Hey Daniel, HELOCs for investment properties are hard to come by, yes they are lenders for this but slim pickings. 

There are also good neighborhoods nearby to pick up some investment properties, although 1% rule is going to be tough to hit and the $350-450k price range is going to be slim pickings and highly competitive (due to the affordability issue here the entry-level price range is far and away the highest demand market segment).

The drive towards newer homes for investors has been that there is a lot of building going on and pricing is still very competitive with new homes making the difference between old and new pretty slim. 

Him saying “I didn’t give an easement” is almost certainly irrelevant, the city should have the recordered the work, but even if they didn’t , his ability to litigate this is slim.

If you can negotiate a really good price on the lot you may be able to assign the lot contract to a builder but chances are slim you will be able to do anything with these deals.

And you are absolutely right Michaela - he said that the chance of me getting rezoning to multifamily is slim to none.

While there's a chance that sharing this could result in somebody in my local market going head to head with one of my buyers on an escalation, I think the chances of that are slim compared to the benefit of more BP folks being better prepared to get deals.

The chances of this being a deal and going well are slim to none.

If your profit margin is so slim that ONE MONTH on the market puts you in the red, then you really don’t have any profit margin.  

Chicago IS expensive and deal flow is slim.