addressed by using a black marker and marking out the address.

For general real estate investing, my own group, Black Diamond, url in my signature, offers free meetings in Worcester on the 3rd Tuesday. 

Since you are willing to come up this way the Boston AREIA is a good one to hit (FYI if you haven't been recently they moved to Medford) and definitely go to the Black Diamond meeting in Waltham (Only probably a few minutes longer to get to than the old BAREIA location).Keep going through all the podcasts.  

I'd make sure to get to the Black Diamond meeting in Waltham (2nd location in Worcester).  

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