I was also involved in the teaching of instructors used in seminars ( from the outside as advisor) of Mark Haroldsen, Wade Cook and a couple others.

Nick,You are COOKING.....

The child that lived there wrote on a couple walls so the family room needed repaint, they never opened windows while showering ruining the finish on the cabinets and causing mold problems ruining the bathroom paint.This is an old updated 1940 home with no exhaust fans in the bath or kitchen so common since says  a window needs to be open when showering or cooking nut they were not.I documented everything with pictures and I have a letter from the flooring company stating what they saw.

Scott Cook

I have even spoken with a couple of people on here that I truly hope to do some business with in the extremely near future.My name is Scott Cook, my interests in real estate, are wide and varied.

TxEagle,There is a book called "How to Build a Real Estate Money Machine" by Wade Cook that covers basically the same concept as Lonnie, but with SFHs.

I got cold feet because the second floor tenant was a bit unkempt and didn't take good care of the property, and the first floor tenant was a heavy smoker.

Thus your challenge becomes figuring out how to do that while avoiding risk in a way that others have not perceived.Otherwise, I don't believe any laws exist for such a thing in cook that I've heard of.

Telling someone to pay the tenant for bad behavior is just another bad policy that results in more bad tenants and more problems for future Landlords. it's county-by-county. if it's cook county, 6 months to evict. 

Jason Cook here,Newbie in process of education.