Many of the foreclosed properties in this area are being rented / lease-optioned / resold to young professionals and families.Not much multi-family here, though, to the OP's point.If you're talking about Joliet from the river / downtown on east, then yes - you're looking at different strategies in those areas.That said, one of the couples in my investing group based in Downers Grove has hooked up with a VA program for providing housing for homeless veterans near where they get treatment for physical and other disabilities or near public transit they can use to get around.

I typically invest in older buildings so when dealing with window treatment I always face this madness of multiple inferior installs.Blinds with the brackets barely hanging, that are basically impossible to secure because the non-standard way windows are framed. 

That's why carpeting gets the special treatment.

Keep in mind that this is a litigious society and whether you are flipping, leasing, wholetailing or simply assigning(even though this one does not get recorded) you are always better off using a company/llc as the seller/buyer/holder.Of course always consult with an attorney for your specific situation and tax treatment.

Check with WA regarding treatment of deposits, pet rent and requirements for insurance by the tenant. 

If not, they dont.What determines the treatment is defined in the international tax treaty between the US and that company if one exists.

Just awful treatment/delays/incompetence.  

I got the heat treatment when I had bed bugs.

Specifically, this guidance addresses how the discriminatory effects and disparate treatment methods of proof apply in Fair Housing Act cases in which a housing provider justifies an adverse housing action – such as a refusal to rent or renew a lease – based on an individual’s criminal history. 

Even if he is able to catch up completely and intends to do so, I think his treatment of the situation is fairly indicative of the lack of respect he is going to show not only you, but the property as well.It sounds like you have been doing all you could to give him the benefit of the doubt and really tried to help him out.