She now owns a SINGLE level 4bed / 2bath / 2car garage... with a nice low maintenance yard and a separate entry for her piano studio.

The more I look into it, I'd be paying close to $1399 a month for rent for a studio apartment, and never seeing any of that money again.

Just because I do 65 on a studio doesn’t mean you will

We just got a second casino, an amazon warehouse, and there's a huge project to extend the chicago train line south to reach the new developments.

Dennis, for the same reason some people rent minuscule studio apartments and cook on hot plates, and others rent out most of their homes to boarders, and yet others live in properties gutted down to the studs while they do rehabs, etc.   

Amazon is leaning heavily on the idea of building a headquarters here.

As we are progressing with the studio condo bought on auction.com, we are also progressing on making an offer for a multi-family with 3 units.

Now it's also benefiting from the new developments such as Amazon and Tesla pretty close to it.

@ronald rohdeYes, it was a mixed-used building, consisting of a variety of specialty retail businesses, along with entertainment services, resturant, dance studio, and coffee stand.To answer your question about valuation, I did not base it on pro formas, but the current rent roll. 

I haven't found anything other than your typical websites that everyone already knows about, ie: amazon, wayfair, overstock, etc.