Shoot the guy, put the fire out, call the coroner to pick up the body.

They often leave the area after working for months (just to take a break or to wait out a market downturn) but are fairly sure they'll be back and need a place to keep their stuff. 

Reality is no body knows what the environment will look like in 6 months or a year from now.  

Or am I breaking some kind of law?

It wouldn’t even break even without it.

A PM will make or break the property

A lot of choices for this too.It's very uncommon for the mixer valve housing to go bad (they can leak but don't often break)The joys of home ownership...

There are legitimate negative macro-economic factors that deter folks from Chicago, but when you break it down by neighborhoods, there are still tons of areas that have positive net migration, job growth and large enough spreads that more than offset our lovely tenant-friendly environment :). 

Always an excellent way to break into REI!

Her answer was “when we’re more financially secure,” so I asked her to break that down and we narrowed it down to $15k in Emergency Fund (currently have $11k), credit card paid down from $7k to $2k, so really I’m only about $9k total away from starting the Real Estate Fund which itself should be about $15k to invest 20% in the $70k homes we have in our area.