.✅ Hands-On Experience – If you plan to grow your real estate portfolio, managing tenants yourself can teach you valuable lessons about leases, maintenance, and local rental laws.✅ More Control – You’ll personally handle tenant screening, rent collection, and property upkeep, ensuring everything is done to your standards.✅ Stronger Tenant Relationships – Being involved directly allows you to build rapport with your tenants, which can lead to better communication and longer leases.Cons of Self-Managing❌ Time-Consuming – Dealing with maintenance requests, late-night emergencies, and tenant disputes can quickly become a second job.❌ Legal Risks – Chicago has strict landlord-tenant laws.

There are so many landlords that never update their lease or other documents.

Tenants should pay for that.My lease considered normal to be a few items hung using 1" nails or smaller.

What are some things I should include in the lease?"

Good luck with that lease sticking through a market shift.

Design a clause in your lease that complies with both and ensures you are protected.

I just didn't know where to put the service dog on the lease. 

Louis, Missouri-based property manager seeking investors and opportunities to property Tenant screening, lease negotiation, property maintenance, rent collection. 

Additionally, it's easy for a house on one lease to get absolutely trashed by the renter.

Since the yard is already rough, I would keep the shed and see how it works out.Consider adding something to the lease that permits you to remove it from the property if it becomes problematic.