As I wade through the mass amount of information for my market, I try to look at it as, "What can I know from mulitple sources of information and my own diligent research that a less educated/informed homebuyer or renter wouldn't take the time to understand.

@Mike Hurney .My agents in mass are alwAys on point.

Other than being a wholesaler and using a roth for earnest money, it doesn't look like I can use the Roth as it isn't of "critcal mass" to do an entire deal.

- rent it out, with damage, vacancy, property manager's negligence and incompetence, possible evictions, etc)- lease to own in MASS- wrap around mortgage in MASS- sub2 in MASS- short sale if they qualify in MASS (kills your credit)Your objective is to get a win win with the seller.Best wishes this Christmas,PS And....Realtors are friggin LAZY during Dec and Jan, go knock on some doors with that report!

But since it is my idea, I would be happy to begin compiling inputs and ideas from the masses and put forth the effort to see where we could take this...

The classic Internet marketing technique is to send out a mass, once a month email with some (presumably) useful tidbits to keep your name top of mind so that when they are ready to, in our case, sell their house, they call you.  

Mass is an interesting state for REI, but there are a lot of people here having success.

any  active wholesalers/cash buyers in the ct/mass area have tips on best ways to find motivated sellers and what worked best for them 

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Just saying hello to the forum. I just passed my real estate license test 2 weeks ago. My first passion is fitness, I'm a NSCA-CPT., USAW Performance Coach, nationally recognized personal trainer, post reha...

Hi, I'm a newbie from central Massachusetts hoping to have my first deal to fix up this winter.
I've been practicing at analyzing deals and I'm wondering if the 2% rule (where the possible rent should equal about 2% ...