We’ve began instituting a small bonus of 5% of total labor cost if contractor finishes on time, as well as a fee per day deducted from the final balance owed, for every day it goes over schedule.

How can I show their money as loan and pay them interest in monthly basis?

The Cook County Human Rights Ordinance: This ordinance prohibits people in Cook County (including employers, landlords, property managers, real estate agents, store and restaurant owners, bankers, lenders and Cook County government officials and employees) from unlawfully discriminating against or harassing other people on the basis of that person's race, color, sex, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge status, source of income (including use of a housing choice voucher), housing status, or gender identity.

Trucking in bottled water for the tenants on a daily basis is also very expensive.

If you have to be in the loop every day, it may not make sense to invest an hour away just to get $200 a month in cash flow. 

Homes there go for around 400-800k homes get cheaper and it’s more affordable but the traffic is horrible everyday.

By that, what I mean is, what data points/sources of data, have you used in the past, or that you currently use, to help you identify a spot in town that is either experiencing gentrification, or is likely to experience gentrification.This isn't question isn't meant to solicit anecdotal/qualitative responses like:"I drive the same road every day and have watched the properties go from being shacks that are barely standing, to getting torn down and replaced by new apartment complexes" -OR- "whenever Starbucks builds a store in an area of town where most of the properties are eyesores, distressed, or are mostly rented out... if Starbucks is building a store in that area, I know it's going to be up-and-coming"That type of advice may be beneficial for some, but much more circumstantial and prone to inaccuracy.

My grandmother (86) is getting too frail to go up and down the stairs on a daily basis, so she just stays on the top floor and makes my mom weight on her up and down the stairs. 

I live in Long Island and everyday I hear of someone else say "I'm leaving this highly taxed place" for areas with lower property tax like the North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, etc. but there's still such a shortage of houses around here.

I look at a lot of deals on a regular basis and only seem to find deals with 8% cap rates in the "hood" or in areas that have very little going on in them economically.