Unfortunately, my experience has also been they Sec 8 tenants have generally been rougher on property. 

My goal is to help people invest in properties and grow my business, but as a beginner, I'd love some advice on getting my foot in the door. 

In particular, I’m a huge fan of the South Side of Chicago or Northwest Indiana for cash-flowing properties.

New to Real Estate and trying to find the best way to create leads and reach people about investment properties.

Hello,I would like to ask for advice regarding an insurance company willing to insure for liability only, as I am self insuring the property itself: I don’t have landlord insurance. 

@Mayer M.Excel will be the best way to track your hours.You should have something where it is set up in the following wayColumn 1 = DateColumn 2 = Activity DoneColumn 3 = property #Column 4 = amount of hours spentGood luck!

Looking to possibly start investing with some whole sale properties and land.

Reading Vanessa Peters book “the busy professionals guide to passive real estate investing” and in it she has a chart showing initial investment of 100k, 8% preferred return, 20% cash on cash return including sale of property, and 5 year hold.Each year she shows $8k return (years 1-4) then a $168k return in year 5 including the return of equity.

Not sure if your property is in that area as you are a bit West.

When you remodel/rehab a property look at the surrounding market and see what is "expected" for properties of that type that have been remodeled. 3.