MVA has a certification Certified MVA Expat Broker. 

There are some certification course you can take, but the State doesn't require those and they are not a substitute for the real estate license.  

Quite a few of those properties come with deadbeat tenants inside who won't be a good fit for my program.

However, you shouldn't have to spend hundreds of dollars, or thousands of dollars on a software program to be able to use QuickBooks, when all you need to know is how to use QuickBooks. 

@Monica Sanchez Welcome.It's easy for us to help if you show us your options: One company has this program ___ and this ___ compensation, another has x and the third is y.

For those of you familiar with trello, I created a few lists; "Email Lead" when an email comes in, "Questionnaire sent" when I emailed them my pre-screener, "Physical Visit" when they passed my prescreen and I scheduled an in person visit, "Awaiting Application" I gave an application to everyone that came to a physical visit "Application Received" When I received their application "Background check" when they passed the application review and were sent a background check request "To Landlords" when they passed the background check and now needed to be reviewed by the decision makers "To Deny" for anyone that did not meet criteria If anyone wants to see what this trello board looks like, let me know For the background check, I used the SmartMove program recommended in the ultimate guide to tenant screening and it worked very well.

My advice @Kevin Timbers, your money is better served using it to buy the liens or the deeds, not the "guru" program.

Look up the housing programs in Chicago and eventually you should get to the folks I am referring to.

If that checks out, they will send an adjuster to run the info through the insurance computer program, which will give the value of the claim. 

Now, married with our first child, we want to buy another home and would like to use the USDA program.