Chris Erwin I'd connect with Jarrod Cook and J Benoit They can help you out!

They also have terrible reviews on the internet and a past waitress told us they are watering down the wine, taking food off plates coming back and replating and the gal is the chef with no experience cooking.

You dont bring your own steak to a restaurant and ask them to cook it so you save money .

You can be picker with a roommate than a regular tenant and you can pick roommates who don't know how to boil water (non-cooks who'll stay out of the kitchen). 

Here's a tally from the Cook/Kane county areas, for example.

It's also productive fun- I also like hobbies where I make things (knitting, sewing, cooking, fixing up things around the house, etc), but the sense of accomplishment at the end of spending 4 weeks solid knitting a scarf is not nearly as... well, fun... as spending that four weeks putting together a deal.And once you stop needing the money to live on, it starts going to interesting projects and things you care about- I try to donate money to science research I find interesting, but tends to get ignored by the big grant institutions- I could happily, happily, spend $100 million on that and never get bored.

Russell,I previously worked in the Cook County Assessor's office for 20 years and now work for a tax firm that specializes in reduction of real estate taxes.

I'm in cook county (chicago).  

Now you're starting to cook with FIRE!!!!!!  

@Christopher Cook Thank you, it is always nice to have support and guidance when it matters most.