From experience, the Rental Tribunal in place made for evicting a 6-month exercise, (very much in favor of the tennant).

The person who you gave the opinion to can make you confront the real estate tribunal.

I've tried looking up probates through the Union Tribune (paper and online), as well as the city probate website.

The best sources I use are the SD Union Tribune (as mentioned by Dan below) and SDAR.

Landlords in Quebec have to disclose the previous rent and you can be forced to give it to them.It is very difficult to raise rents year over year in Québec, there is a formula provided by the housing tribunal that you have to use in order to justify your rent increase.

Or grab a newspaper (The Argus, Tribune, or Mercury News) and look in the classifieds under legal notices. 

there was a huge front page article in Minneapolis Star-tribune about a landlord that raised the rent on his apartments in one building $125.00 a month, and how Minneapolis inner city is running out of affordable housing in the lower income are spots.

Thats coming from the Chicago Tribune references so it is what it is.That being said, the one thing I'm not seeing anyone mention here are the other risks investing in Chicago - both from a city, county and state level.1) The landlord laws in Chicago/Cook County are some of the absolute worst in the country.

I'm 28 years old, I'm a restaurant manager/everything else for one mine and my families restaurant, just had my first kid (4moths), married (6years), and i just bought my first home 7days ago.I purchased my first property a duplex, in Redlands CA. 940 Tribune st CAIt is a completely new build Home1751sqft,(Unit #1) 2 bed 2 bath 2 car garage(Unit #2) 2 bed 2 bath 1 car garage.it is located in a decent neighborhood, but a few blocks in the wrong direction is not ideal.

There was an article in the Chicago Tribune last Sunday on how several families moved out of their homes expecting the bank to foreclose after getting the pre-foreclosure letter.