Cook county?

John Mainwaring You're really narrowing your "idea tenant" population to either chefs or short-order cooks.

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.

Jason Cook here,Newbie in process of education.

Or do I have to look more towards cook county.

I’m reminded of what my main teacher Bill Cook told me, “Some of the best deals are the ones you never do.”There’s a second part to this story.

We could not find any outstanding fines that had been levied by Cook county related to this, but are concerned that in the future we'll get dinged for it.

His material online is where I got my pet and smoker fee ideas, and I had already planned to collect rent weekly, but read a lot of good stuff on his site about it, too. 

Otherwise you are stuck paying the majority of the gas - the cooking gas only runs $30/month per apt max.As for water, again, you need to have segregated piping to each unit.