I've done a lot of the heavy lifting narrowing it down to a few properties to look at.I am not a RE agent nor do I have any license of any kind, however I have access to the MLS and all the necessary contact info to set up showings (with the exception of a Supra).

I am trying to narrow my markets from 3 to 1.My choices are:1.

I'm not an offensively narrow-minded bumpkin wholly unprepared for lifelong learning and prone to making utterly idiotic statements about fake news and pseudo-facts, which I certain would have been if I hadn't gone to college.

Over leveraging (I call it white-knuckle investing) has two main problems: 1) you won’t realize any cash flow because it will all go to paying interest on the loans and; 2) with such a narrow profit margin, any small hiccup will cause you to crash and burn. 

Narrowing down your neighborhoods, finding a property, building a team, etc.

Then, narrowed down to a couple, meet with them.

With a little bit more information the group here may be able to help you narrow down suburbs and areas to look for and avoid.Paul

We’ve narrowed the list of homes down to three.

There are so many neighborhoods in Chicago so we are trying to learn and hopefully narrow it down somewhat over the the next few months.

Currently looking into payment processing options myself and have narrowed it down to Cozy, Rentler, TurboTenant, or Zillow at the moment because all are free for landlords and offer free ACH payments for tenants.