While you may not plan on having code in your place, so tenants will have them on speed dial.

Also seems like its pulling teeth to find contractor properly bid this out ( I know this is still part of busy time of the year).Also what is best way to get contractors to bid and to speed up bid process.

The speed of finding a tenant depends on how desirable the unit is for the area, with regard to the area supply of such a spiffy listing;  a week or 2 to do select tenants and gather deposit.  

To give one example, imagine an investor who buys a property with seven rooms, one kitchen, and three bathrooms.

As Matt posted the Chicago landlord tenant ordinance above, be very careful, if a landlord screws up the security deposit you can be out 3x or 4x the security deposit, automatically, and there are lawyers advertising in Chicago like crazy to help tenants made money off of this ordinance.

A great deal can be found, just as it can on any other property, but foreclosures are not automatically a great deal just because they are foreclosures.

I am not up to speed on the regulations there, but you might consider putting out some signs of your own.

On some roads you can reach speeds of 65 miles per hour and you pass by cars going the other way that are 3 feet away from you.

Like most new investors, one speed bump I have now is lack of cash.

This is in fact why a lot of people like the automatic scale that comes with commercial.