Nah,  I didn't have license for years and did many investment deals.

Illinois REIA was established in 2015.

I have not, but as a licensed broker I would recommend listing on MLS which will post it to Zillow, Realtor.com etc. 

I'm also a mortgage broker licensed in FL.

.: Quote from @Jesse Dominguez-Castelan: Paul, as licensed agents my team and I do our best to find out as much information from the seller as possible so that we can provide you with what we hope is a complete picture of the property.

Establish a credit profile, credit score, and opportunity to apply for advanced credit/ OPM "other peoples’ money" to leverage for even more deals"So, really, you're paying $1K more to going Pace's Training because it already includes Prime's Corporate Credit Coaching.

In our experience that is what carries the day along with the area and the STR restrictions or lack thereof(a whole other conversation) that deems the valuations.Airbnb and VRBO have thought of this and are way ahead of it, we scaled quickly using these platforms for two high end STR that book out great, once we established that, we created a direct book website and are slowly pulling our repeats from that.

Its good that you've already established some target markets, I'd recommend diving deep into 1 or 2 markets, then branching out. 

I notice you didn't say you'd actually seen the tenant's policy.Are they properly licensed?

Austria, Germany, Luxembourg; these immediately come to mind as "ancient" developed areas in contrast to the "infant" that is USA, and they seem to be doing very well, very efficient, very well setup and established across the strata's.