I have been hunting for my first multi family property financed though a 203k, and i thought i found a diamond in the rough!

Waltham Black Diamond is probably close.Two Great reads, I bought both J.

Its a big job grinding(diamond cutters), patching, polishing(finer diamond cutters), staining and sealing a concrete floor.I could see it in a converted warehouse setting with open floor plan, sandblasted heavy timbers, and painted industrial ductwork, etc.

My network has a limited number of people who work in commercial, and you may find some of them at the next meeting of Black Diamond, url in my signature

And if there are not enough responses, there will be lots of responses if your friend brought the sale to a Black Diamond meeting.

Western MA and Cape Cod I don't have as many contacts.Dave Fleckner is speaking on property management tomorrow 5/1 at http://newenglandreia.com/ Brian Lucier is speaking on 5/21 on landlording at Black Diamond: http://www.blackdiamondrealestateinvestors.com/next-meeting

Hi Wendy, I am in Diamond Bar.

There are also other groups (such as Black Diamond) easily within driving distance of RI.

Besides the Black Diamond meetings, Justin's BP meetup and the meetings Paul mentioned there is the NEREIA in Chelmsford (Last meeting would have been last Wed but was canceled for the snow storm), the Boston AREIA in Medford and @Mike Hurney has a couple meetings on the North Shore.

Alex, on the Black Diamond website (see my signature below) on the resources page is the attorney many of us (not all) work with.