I know a couple of chicago eviction attorneys who might be able to help, they also do work in dupage County.

I'm diving into some of the public county-level Zillow data.

I'd agree with mortgage news daily - the "average mortgage rate" generally tracks very very closely with the 10-year treasury yield (+ a somewhat steady spread) - google and yahoo finance on that are pretty handy

The rest of the house was not much better and the damages by far exceeded the deposit.

RE is a get rich slow game and there are increasing number of people talking about how difficult it is to retire from your day job even with large numbers of rentals because cash flow is thin.On the one hand there is the Small But Mighty portfolio mentality which I believe is a book in the BP store by Chad Carson.

I plan to put two duplexes on the property but with this high appraisal is there a smarter thing to do to pull that money out of it or just use it for better collateral for the construction loan most banks will lend on the transfer price within a seasoning period. we face the same issues for land entitlement and development.

I think it depends on the market.. they approached me on a furnished rental I had in Vegas (Summerlin gated community A class)  We got basically double or a little more of the normal rent..

@Hersh Shah I ran into this post and thought of you.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.6 unit PadSplit What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Be careful of marketing the property on your own, there are a lot of scams out there directed towards tenants.