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Rich Rosa, co-founder of exclusive buyer agent real estate firm Buyers Brokers Only, publishes Real Boston with the help of colleagues and friends. He is a lawyer, real estate broker, and writer.

Rich earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1995 from New England Law I Boston, and graduated from Northeastern University’s School of Journalism in 1991. He has been a real estate broker since 2005.

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