However after my showing I think its a much bigger project than I anticipated and likely wouldn't qualify for traditional financing, so wanted to ask the community about how larger developers are turning these big old houses into multiple condos all over Boston.

I can see "a good guy" charging you $5,000 to $6,000 total for this project. 

Additional BackgroundContractor says there is a lot of "unknowns" in the project.

They're only going to lend you 80% of the project so you'll have to come up with this extra on your own. 

@Twana Rasoul There's a San Diego meetup this weekend, organized by active BPers @Parker Cox and @Kevin Fox - part of a series held at different REI projects around the county.  

That looks like a nice project!

@Antoine Martel Just trying to manage contractors and get a project done in a specific time is intimidating. 

I will say that I have seen such a massive spike in the prices of homes over that way that it in such a short period of time rents have not been able to keep pace to provide great returns.The vast majority of all of the properties that I have been working on lately have been over in the NE along the 35 corridors.

What kind of project are you looking to do?

We have three children so we would have to have a decent flip home to live in while we get a few projects going.