I'm a little late with my introduction but I just recently moved to Franklin, MA from Dorchester(Boston), MA and now that most of the boxes are unpacked I decided it was way past due.How I got here: I purchased a two family home in the Pope Hills section of Dorchester in 2011.

Then I'm finally going to follow my own advice and buy a MFH here in the Boston area.

Here in Boston, showings are almost always done with tenants in place.

The logical explanation is that the grocery store invested money, time, and expertise into the transportation, display, and sale of the apples, and therefore deserves the extra money...man this stresses me out...The next time this came up was with a different speaker.

The Unofficial BiggerPockets Boston Meetup is here.Location: Sea Dog Brew Pub, 230 Mishawum Road, Woburn, MADate: Wednesday, September 11, 2013Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PMFormat: The first event will be mostly networking, so bring your business cards.

When done correctly this can easily equal or exceed the $ value of buying something used and rehabbing it, without any of the time, effort, complexity and $ uncertainty (hidden defects) of that process.It might be useful to think of it like buying fleet vehicles for a transportation business.

Hi Vince, Thanks for the welcome and good luck wishes.I'm based in Boston but of course would have no qualms heading out to Western Mass for a good deal!

(Sometimes communities will require a certain amount of yard per SF of House footprint.)You could check on Craig's List to see what the difference in rental rates are Parking/no parking.By the way, how close are you to public transportation?

This really depends on the type of property (houses different from condos different from apartments, C neighborhoods different from A), the price point ($40k house different from $400k house), and local market type (downtown Boston different from rural Arizona).I could share what I use, but it'd be a disservice if what you're targeting is way different than what I am.

Some of the problems I can think of is where do you store the printer after it is done printing the home and how do you transport it?