Much like the rest of the country, Chicagoland areas have been sucked dry of the low hanging fruit......

I have the 20% down for this property but don't want to spend it otherwise my wallet would run dry and I don't want to be in that situation!

My original plan was to do a more thorough inspection during rehab, spot treat, but not tent unless there were signs of active infestation.The first potential infestation location was on an outside wall with some dry rotted T11 siding, so I was going rip it off, inspect, and replace.

But as of last June, closed-end real-estate vehicles launched in 2013 and 2014 still held $24.8 billion in dry powder, capital committed by investors that has yet to be spent, according to research and data firm Preqin Ltd.The problem is likely to get worse.

A good property manager is golden, a bad one will bleed you dry each month.During my PCS moves or deployments i used to use "good ole boy network" for property management.

I am a guy , now if I am in a house with 2 females I would be subsidising  a lot of their utilities , I dont blow dry my hair , take long hot showers , and dont do different loads of laundry for different clothes . 

I am looking at houses that have barns on them as well I saw one is already dry walled needs floors more walls and doors call it income!

I think their wells were drying up.

Some of the reading can be dry but gems on creating win-win transactions with this group are spread throughout the book.

By now the baseboard is dry to the touch.