if your a beginner highly unlikely your going to get Zero money down deals.. there will be some closing cost some cost involved.. you should work on some kish up front then go shopping.. nothing spells failure quicker than under funded.

And the heck with the one or two inquiries as the benefit of doing this a few months in advance can be extremely beneficial for multiple reasons! 

I am an investor in the city of Chicago and have house hacked multiple times.   

What if you have multiple bank accounts? 

Have you thought about partnering up in joint ventures or getting involved in syndication?

If your area requires multiple ways of sending the letter, you do it all.I do not know if you'll need to go to court.

Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

Which means I could have money to purchase multiple properties.If I keep it, I can rent it out for $1,600 a month.

as i keep reading through the bigger pockets book on rental investing, i keep running across these sections that say "this isn't expensive and shouldn't cost more than $1000". but I've read things like this multiple times throughout this book.

Having to dig up the parking lot and redo the line to the street and repave can be many tens of thousands of dollars depending on the length of the run involved and how deep the lines are.Make sure you have the full financial numbers from the seller and they verify before spending thousands on inspections to only find out sellers numbers are wrong and they will not adjust the price etc.Hopefully in your purchase and sale contract you had language such as due diligence period does not start until ALL of the items listed are received by the buyer.