If you want to keep the same manager throughout Chicago then you want to have someone that has a larger coverage area.Experience - If you renting the house you live in then this isn't as big of a deal but if you are buying your first of many multi family homes you want to find someone that has done it before and can be another guide in your journey to work with you, your GC, and your Realtor. 

Yes we made more cash on larger renovations, but they took several months versus 1-2, and costs were much higher, so as a percentage the return was lower.Finally, on your first couple I would go in with as much cash as possible. 

If it is a duplex, fourplex, even slightly larger, the other tenants will hear about it, so getting in front of it makes you look like you care, which I know you do since you are even posting here. 

Does anyone else have visibility into larger buyers and their responses?

You did get the larger deposit, that was smart.

While tenants may have trouble paying their tenant portion of the rent, in most cases the larger portion of the rent is paid by the government housing authority.I am seeing projections that the United States may experience 20% unemployment.

Generally parts of 32206, 08, 09, 19 and 54 have larger inventories of cheaper properties but I do not recommend for out of area investors...local self managers are doing ok.Just my 2 cents.

I'll still hire you for other tasks, but if you tell me you're able to do something and it comes out like trash or causes larger problem I'm never going to call you again. 5.)

If you make a larger improvement or repair, keep the receipts and get the 1099 if necessary.

I thought it would come naturally from a decline in rates and a lack of competitive advantage among the larger lenders, but it’s clear the pandemic, and what’s likely to be a global recession, is now the driver.There are already a handful threads here from lenders asking how they can foreclose on the seconds they made.