Chicago realtors should mandate that owners selling a 2-4 unit should prove the legality of those units before listing by supplying a zoning cert; it's a ~$150 cost that they have to eat anyway.

But I’m stuck with it now, and I don’t want to eat in trouble down the road for posting noticed within the grace period called out in the lease.

Watch out the BP hounds might eat you alive for that 

I will eat the cost of my home yard care to skip the 1099.

We found out when a renter mentioned the smell, it is very hard to tie it back to a specific person so we are going to eat that cost. 

I watched a guy walking down the street eating a bag of potato chips...he ate the last one and threw the bag on the ground as he was walking...there is no cure for that...not all the tax breaks in the world can change human behavior. 

Wood shingles will eat into your insurance premium.

Other expenses to consider: taxes, property management, repairs, and vacancy will eat away at that margin. 

@Suzanne Lee How do you eat an elephant? 

Med students eat, sleep, study, work.