I've roamed around the site and the forums a couple weeks now, even commented here and there, but have not formally introduced myself.

I think I am doing that now, just not formally. 

Fun :)Dealt with it with rentals in Matteson and Cal City recently and it's such a slowdown to our business that we just pulled right out of Chicago for rentals & only do them over the border on the Indiana side. 

A formal eviction is necessary 

on a mobile home near the Johnston county border that you could smell from 200 feet away.

I am too big and too much at stake to fool with something that is border line..

As many of us Canadian BP'ers can attest to, things are different north of the border.

My partner and I are just starting out with getting into real estate, and we feel that we should take some steps to formalize our partnership first before we really dive in and get ahead of ourselves.

But now that I see some of you guys are doing this, I will consider this type of setup.Many more important tips I got here, but I need to review more formally and get back to you all!

Such a partnership sounds worthy of launching a formal contract to define non-performance and to make their promised reimbursement policy enforceable.