@Jill Buhrfiend can you be more specific as to the areas in the western suburbs?

If you want to keep things clear you can get a lease drafted that is room rental specific.

I'm curious if anyone on here has experience with tax reassessment in Illinois, specifically Champaign County.

I don;t typically have appraisal issues as banks I use do in house evaluations or a cross-pledge other properties and keep under a specific LTV.Think through why it is important to you that you close fast. 

Those companies trading with algo's have huge trading budgets allocated specifically to technical analysis.

@Michinori Kaneko Building a machine to replace a human at a job is different than building a machine to perform a specific task.

If you have specific questions about property management, I'll be happy to help!

I have been working in the science field, specifically pharmaceutical, since I graduated in 2013.

In oregon there are very specific laws regarding this.

That seems pretty clear which is why it's a common point in contracts, "applying for financing" is specifically measurable, if they can't prove to escrow they applied by a deadline specified in an offer then that should be a pretty clear breach and the EM should be collectable by the seller.