I'm a betting man and I think you'll be looking for a refund of that $100.

I bet they made a killing there.Also I just thought of if you have family in other areas / states that you visit often you could look there or have them be on the look out for any good deals.

I wouldn't use him at all.Even if you're in a well populated area, your best bet is to go on a site like zillow and put in the address of the house you're looking to buy.Then filter for only rentals and see what they have in the immediate area.

Your best bet in my opinion would be try to get sellers to finance to you and put as little as they would accept.

@Mike MakkarI own several other rentals and so my personal residence could just be a very poor performing part of that business or I could just pay my mortgage payment to the rental business as rent.

, inattention to actual contracts - and what they sign they need to follow, poor money management, and do not have any idea or care less about what neighbors may think, or feel, living next to a house that is deteriorating in front of their eyes.

I like St-Henri area, it is not too far from down town and those areas that used to be poor around down town are getting revamped and appreciate a lot.

The fax to PDF solution I mentioned might be good if the papers are distributed, but if they are all in one place and need to be scanned in bulk, then other high speed scanners might be a better bet.

If you're doing everything in Illinois, your easiest/safest bet is to form an Illinois LLC.However, an LLC may not be needed at this point.

@Emily Shirk  in this environment a good lender is frankly just as important as the agent lots of moving parts these days with the new TRID rules a poor mtg broker can kill a deal for you quicker than you can say what the heck happened.most agents go with lenders they know like and trust because the deal gets done.