You have the security of doing it yourself if you need to and the knowledge you will gain will pay off immensely.

Breaking the One Percent Rule isn’t uncommon in either of these areas and can be applied as a baseline in situations where immense appreciation isn’t expected in B-C class neighborhoods.

Being an agent has helped me immensely in learning about all things real estate.

In terms of enforcement if several potential tenants apply some being Hispanic, African American, Asian or Transgender/Gay and they all have identical perfect credit or near-perfect credit because they are all working for the fair housing board and not real tenants and the landlord picks the white applicant who was not first to apply that would show clear discrimination under this law and the landlord would face sanctions.

If my phone would allow me to tag people on here that would help immensely, but I think John Warren would be a really solid resource for you to check out here in the Chicago land area for all things financial.

AlexanderI am not an inspector but trained as one at one point You can bounce onto to the internachi site https://www.nachi.org/ the site has an immense base of industry knowledge. 

Add, emergency contacts, why leaving, how long will you stay etc.I also prefer erents tenant screen report...We left once,, then went back after immense pain being away.

Some instances may even require you to go lower than 66% .As pertaining building your buyer's list, there is nothing wrong with building those early on however "MVP buyers" as I like to refer to them as, due to the number of deals they do a year and closing speed, value their time immensely .

Mostly white or mostly African American?

I also have a property that has appreciated immensely and if I were to sell it without doing a 1031 exchange, taxes and depreciation recapture would be immense.