There are many in the Boston area:My own Black Diamond, url in my signatureMassrealestate.net run by @Mike HurneyNEREIA.comBostonAREIA.comMyEasternMassREIA.comHouse Flipping School run by @Mike LaCavaBoston Investor Meetup run by @Justin SilverioThere are plenty of others, these are just some of them2. 

However, I do offer my investors another option should they wish to realize a real 10% return over a longer time periodLong Term with Monthly PaymentsI've carved out a unique niche in running "Recovery Houses" for recovering addicts & alcoholics (I've published more info on this at my REI Diamonds Podcast on iTunes).The Recovery House business (Recoverytown) produces larger than average cash flows from single family houses.  

The best one to get out to is the Black Diamond meeting in Worcester (they alternate every month with their Waltham location, April is a Worcester month).  

There are lots of MA investors, and you can meet a bunch of them at our Black Diamond event tonight in Waltham, url in my signature, it is free.

For a flipper it makes sense to look for the diamond in the ton of coal.

We have had a lot of success BRRR-ing in C-Class neighborhoods, it's a bit more work, but we've been able to pick up some really great deals, renovate them, and then find great tenants as our properties really are the only diamonds in these lower-income areas so there is always tons of interest and we are able to sort through and select top tier renters. 

Once you've done the reasearch, presented and had shot down several deals by us "gray hairs" and have truly stumbled onto a "unpolished diamond" you'll know it.At that point you'll have the money, the skills and the aptitude to "walk the talk".

I run a large group called Black Diamond which alternates between Waltham and Worcester, our last meeting had 106 attendees. 

I host a group in Waltham and Worcester with a high percentage of seasoned investors, which is meeting next Tuesday, you are most welcome to attend:  https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/320373-black-diamond-worcester-ma-6-21-from-frenzy-to-formality

I was looking through Detroit Land Bank properties and noticed this typical Detroit Style Home going for as little as $1,000 in some areas.Look at the other pic of what someone did in another city with a similar style house and imagine what a D-town home would look like all fixed up like that.Imagine a whole street of fixed up homes, it's called Gentrification.And with a few homes in sight of each other fixed up, if the trend catches on the prices on the delapitated old shacks starts going up, and so does the price of the fixed up home.Some of these homes (not all of them) for the right person, could be diamonds in the rough.If you consider yourself poor, you could learn fixups from youtube, and buy the materials as money allowed (vs looking for grants or trying to get loans), and if you are willing to put in the labor....and put up with the danger of the area...a gentrified home could be the outcome.