Just a friendly recommendation: I would remove the wicker chairs in the living room.

That said, you do have a leg up as someone mentioned, with the lower interest rate compared to current rates.

It's very lucrative and also requires some leg work to make the relationships.

One of the main reasons Chicago has a leg up is the number of jobs opportunities.

Working in construction can give you a leg up here- you can probably eyeball  a fixer upper and get some numbers going mentally to calculate the scale of project you are taking on. 3.

If you want access to the MLS and want to do all of the leg work, then you should become an agent. 

But you'll have to do some leg work for the rent.

We were helping a friend renovate a house which had been home to a heavy smoker: one room was so bad - owner had smoked in the same chair for 30 years - that we had to replace the sheet rock on the walls and ceiling.There have been some studies in the past few years showing that the chemicals from cigarette smoke, even when encapsulated with paint, eventually come to the surface exposing future residents, in particular young children.  

We are now the USA leg of the international organization.

A mold specialist will cost you and arm and a leg and likely recommend unnecessary repairs.