To save money he bought a ton of food and expected me to buy a freezer so he could store it all.

It's not on your list but food for thought.

Example: have 1 cabinet and 2 drawers with food debris out of 20, you won't be able to claim charges. 

When I was in college the neighbor guys got the idea to take the grill into the living room to cook their burgers.

Following a big mindset shift I discovered Robert Kiyosaki, Bigger Pockets, Brandon Turner, David Greene, Grant Cardone, Kris Krohn and the list goes on and on I couldn’t stop reading or watching their informative videos all day every day for months being unemployed that’s what I did while also working a seasonal job on my girlfriends fathers food truck for some income learning everything I could about investing in real estate and the secrets of the wealthy knowing that this was it this was the thing that was going to be my vehicle building wealth and financial freedom!

Don't approach, definitely stay as far as possible from cubs, don't leave food out. 

Cook County has a convoluted formula for determining RE taxes from the assigned fair market value, so I would definitely get familiar with how to calculate.

@Edward Jakubiak, Wonderful strategy you've got cooking. 

I only ask because I would be an out of state investor looking in the cook county area (zip code: 60636).

I would like to know if we have any investors meet or get to gather in the northern Illinois area (Lake or Cook County).