My goal is to have my first investment deal by the end of July.Any tips or networking opportunities are welcome & greatly appreciated.Hope everybody is well,Harrison Cook

@Ethan Cooke That's quite impressive with what you are doing with "rental arbitrage". 

There is Chicago and Cook County which have some bizarre rules and then there is the rest of us.

I have a portfolio of 6 self storage facilities that are currently financed with a local bank.

One was on assisted living homes and it was fascinating how the investor dove into his first one by turning a large home into a 10-bed assisted living facility.

I'm in Illinois,  but not Cook County.  

I would have to agree on the rent comps too...A multi-unit residential property isn’t going to have the same amenities as larger apartment buildings with facilities.  

I would echo @Steve Cook on thisI think one of the things that prevents people from being successful with money is they think that have to get maximum returns every time.   

Once that crap is cooked in a building it gets airborne and the process is long and expensive to fix it .

One or all of the three tenants were cooking dinner (none of them wanted to admit who it was), they were frying something in a pan, it flamed up, they then dumped it in the sink and turned on the faucet.