A deed held that never surfaces, in reality, won't be an issue.

@Steve Babiak What the law says and what happens in reality may be two different things. 

Instead, I mean that you have enough income irregardless of source to pursue your wants while providing for your family as decided by the family.I am now focusing on adding some house flipping for daily living expenses, using a disciplined numbers approach tempered by reality of need to eat.

Reality is, most owners who have been foreclosed upon either (a) lost the property and will have a hard time coming up with the money to redeem or (b) were so underwater they do not want to redeem.

As soon as the appraisal is supposed to reveal the current market value of the property the price i paid does deal with the reality..Actual rentroll is this (all 2-bedroom apt)1000 - former owners (their rental agreement is up Aug 01 2014)Others 750, 725, 800so what doesn't deal with the reality is their current rent level..

The reality is that I may only forward a few to dozens of leads to each agent each month.

Is there anyone located in the Chicago area that is familiar and successful in the reality industry that would be willing to meet with us?

Denise Uhrin at Ultimate Homes Reality (Google her website).

Recently we discovered that a tenant punched through one of the bedroom doors and claimed that it would cost $25 to replace when in reality it was a very difficult door to match with the rest of the hallway doors and it cost us nearly $300 for the door and the labor.The downside of not doing walk throughs is they tend to leave stuff behind for us to dispose of (mattresses etc) and the places tend to be left dirtier.So the compromise is do a walk through with them but refuse to agree on costs on the spot.

In reality, I'd be more concerned about the hefty fines and being black listed from RE, granted, you'd really have to mess up to wear orange, but life could change for you doing a lot less. :)