For your question on vinyl planking; during the last Home Depot Black Friday sale we purchased several thousand square feet of Allure in cherry color. 

She is very active here on BP and runs the Black Diamond networking event in Waltham and Worcester.We have worked with Ann in the past and she is excellent.

I was looking at every possible way to cure / treat cancer with natural stuff like alkaline food, black seeds, moringa leaves powder, baking soda & lemon, vitamin C doses... 

Instead of one black power wire you have two power wires.

To add insult to injury, the guy was black and only handed out his cards to black people.

Yes it's nebulous and black and white would feel better.  

What used to be so so gray areas are more black and white these days.  

Good afternoon @Michael OConnor, I can recommend a few couple of good networking/education groups where I think you can meet some folks who'd be happy to talk to you about that.For Massachusetts I'd recommend Black Diamond REI which has meetings in both Waltham and Worcester.For Rhode Island I'd recommend the RI Real Estate Investors Group which meets in Warwick, usually the 3rd Thursday of the month (there was a great meeting last night in fact).Both are groups that focus on education and networking and don't try to sell you stuff, which is much nicer (if you've ever been to one that tries to sell stuff, you'll understand :)I hope that helps, and of course if you have specific questions feel free to post them here on BP! 

It'll wipe out 2 or 3 other transactions I did that are in the black, not just for me but for 2 or 3 levels of management right above me.

Thats not happening no matter how bad they want the house unless they sold a kidney on the black market.