My son began the process of Multifamilies a few years back based on teaching of @Michael Blank.

In our opinion it is not worth the price to evict that many tenants as SCI will lose a lot of money in the process.

If you've done it before, how long did the rezoning process take?

Some landlords have not been paid and some tenants are unable to make up for the rent owed by IHA and have either been evicted or are in the process of.

The process and management will take you 1-5 youtube videos to learn about. 

What screening process do you use? 

They just need to include that language as part of the process.

There are more serious red flags that come up during the screening process. 

So developers are building multifamily on these parking areas.Since these areas aren't located on top of residential areas, the zoning approval process has a lot less friction and resistance from NIMBYs.Here's an example in Rochester where an old Sears was turned into apartments for seniors.https://www.passero.com/projects/skyview-park-senior-housing...For multifamily developers, this could be an opportunity for building and partner with the mall owners.

I am admittedly a newb in the process of getting all of this set up for my first rental (so correct me if I'm wrong) as well but I have some IL-specific perspective to offer: From what I have read, as of 1 Jan 2024 in IL, landlords cannot exclusively accept EFT payment of rents (includes Venmo, Zelle, etc.) for leases starting on or after that date.