My concern though is, it is listed for $259k for both houses, and they are easily worth $50k or more than that together, even if they look like crap on the inside.

The only real reason for concern might be if you feel uncomfortable in the neighborhood you are farming, but then you might want to work in a nicer neighborhood anyway.There are some specific tools that are necessary to employ this technique, for you or your help.

can anyone direct me to more conversation concerning chicago real estate.

I am very concerned about re-inventing the wheels and not doing REI efficiently.

Locally, I wasn't overly concerned until today when there were big news stories about rationing rice.

It is not my main concern I just wouldn't know what to ask for.Lastly I'm assuming I would still be able to do this with homes that are up home(Chicago) and doing it form down at school (Mizzou) as long as I was still able to find homes correct?

TeamThis is Ram and I am beginner investor from Northern CA - Concord.

Any possible problems or issues with this contract i should concern myself with.

We have a house that has been on the market for four months. Several problems have occured to get where we are today, needless to say we still have the house on the market.

Yesterday I received a call from my agent...

I have never needed either yet and would frankly prefer to run like hell than ever get into a fight in someone else's territory (and not just for legal concerns) but the reality of the world is that there are bad people out there who are not governed by reason and must therefore be governed by other means.