We've put in offers on a couple single family homes that had major repairs needed but attractive list prices, and they ultimately they went for 20%+ over asking.  

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There is a good inventory in Chicago of empty rental units and your property prices and values are very attractive compared to areas such the San Francisco Bay Area.

Other areas are more spread out where there are only a couple 2-4 unit properties and they attract people that can't afford to rent a SFH.  

The accompanying image highlights the most aggressive Housing Voucher rents that an investor can obtain for properties purchased in a sampling of these Chicagoland suburban area.Investors, or want-to-be investors, can greatly leverage their investment dollars buy targeting purchases in the suburban areas where the average purchase price for a single family home is more attractive, since they will command the same amount of rent (i.e. a 4BR house rent for $2,175, under the Sec. 8 Housing Voucher program).And, if you're a Section 8 Voucher Holder, would you rather rent that 4BR house in a $1,200,000 property or pay that same amount of rent in a 4BR house of a $75,000 property?

Hi,I'm an international investor from the UK planning to go back to the US market.I currently own few single homes in the mid west but now planning to move into investment in multi family ranging from $2M-$10M.I would...

Try posting an ad on www.rentals.com.We attract a lot of high quality tenants through rentals.com and their network of websites.

Also, Keller Williams seems to attract a lot of newbies to either sales and marketing or real estate in general.

A client my mine up here in Connecticut is using that program and is getting an attractive rate with only 5%.

Heck, you could even do a marketing flier on the space and drop it off at other locations of the types of establishments you're looking to attract.