As a follow-up, I got a call and they seem oblivious to my being annoyed by their attempt to profit from my asset, and have said they will take down the ad. 

I live 30 minutes outside Chicago and I'm attempting to start a second career as a real estate investor and agent.I've been a full-time career Firefighter/Paramedic for 13 years and I want to find another career to transition into so I can leave the fire service in 8-10 years.  

We are attempting to making our first purchase of a rental out of state where are kids are attending college.  

One of those potential buyers may have stopped negotiations with the seller hoping that no else, in this case you made an offer, once you made the offer, likely they went back to the prior offer attempting to gin it up using your offer as bait, so to speak. 

This is our first attempt with laundry.

The home is a first attempt at renting (yay!)

Hire a lawyer who's advice you think you will trust, if you after hearing the lawyers advice you don't trust the lawyers advice, fire the lawyer and attempt to hire a lawyer whose advice you will trust. 

This must have been a marketing attempt to get good publicity.

——————I’ve purchased hundreds of multifamily doors and have interviewed dozens of other apartment investors on my podcast and will attempt to share some of what I’ve learned over the past 10 years:1) Loopnet has some great opportunities hidden within that junk. 2) you need to underwrite about a hundred opportunities to find one that truly works anyway so don’t be afraid of Loopnet3) commercial brokers are a great way to start but if you’re new... they are only going to give you garbage... no better than Loopnet 4) is recommend if you went the route of brokers that you’d want to have 3 brokers per sub market and you’d want to contact each of them often.5) nothing is “gigantic out of range” everything is obtainable via strategic partnerships6) quirky is often a good thing.7) simple uniform properties will be the most difficult to find in this current market, you may want to consider the ones that take creativity and time... again this can be more easily done via strategic partnerships8) being too busy isn’t necessarily an issue if you utilize a strategic partnership that can create a win win.Hope this helps?

When a tenant from hell attempts to clean a toilet they often forget about the back of the toilet.........GROSS!