There are a few meetings on the North Shore, @Justin Silverio hosts a quarterly meetup in Reading, the Boston Area REIA in Medford gets a lot of NH people and the Black Diamond meeting in Waltham is IMO the best local event right now and well worth the ride. 

As for hosting, GoDaddy or Hostgator will be all you need for under $20 a month.

I listened to a podcast shortly after I started that thread and the hosts were even debating what to do with a property in a down market, but one agreed with the"dollar cost averaging" idea.Anyways, it's been discussed that rents do not follow home values necessarily and this data backs that theory: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/rent/us/ .

I sometimes host SF meetups as well as SJ meetups with one next Friday.

The house CAN sell with the judgment liens on it but they will remain as a cloud on the title until they're paid and a Release of Judgment is filed with the Register of Deeds.

One other thought I forgot to mention for you specifically would be to make sure they are using cloud/web based property management software.  

I personally would only deal with licensed agent and close with title company for them to do title search and grant GW deed so that if there is clouded title or liens on properties the owner or bank will pay it.  

At a local meetup I host, we invited one of our local note buyers, Robert Young, to talk and educate us about the process.

Using a Mac-specific or Windows-specific app is more likely to lock your data down to a specific machine, whereas a cloud-based application can be accessed from anywhere, and probably has tie-ins with other services/products you could use due to the nature of their design/environment.

I was wondering if anyone has specific experience with different website templates, either the ones included on the different software programs or just wordpress or another CMS platform in general that they are happy with and would reccomend.I found this list  http://www.biggerpockets.com/rei/online-property-management-software-cloud/ very helpful for the different property management software options out there, some of them include webstie option, but Im not sure how great the functionality goes without trying all of them, so i thought I would reach out here first.