I do a procedure every year at tax preparation time. 

A lot of the creative financing is paired with bad real estate or a bad purchase price but the buyer is hyper focused on the creative financing terms and that's prioritized over the real estate. 

However, be prepared for limited inventory, higher competition, and possible compromises.

He claimed that they had properties ready to sell to me and the 10K was to recover their costs on work that had already been done to prepare the property for me. 

I enjoy finding creative ways to monetize normally overlooked spaces at my rental properties. 

I have been receiving wrong accommodations and prices because because their personal life background, they were incapable of screening me nonetheless I had good credit and clear profile, they were just discriminating on the basis of their scarce preparation to human situation and so by their presuppositions, that's probably also illegal.You cannot say landlords are to be forgiven because they are doing a needed service, instead it's for that very reason they have to admit their fault and change their way of behave: if a business owner is occupying the market with bad practices and wrong services it's likely they need to leave their place and let others settle in who can operate the business correctly, their even more such of problem if their services is basic, but it's quite absurd it's on me to explain you this.Landlords would have to better understand theirs are affairs on a public market, it's not private or personal matter, and as so they have to behave buy clearly stated rules or face immediate consequences.

You are preparing to give them $3,000/$6,000/or maybe $9,000 when they stop paying.

For near term investors, be prepared for sizable down payments to reach a cash flow neutral stance no matter how far out you look in the suburbs.

I don't know how to make this happen but the numbers work well, so I'm looking for creative advice/equity partners/private money/hard money  for how to make this happen, and then when my business sells I can pay back the loan and find financing at that point to continue the rehab.

. - You've got some pretty solid information above and concurrence that it shouldn't cost nearly as much as you thought, but on a separate note, I'd like to understand your situation a bit better.You are currently just looking for a Chicago property to purchase and asking the quit claim question in preparation for closing?