I've literally watched it for years, and while the foreclosures seem overpriced at the sheriff's sales, all those people buying preforclosures swear that there's deals to be found by going through all that. 

If they are literally identical fourplexes, you'd just cut your negotiated purchase price in half and hand the lender two signed contracts, one for each.

I have seen single guys literally walk in at 8 am with a box of black garbage bags and hand me the keys to a vacant apartment at noon.

(heck if interested watch my video blog journey, how i take action and literally spill all the beans on what is going through my brain in process of still working at the full time job and documenting all sorts of weird and non weird actions... note to some they may seem weird... but to others.. it may act as a powerful motivation, of seeing someone actually documenting everything in the process of his journey towards financial freedom... )Once again...

I see a lot of newer agents if they don't have a warm market or sphere to tap into.. they will get on a big producers team.. this can jump start you.out our way agencies have lead creation systems and will literally hand you web leads for listings or sales.My wife had taken a few year hiatus and to kind of jump start ( her normal business is referrals) but she wanted to work some leads and get going and it worked very well she made many sales and got a few listing which in this market is simply money in the bank. find your niche.. and remember 95% of agents all try the same thing.. you may want to specialize.. and commerical agents though dog tough to start if you make it.. its a really good business once your established.

I owned that rental and literally used the cash flow to build up a reserve account.

Solar adds value out here but not that much and nowhere near $100,000 Yeah if it is a neighborhood of $500k houses...there is literally nothing they could do to the property to raise the value $100k. 

HOWEVER, he literally NEVER told us they found a new tenant. 

I'm going to talk to some of the big investors in this area and see if they'd be willing to show me some numbers they have on their properties so he can literally see a breakdown of the area I'm trying to buy and see that it performs well enough for it to be viable.

@Sezuo Daudu like most investors on (and off) this website, and especially in Chicago...anything outside of “A” And “B to B Minus” areas just literally don’t exist to them.With $150k in funds you can almost two buildings if you play your cards right.