My current 401(a) is held by Mass Mutual and they tell me that I can't roll it over to anything else.

And while Google+ certainly hasn't reached a critical mass, I have definitely seen activity pick up in the last few months.

You are overbuilding the cape cod house if you go with the western-mass specs. 

I visit Mass often due to family and friends and have a fairly good grip of most of the towns demographics.

Maybe a cult breaks into your attic every night and holds a black mass up there and as they sacrifice their third chicken they drop the Black Missal right over your head and wish you the worst...Or it maybe a rat pulling and chewing on the insulation of a loose cable up there and the thump is the sound when the rat pulls too hard and the tensioned cable comes free from its mouth and slaps into the ceiling drywall.

Get your numbers down pat -- spend time on craigslist seeing how much houses rent for, and then go to realtor.com and figure out if any single families in your area will cashflow (not to buy, because you don't have the money down right now; just as an exercise to build your deal-recognition muscle).When you find the MFR in your area, call the landlords and PMs and ask if you can take them for coffee.

I paid about $50 to compile about 100 email addresses and then I sent out a simple targeted mass email using gmail. 

As far as feasibly study usually it is if someone comes to us with a plot of land and we do some massing based on the zoning requirements and see how much office space or apartments you can fit.

I'm having luck in Mass. :)

I was generous in the counting, too and counted anyone that had real estate listed as a source, even if they had other sources.http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/IMHO, two things separate people who are wildly successful from the masses and even their only-10%-as-rich peers:1) Working really hard, and 2) luckBeing in the right place, making the right choices even without all the info, and being involved in the right businesses at the right time make a HUGE difference.