With the addition of wire pricing being through the roof and blue boxes being impossible to find (leaving only the newer expensive boxes) this price might be normal in your area.

Different versions of the logo were blue and black and brown and beige.

My first STR was a disaster- I had people throwing 20+ people parties in the small 1B1B  apartment, someone had  female issues on my light blue kitchen chair and the cops were called multiple times. but I LOVED it, made money and would do it all over.

I love Portage Park for buy-and-hold investments...being off the blue line here in Chicago it will be an ever-appreciating market.What type of renovation work did you have to do? 

You should know better.Let me again show you exactly what DMM is and how it traps you into bankruptcy especially for beginners.Orange line is your potential profits,  and the blue line is the potential Cost/deal.Unless you are sending 10,000 mailers, you are gambling and you know what they say about gambling.

great job but dont retire yet... taxes buddy. you'll lose at least 33% of that to income tax... more if you live in a blue state.

When you are done, consider painting with "haint blue".

@Nancy Wilson  - Go to the PROFILE & SETTINGS link ( http://www.biggerpockets.com/profile ) in our nav [mouse over your photo in the blue nav to find it] and you can make any changes as needed to your profile/settings.

Relative to zip codes, it seems I've received a lot of mixed reviews about the market economics of 38127 (blue collar, crime ridden, too many 3/1's etc.).  

This carpet was close enough to the hall and other bedrooms but far closer than the blue it was when I bought it.