If a home at 40th and Byrum has good numbers, I would investigate further.

I live on the north side of Chicago with my wife and son.I've been diving into strategies around innovative short-term rental investing (airbnb, VRBO) and trying to investigate whether a lease-ro-STR model can work in Chicago. 

The utilities are turned off at the moment, so how does one investigate the state of electrical, plumbing, sewer etc?  

No idea what they will say about your scenario if they decide to investigate. 

A reverse exchange would be worth investigating. 

Maybe you all can talk some sense into me.Perhaps there are better deals out there and I should be out looking for them, but we're slightly in between financing and I just think it's super wasteful to not get these window ACs back to good working order.Sounds like only the bigger 10000 btu/hr unit is really even worth the time to investigate further at this point...Does anyone else's day to day look like this at all?

I considered investigating acquiring credit cards or other lines of credit to facilitate this. 

I find it interesting that I've not found any reports on the web of investigations, complaints of fraud from actual NRIA.

Hi All,Did some more investigating and researching in South Jersey and @Rick C. and @James Masotti do bring up some good points about the PATCO stops. 

If it looks questionable, a call to the listing agent to investigate is in order.