Just curious, are you shifting your investing from Chicago to Grand Rapids or just moving your family and continuing to invest in Chicago?

Hello, ya'll, I am looking to streamline the way my tenants can contact me by implementing a Google Voice type answering system.

@Jake Fugman and I run an investor focused realtor team in Chicago and lately we’ve seen a shift where we are finding a ton of great deals for clients in the mixed use space above $1m but it seems as though pure multifamily cap rates for 5+ units above $1 million are just compressed (thus values overinflated).

We failed miserably and I ended up needing to shift the stairs back for headroom/landing requirements, bring in a structural engineer to sign off on work, redoing the plumbing rough-in for tub for fire wall separation between units, constructing a new 1 hr fire wall in basement, etc.

Want to shift focus to only distressed propertiesHere's what I'm thinking I will implement:1.

Want to shift focus to only distressed propertiesHere's what I'm thinking I will implement:1.

I don't think that's the same sort of massive permanent shift that removing the US Dollar from the gold standard was. 

My current yet ever shifting strategy is to focus on small commercial properties (5 or more units).

Apartments.com gave me problems, so I just shifted away from it and set reminders for myself to make sure rent is in.

Streamline your analysis system - put together an initial spreadsheet that lets you quickly plug and play, I've furthered the speed of this by adding in some lightweight VBA, a "clear" button, that lets you plug and play to run analysis fast - finding your ways to speed up your own internal process is important. 3.