Lots of great info here to get started and there are good people in your neck of the woods to help show you the ropes.

My first thought was to put garlic around my neck to keep them money sucking gurus away.

We have found some homes in pre-foreclosure in our neck of the woods that are very nice (on the outside) and want to know what our next steps should be?

Jay is right in saying that most triple-deckers here in Worcester are in rough shape, but a handful look good to cash flow.The multifamily market is plummeting ten-fold compared to sfh around these neck of the woods.

The scary looking guys with neck tats you see working on the large upright structures of steel at a petrochemical refinery. 

I'm definitely not in the market for something in our neck of the woods, thinking something a bit smaller and cheaper to start, but I know vacancy is a huge concern.

There is no advantage to holding a money pit that will only be a albatross around your financial neck.

It's hard to unlearn muscle memory built up over many years of use, and I can see you've been here some years.

Believe it or not we are having trouble finding folks in our neck of the woods so we will check out Andrew and see if he happens to venture out that way.  

I didn't want to create another LLC (pain in the neck, time, expense, having to file another federal income tax return), so I filed a Certificate of Assumed Name with NY state.