@William JohnsonYour success is in your tenacity and ability to work outside your nature, learning the negation and NLP, mirroring your seller prospects, and CLOSING your first appointment with a "letter of intent to lease or purchase"It is important to say you live outside the USA, in French Quebec!

Because of my skeptic nature  it sounds to me like it's possible he is just trying to dump the building on you.

Beware of the poison pill, for example in the TAR lease in buried in it they say if you are not a texas realtor then this lease is null and void, so naturally you would won't to line out that provision. 

Not that one would naturally take those steps, but being removed from this kind of information is another downside of investing out of one's own area.  

currently looking into buying this property,it`s an apartment bldg ( fourplx)asking price 258,000 2014 numbers are as followsMaintenance - $2482 (includes 2 new fridges) Gas – $2300Hydro/Water – $4120Insurance – $2950Taxes – $4380Total Expenses - $ 16200Rental Income – $37,500Net Profit - $21250The building is heated by a natural gas boiler that is about 30 years old The windows were put in late 1980’s.The roof was done about 10 years ago.I`d like to know what is a good price to offer to owner?

You can find a fortune of interactive statistical information on the city, from income, property values, race, unemployment and a lot more-  and drill down to the level of zip code, neighbourhood or block by block info. 

Given that, I’d appreciate if you can let me know of any real estate investing meetings/gatherings in MetroWest/Worcester area where I can learn and interact with like-minded and experienced investors, real-estate agents, etc.

Due to the nature of the sales, product development, etc of REI a RE investor can have a very small (often times zero) need for additional employees even with a large dollar volume of business.

Hi everyone,I just joined the site and am impressed with the interactions and the information that is being shared.  

The tax rules are really complex and always changing in investment real-estate and an accountant who owns some himself will naturally know the rules better and more intuitively know if you might have missed a deduction or expense.