I was more thinking an influx of fresh restaurants, some more music and bar venues, some art & pedestrian stuff..

I'm sure a lot of the info would be transferable (not all of course) and would also offer a different perspective.

The second used to be Worcester Property Owners and is now  https://masslandlords.net/ You should probably attend both and get as much MA landlording perspective as possible. 

For many borrowers a foreclosure won't be that big of a deal, so there is no need, from their perspective, to jump through a bunch of hoops to short sale their property.  

Think about this from the guru's perspective.... he gets flown to NYC for free and paid to go look at a house.

My husband and I did this fresh out of college.

I first went to See Asai when I was 30, and it changed my perspective on life.

It depends on what perspective you look at it from in CA theres an 800 per year CA franchise tax fee per entity so it would only be feasible if the investment made enough to justify the fee or if the risk was so great that the 800 was justifiable because of the protection needed.Perhaps a better question is what you hope to achieve by creating a LLC?

I am still fresh off of learning and just getting my feet wet in real estate knowledge period, so I don't have the resources yet to know exactly what to do.

If you can do math, I can teach you numbers in 3 hours.Now - once you have the numbers, what is the perspective?