😂 Feel free to reach out, I'm always glad to make new connections.

I’d think for your first purchase it would be better to stay locally where you can be more hands on, even if you have a property manager, and get a better feel for the whole real estate investing concept.

But yeah–I struggle with that.Also, I feel it would be a strong tenant-friendly state.

I'd follow JW's thought process and even consider posting a note on your neighboring doors...to let them know as a neighbor that it isn't appreciated that there is smoking inside, please kindly consider taking your smoking outside.I feel like the approach is everything here...Chicago is a weird place and hard to enforce a lot of things.  

Feel free to reach out!

Here's an article with FAQs on cost segregation that you may find helpful:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1113749-cost-...Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

I knew I didn't feel confident, so I hired it out.

Being in an up and coming neighborhood, I feel like that is a prime location for a developer to look to purchase (the houses and the garages, which my house would be right in the middle of) to put up a multi unit dwelling.

I was inspired by Robert Kiyosaki's book... you all know the name of it!

We obviously are not trying to change our identity but do feel that we should be paying attention and planning for new opportunities that will align with our businesses.