Name's Leo, 34, Line Cook from Statesville NC.

Cook County has raised your property taxes on average 11.3% since 2001, but values are about the same as they were in 2001.

@Wesley Cook  Glad to see you are getting into real estate.  

Hi @Tony Cook,We started with an agent and looking at Foreclosures.

Oh thank you @Arthur Cook!  

Even if they don't they still like the fact that it's nothing home cooked.

Often if you want to separate the utilities the units will need to be legal with full cooking facilities and fire rated walls in between.

You'll still have your ordinary maintenance calls for clogged toilets, lack of hot water, and maybe even some unusual ones like a crock pot that didn't properly heat and cook their casserole.Short-term makes more money but takes more time, period.

Well....later on (after the basement was finished) when unit two was rented, I went over there to spend some time in unit 1 and cook out and stuff....when I opened the door it was like NIAGARA FALLS coming down in the unit 1 dining room.  

I have found that most of the problems occur when all have an equal "vote", democracy is great, HOWEVER, too many cooks spoil the soup!