True, I am 100% with you on that.The point here is, when you analyze, you do based on what you know now (what is known as a fact today) and on what is highly likely to happened (again from today) and to accept the fact that things might change tommrow.Life happened every day, that’s why  we need to stay firm with our direction but flexible with our approach.having lived through the HORRORS of those years fully engrossed in the industry almost nationwide... it was regional on who did well and who had troubles.. no question well positioned landlords in Portland for instance no issue.. 

I would set up calls and then sit in and listen, every day, typically a few times a day for around 6 months.

@Jacob Dalton, I'm going to have to agree with Jonathan Klemm (sorry, couldn't tag you) & @Brie Schmidt -- you can definitely be a successful landlord in Chicago with the right team in place.  1000's of investors do it every day. 

It’s not every day that accusations of rent manipulation make headlines, and I wanted to understand how this impacts the millions of Americans struggling with housing costs.

@Kevin Sobilo another everyday scenario📌

I help investors like you everyday in the 11 markets that we have homes.

She denies and keeps texting me every day to "fix the furnace".

Success stories are happening every day,  I have clients breaking record rents on house hack more so than ever.  

They all know 100 realtors and get dumb calls from them every day.

It certainly helps that you've done it, but I would maybe do one that is still in CA, but far so you can't go every day and see how that is and then inch out.On finding an agent, definitely not the way to go in terms of calling brokerages and asking for their top producing agent.