You didn't give any addresses, but if you're talking about properties in your county (Cook County), you can go to this link and see exactly what the property taxes are for any given property: http://www.cookcountypropertyinfo.com/Pages/PIN-Search.aspxI searched a few houses and the property taxes are nowhere near as high as Zillow is apparently telling you they are. 

After going through the process of finding a policy that did not kill my cash-flow, I read through the declarations page and found that the policy had a 100% co-insurance clause.

Fill in the foundation below.Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthereLocate and attend 3 different local REIA club meetings great place to meet people gather resources and info.

Usually going back to an older sale is better than considering a property further away, a sale 10 months ago would be better than a comp 5 miles away with all other things being equal.You can find the way comps are viewed on the Appraisal Institute's web site.As you'll see there, the appraisal methods used in the market with comps is a process of deducting or adding to a sale price of the comp based on how the subject compares to the sold comp.

AAA Landlord Services, google it for the exact web address.

You may refer to IRS publication 590, pages 40 & 41 as well as Section 408 of the IRS code.You must keep in ind that an IRA, self directed or not, is a "seperate entity" from you.

The reason this entangled so many people in its' web was not that it was such a great deal, but rather the owner financing offered, as well as the Go Zone Benefits.

Get a home improvement book at Borders on painting and you can see in 2-3 pages just about all the tips you will need to get it done right.

Deceptive commercial email also is subject to laws banning false or misleading advertising.Additional fines are provided for commercial emailers who not only violate the rules described above, but also:- "harvest" email addresses from Web sites or Web services that have published a notice prohibiting the transfer of email addresses for the purpose of sending emailScraping our emails is a simple violation of our Terms of Service, so the "Harvesting" of our emails is a plain violation of decorum, and possibly, of the law.For fun, I decided to check my junk mail for the people behind this email and found that each of the 5 email addresses have been getting messages for each of the last three days about this webinar.I'm not 100% certain that this Cameron Dunlop is behind these emails, but a google search of "1 day dough" pulls up his website and I found pitches for this program on other REI sites, so it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that his people are behind these emails.I try to judge people by the way they act . . . while I don't know ANYTHING about the content of these seminars or the people behind them (other then what I've seen online), these tactics have caused me to NEVER want anything to do with them.Judge for yourselves . . . .

I go over the lease with the tenant prior to move in and have them sign each page, and make sure they understand this item.