@Bryce Sablotny I don't think Marijuana would have a big impact on housing prices, but most people moving somewhere strictly for marijuana purposes would probably move to CA, NV, CO, or WA before IL

I reach out to a lender, submit the application (or verbally relay my information over the phone to avoid another hard inquiry), and when I ask for an estimate of rates, they disappear or take an unreasonable amount of time to respond and follow up is non existent. 

If your goal is to solely build credit, my suggestion would be to keep the following in mind:1.

Make sure you follow the statute on notice service - 3 good faith attempts to serve in hand then if unsuccessful leave in door and mail a copy.

I use 3/sf for following.

hey corey  congrats on gettting in on the rei fun its great that your learning But don't get stuck on analysis's paralysis because the one thing ive learned so far is That even if your 20 to 30  years in your still going to be learning, as well a lot of people get stuck in just learning but never execute Whatever you do the best advice I can give you is don't follow down that path Get out there analyze deals And make offers on the good deals what ever you do if your looking to buy and hold or you planing on wholesale and flips just make sure you not only learn but also exicute too good luck brother !!!

Hooked up with a realty as an assistant strictly for MLS access to find deals/run comps? 

I search Google and found the following.

Following.

@David Hedges, if you are looking at following the rules to a T and auctioned off the home, at the end of the day, you can outbid everyone