My take: once you inherit a smoker, in a single-family unit, try to keep them as long as you reasonably can.

If the landlord is paying heat, cooking gas and electric, the voucher will be higher.

Also I have sold all my other Cook County properties for several reasons: Cook County taxes, eviction courts.

Purchase price: $172,000 Cash invested: $37,000 Currently rehabbing this old smokers house.

Purchase price: $172,000 Cash invested: $45,000Currently rehabbing this old smokers house.

I don't have my first property yet but am actively looking in cook and lake county.

This presents a situation where were looking for a niche tenant - someone who can afford to buy a home but has life circumstances leading them to rent and who also does only minimum cooking or eats out a lot.

Paint will not adhere to any surface if it has contaminants like cigarette tar, vaping residue, grease from cooking, etc.

We don't rent to smokers of anything, period.

I manage all of my buildings in Berwyn and Cicero which is in Cook County, IL.