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There are tons of qualified individuals who can help you shop products and their select lenders playbook utilizing the find a lender tab at the top of the page more often than not, an experienced broker who can help you shop a married of options, across-the-board of every lender in the nation is going to be able to provide some great value to you in order to save time on shopping.

Since you live in one side of the duplex you may be able to be more selective about the character of the tenant(s) that inhabit the other unit.

Here is our application and a document explaining our application process and selection criteria.""

I will probably only be budgeting to use up to $600k to be safe, which I know will be tight depending on what location is selected.

They can still work and careful selection is important. 

This is a learning property for me, so we’ve learned about managing tenants, making the right improvements, selecting contractors and managing the process.

You can select "IND" in the area field on your Illinois MLS.  

To avoid going through the same poor experience, keep reading.Even if someone gives you a referral here, do NOT make the mistake of assuming that the PMC will meet your expectations, just because they met the expectations of the referral source.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!

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