I tried to buy a 40 acre piece, but the agent couldn't contact the sellers and I had a time deadline, so I found some river frontage and bought that instead.Gilcrest, Chemult, and probably DIamond lake will be listed on CentralOregonRealtors.com.

It was Bob Diamond.

- it's really fun to see a diamond in the rough take shape!

John, I'd recommend you attend one of your local real estate investment groups to make contacts, ask questions, and get pointers to local resources.I've been to both RI Real Estate Investor Group (http://www.rireig.com/) in Warwick RI and Black Diamond REI (http://www.blackdiamondrealestateinvestors.com/) in southern MA.Both are educational groups and don't subject you to sales pitches, which I have experienced in other groups over the years (none of which are still around, to my knowledge).And welcome to BP of course!

The median sales price is $292,500 — an increase of about 13 percent over the past year.South Austin is known for some of the city’s most iconic businesses, such as Broken Spoke, Lucy in Disguise with Diamonds and Maria’s Taco Express.Two other Austin neighborhoods are particularly popular.

REA says the building is soild but needs coesmetic work (Diamond in the ruff OR complete nightmare) if there was deferred maintance, would the price come right off the asking price?

Google Street View didn't show any signs of something that would be a huge difference between the two properties unless one has a diamond mine in the basement. 

We have done very well investing in houses that have turned lots of other people off, but we have seen it as a diamond in the rough.I certainly wouldn't do that with all of our properties but diversify into slightly more risky wit more reward.

Being in Newton you need to go to the Black Diamond meeting in Waltham (2nd location in Worcester) for sure.  

You can Google to locate them and go to meetup.com Nearby ones are in Dedham, Waltham Black Diamond I go to the Rockland meeting.Download BP’s newest book here some good due diligence and step by step what happens at a REIA meeting in Chapter 10.