With that being said I've been looking at areas in western mass like Holyoke & Springfield where multifamily prices are more affordable for me to start small.

People don't care about the person after them, so make sure you are fully aware that the work they say they did could, in fact, have been done, but in a poor/ineffective fashion or not at all. 

Hi, I fashion a Canadian winter!

All rich international student around with their Bentley, Ferrari....I still remember one of the most fancy mall Fashion Island, one of the biggest mall in USA, SouthCoast Plaza, and one of the best medical school UCI, there's Johnwayne airport, And many many medical manufacturing surround there, Christmas boat parade,......

It is my understanding after reading the AG letter, they would not legally be permitted to be involved in any way, shape, form or fashion and especially with a "client".

The 2-4 unit resi loans we can still make it work, but it's hard to deploy real capital in that fashion.

Sorry, if you were in Western PA I could offer more help. 

I'd be interested in looking out there, I  have friends who bought primary residences in Western Ma as they could buy cheap.

I'm interested in buying and holding SFRs and/or multifamily properties in Western Washington. 

Think there is a tour of a condo conversion in East Boston tomorrow for example.Other groups off the top of my head...Boston Area REIA in MedfordNEREIA in ChelmsfordThe Boston REIA in DedhamThe Boston Investors Meetup - quarterly with next one in Julymassrealestate(dot)net with meetings in Peabody and Danvers (I think)The NH real estate mastermind in Nashua, NHThe Eastern Mass REIA in RocklandAnd if you want to put some miles on the car:NHREIA in Manchester, NHSouth Shore REIA by the CapeThe House Flipping School Meetup in PlymouthThe Western Mass REIA in West SpringfieldAnd there are probably lots of other ones I am missing as well.