It's not the same - you have to deal with transportation, storage, through put cost, counterparty risk, the need to find an end buyer in the right location with the demand at the right time, collections and billing on giant sums of money, etc. 

Maybe there's some semantic misunderstanding on one or both sides leading to all this confusion.I supplement my income with my public speaking.

Signing a mortgage doesn't put my name out there publicly right?

Why do you believe cheap housing is in the best interest of the public?

The list is a combination of private and public data. 

@Shuvrajit Mukherjee - You have to be able to scrape that data from some where pretty easy...a lot of that property specific info is public record.There is a website called chicago cityscape...I am decent friends with the founder....it is sourcing a ton of data that might help. 

It's public. 

I was already tired of using public transport, plus when the weather was bad the way to work took up even more time.

Thanks I honestly hate public speaking Which is weird considering I was in front of classroom for almost 20 years If your ever in po m-f shoot a call or text  I’ll try and make time to meet for a coffee

I don't believe that will change as long as the school system and public safety levels remain some of the worst in the state.