Real Estate can be a low risk venue for getting yield on capital you already have but exactly the opposite for building wealth IF you don't know how to create true value.

It’s been very mixed as far as guests, fishing tournaments, youth sports tournaments, there’s a popular  wedding venue, DC weekend getaways, stopovers for travelers making a long drive, visiting family in the area and even some longer stay traveling employees. 

Sure, learn about REI and other venues too.

Rip up the wood floor from that room and patch the rest of the wooden floors with that.When done properly (and most likely all the wood was originally installed from the same batch and at same time), you will have magnificent wooden floors.Don't skimp on a refinisher--it will make all the difference!

I'd attribute 95% of any price changes to the Wharf, which brought a lot of restaurants and entertainment venues to an area that was downright sleepy, and was planned many years before the soccer stadium was announced.

ReviewsOf course it's wonderful if the property management company has excellent reviews by both tenants and investors on Google and Facebook and other venues, however keep in mind that in property management, there are going to be a number of upset tenants.

Wedding venue, paintball course, obstacle course (think Tough Mudder), campe site,  trailer park plots, etc.

After the "I'll evict you on Xmas because I’m such a harda**” post, the two 100+ reply threads on “college is good, college is for the sheeple”, and the “should I rent to a felon” thread that morphed into a debate about nature of the criminal justice system in the US, it seems that we have strayed from our roots as a REAL ESTATE forum where people talk and learn about REAL ESTATE related issues to a venue for real estate investors to espouse their world views on any number of given topics that are at best tangentially related to real estate.

The venue has changed for our next meeting!

We currently meet in Glendale Heights and are working on a contract with a venue in Oak Brook right now (a lot closer for you) but nothing set in stone yet.