I generally recommend if you're not going to buy a property in the city/market where you currently live, the next best place to look is where you have family (and presumably a place that you'll visit relatively often and easily).What is your price point and are you looking for turn-key properties or something along the lines of a "fixer upper", assuming you buy in Peoria or a similar priced Midwest market?

It kind of depends on the type of properties you're looking for funding on.

If you have every lived or have family you are visiting anywhere in the Midwest, that's where I would start.  

that OR consider buying a property you could short-term rent to people who literally just want to visit the casino if it's a large/decent one. 

Search the forums here for these kinds of stories from landlords.  

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So I used to work for a basketball tournament that played in Washington IL every year and so I often visited that town plus Peoria.

And after their visit, more than 48 of those detergent pods "disappeared".

They had to refinance it to basically kind of save the house now that everything is kind of on track she wants to renovate the property.

Your visits to the home seem to upset him, if you don't enter his room and your son is living there depending on the lease wording there probably isn't a violation.