I am not thinking of anything else at the moment of writing this article.

@Dan Crenshaw hopefully this article will assist you. 

I may be biased because it's my adopted home, but Austin is nice.It's rated #1 by Forbes as a boom town:http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2016/01/14/...Top three cities to find a job:http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/01-04-...One of the best to start a career (which is different than finding a job:http://austin.blog.statesman.com/2016/02/03/austin...Ranked #1 city for young families:http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/05-10-...There are a lot more of these articles, these were just the first five that came up when I Googled "best cities to live".

(a) A unit of local government, as defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, shall not enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential or commercial property.Excerpt from: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?

Check this article out. 

Click on article here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/real-estate-shadow-flipping-1.3575906.

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Yes, @Nick Mertens, here's a link to the BP blog post on this topic: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/10/0....We used this as a guide and broke it down to use as an FAQ on our blog a few times. 

I feel like half my time in PhD school was devoted to stalking the real estate in Chicago and reading blogs on real estate investing :). 

Maybe you can start a blog about the process and make money that way...