1) Rich Dad Poor Dad (almost every investor started with this one)2) The Book on Managing Rental Properties by Brandon Turner (This book was pivotal after my initial purchase, it has made and saved me more money than any other book)3) Set For Life by Scott Trench (provides you with a detailed description of how to create your "financial runway", I have tried to model my investing career off of this book.)4) BRRRR by David Greene (provides detailed description of how to use the 2nd best strategy in Real Estate (house hacking is #1))5) Long Distance Real Estate Investing by David Greene (Provides detail description of how to invest in Real Estate if you live in an expensive Market6) The 10x Rule by Grant Cardone (mindset/motivational)7) The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs by Jay Scott (provides detailed description on handling what I find the most difficult aspect of REI)That is my rank order for the most influential books that I have read.  

I do not know Illinios geographically and I have only heard of Chicago.  

The south side of Chicago is a very large geographically (South side is as large as the north and west sides combined) so it is unlikely that one property management company will cover the whole south side.  

I did get a tip from a few investors to make sure you write in the description “by appointment only” or “no trespassing” etc. to try to prevent something like this happening in the future.Has anyone had anything like this happen before?

However, if you own a MF property and live in part then you can take advantage of both sections of the code to create some tax free and some tax deferred gain.It's a pretty powerful way to use deferred tax to enhance building your portfolio and move the property geographically and change type without having to  pay tax.

I can tell by the description of the meeting whether it's going to be a salesfest/product push or not.

You’ve learned a lot since you started the journey of investing in your first passive real estate deal: you’ve weighed all the differences between asset classes, zeroed in on your ideal geographic market, and put on your investigator’s hat to get comfortable with a few operators.

Risk comes in many forms, geographic risk, asset risk, construction risk, etc...

Hence a slight inventory increase and some geographic luck is producing a lot of properties there.I am not a the sky is falling person thinking the bubble is about to pop, but a healthy correction is likely in my opinion in the next year.

@David D'ErricoThe advertisements you see on the BP site are placed by Google and the ads you see will differ from those I see given our geographic separation among other factors.It does not automatically follow form the appearance of such advertisements that they are site sponsors (other than indirectly though the services of Google), nor that the BP team has vetted their presence.