@Nathan Adams you could also paint each “unit” a different color sort of like the link the other poster supplied.

Based on your explanation above, she may want a full-price offer even though the home is trashed inside.As @Cassi Justiz said (sort of), you should make an offer and step away."

Does anyone have experience with this that did not use cash for a purchase like this but still used some sort of conventional financing?

They have all sorts of reasons why they keep or sell assets like this which may or may not make sense to the individual investor looking at one particular asset.

It's come time for me to sort out my insurance and I thought I could set it up on monthly payments and this might be a good way to help me start building a credit rating, but it seems that in general, insurance companies won't report to credit agencies unless it's negative. 

If anyone else has done this, what sort of 'specialty' items do you have in your specific lease? 

Any advice from the more seasoned members would be greatly appreciated, and I would definitely be interested in networking with some of the local investors, especially those who have also successfully done a house-hack of some sort in the north Chicagoland area.

Any advice from the more seasoned members would be greatly appreciated, and I would definitely be interested in networking with some of the local investors, especially those who have also successfully done a house-hack of some sort in the north Chicagoland area.

I think I'd call animal control and let them sort it out.

Here are sort of where my properties are (I don't have all of them in here, just most that are in the loop or near it.