When municipalities use tactics to extract money from you that you have abandoned any hope of receiving corresponding benefits, you need to change your own tactics to protect your own interests.

Can you apply your discrimination to extract what's salient, correct and well-founded from the often-confusing stream of information?

I payed $50 a month to get online access to the local clerk of court's website and extracted my own information.

Sell as a "sweat equity/fixer" type property or do it up and extract every penny?

I have had one baby for almost 10 years, and only this year did I have a non-routine vet bill (excision of 2 cysts, removal of 1 lipoma, several tooth extractions, laser treatment for arthritis).

Building a profitable house depends (aside from the local market) largely on your ability to extract maximum value out of what you've built.

Being the numbers guy I am - I asked her to give all sales in that zipcode past 1 yr . she said she couldnt pull all of them at once - I saw a video on youtube , sat with her and showed her how to extract .Very few properties went above asking price - like 5K above , this is a hot area .

I know some pretty talented land investors who also have the ability to deploy their own farming operations to get value out of tillable acres, and as a newly minted real estate agent in IL, I'm hoping to invest along with them on the next couple of pieces.We also have a system to optimize and better position land to extract maximum value. 

Growing businesses will have an array of options to extract the equity from the real estate. 

REIT wants to buy them but they were getting 2.5 times regular REVPAR because people waiting for homes to be rebuilt had to have a place to stay so they want to extract extra NOI and then sell off to REIT once things calm down.Developers if local contractors are all backed up months sometimes they will bring in crews from other states that are not busy at all and put them up for lodging and food to work on their projects.If the city or county can't get behind a developer project that pencils along with the public then the site will sit there and do nothing.