,While no investment is completely passive, proper real estate investing should be relatively boring.You asked about the process and major considerations.

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.

I need to do some research on what credit score I need to actually begin this process 

If you want to be vary hands on in the process find an agent that will guide you every step.

We went through this process twice with them.

In suburb cook county it is a little different. 

I believe people should have everything they need to cook with and nice kitchen items to use to cook. 

For instance - I am looking to see if anyone has experience with installing recessed lighting into a horse hair plaster ceiling and if anyone could offer advice on the process I should take when doing so? 

I did a "blind" assessment where I paid/reimbursed a close family friend to go in as a guest because there were a lot of details I wasn't privy to- and wanted to understand (the whole experience and process from the guest perspective from the initial inquiry, emails, etc.).They shared the email communications (some of which was glitchy or not quite as good as what I'd expect, or told me of delays in receiving responses).

I met him many times before awesome GUY but you can definitely tell the dude is the biggest slacker in the world (for example: if he knows that going the long way will benefit him greatly but will be hard in the process, but cutting through the backyard to avoid the long-distance of wearing will be better, he will most definitely take the short cut!