I am located in Chicago, where the Cook Country real estate taxes are unbelievably high.

Quick answer to your "Trapped Equity" question: Call Joe Massey, Castle and Cooke Mortgage.

For example a dated kitchen with walls yellow from cigarette smoke and a 60 year old oven is fine, a kitchen that you can't cook food in is not fine -- even if it is otherwise modern, new, and clean. 

In another note, he said that Jerry Cohen and his nephew Scott Cohen were convicted of a major rental fraud scheme in Philadelphia in 1999.If you look at the Cook County Recorder of Deeds website, EquityBuild is the Grantor/Grantee on 190/160 properties respectively in the Chicagoland area.

The well water was reserved for drinking and cooking. 

Otherwise it’s kind of a “too many cooks in the kitchen” situation and can be a cluster to deal with.In the case of the other partners, I say more disclosure is better than less.

His landlord charges back the utilities, and his complaint deals mainly with cooking gas.

I work 12-hour shifts 5 days a week and also am busy with other things for, so I'm typically out of my house by 5:00 a.m. and I don't stumble back into the house until 8:30 p.m-9 ish where I usually cook a little bit to eat and then fall asleep .

Before long, he's showing me pictures on his phone of his garden, cooking and handyman work, and exchanging numbers with me. 

We had the same on our farm, in fact some of our native stockmen would hang water fowl for several days (tenderizing) before eviscerating for cooking.