Sottile Barile.Ask for tony Barile - that is who I have used on numerous loans in Indiana. 

Huge red flag. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/topics/201887-chicago-investment-club-leaders---feedback-needed#-numerous other "companies" these guys have been running in the same business.

You have to look at risk/reward ratio when buying properties for investment.

So if he literally just followed the law, he'd be rewarded for it. 

There needs to be a valid reason for us to be together.If you just want to see someones face there are numerous ways to do that.

Also, for C- areas you should be getting 1.5%+. 1% does not build in enough reward for the risk and hassles you'll encounter with tenants and property maintenance (they're mainly all older homes with varying degrees of deferred maintenance).

All said, there can be numerous reasons a property is listed for an extended amount of time that have nothing to do with the physical condition of the improvements.

I really believe that while an agent should be very knowledgeable about the real estate market....you should also have a great connection with that person because its going to be a fun/scary/emotional/weird/crazy/hectic time and you want to be able to ride that roller coaster with someone you generally like and can stand putting up with numerous showings and phone calls and texts.

I live in Cali, but after running the numbers on numerous houses here it has become obvious that this area is not necessarily ideal at the moment, never mind the other legal issues.

It sounds like a classic risk/reward issue, not like an "open-shut" case as depicted from all my research I've been doing so far.I'm trying to realize if I'm missing something here, will appreciate your inputs.Please forgive me if this question seems trivial, I tried looking up the answer prior to this post but most of the cases I've seen spoke about different cases (low initial liquid assets / high cash-flow properties + snowballing / etc)Thanks