She does not own a cleaning company or anything but can I withhold some of the deposit to pay my mother for her efforts?

Once you do that, the electric company has a monthly minimum charge just to have service, even if no electricity is used.Without electricity, the garage doors could be an effort to open for the elderly or women, for example.

   - My word is valuable to me if I say I will close on a property I will make every effort to close and not lead you astray

If you're just complaining about the MLS being tough and no good deals on there, well then you're right and maybe time to take your efforts elsewhere.

There is certain overhead of time/effort to manage those rentals, but here is the thought process. 1.

In a perfect situation you may have one per property, but the cost and effort involved in maintaining that many LLC is cumbersome.

My family and I plan on settling here (I actually live in NW Indiana, currently 45 minutes from downtown Chicago but the plan is to move back to the city next year at some point).So I'm genuinely seeking your advice, @Brie Schmidt - I know you're one of the leading experts on this market and have been active in it for years.

In an effort to get everyone partially introduced, I took the liberty of copying and pasting the attendees' info from their posting onto one sheet.

I will certainly make every effort to get to all the advice...

It's a jumbled mess of a writing effort - which I am usually adept at interpreting - but in this case I have to ask: What is she talking about?