NAR Says - Existing home sales fall to lowest level in nearly 30 years and Median housing prices rose to a record high"The National Association of Realtors released data that showed existing home sales declined to the lowest level since 1995 last year, with 4.06 million homes sold on an annual basis.Meanwhile, the median home price median home price rose to a record high of $407,500 in 2024."

I view real estate investing as another wealth building tool in my tool kit.

Talk about taking hospitality to another level. 

I've been using the GE  GFW148SSMWW // GFT14ESSMWW models which comes to $1,650+ tax for units and stacking kit. 

These are grain bins which are much wider and used for holding fully dried grain storage.They are available as kits.

@Jennie Berger gave you the whole kit & caboodle on Chicago zoning so I don't have a ton to ad, however, I'd highly encourage you to engage an architect like @Samuel Pavlovcik or @Prashanth Mahakali, both are awesome local Chicago resources.

They have a NEW TITLE AGET KIT FOR BEGINNERS accredited instruction here: (and association membership for those in the industry) https://www.alta.org/career-and-learning/webinars-and-traini...

Cosmo - I personally don't know Phoenix well, but if I had to do this in another city I would look at income levels, crime levels, and population growth (if you can) by zip code and/or area within a DMA as a starting point.

Quote from @Steve K.: It’s not very common but I have seen this done before.

Thankfully you can still see what he put on the Next Level Equity site here: Next Level Equity Archived SiteUnfortunately Justin Goodin is back with a new "premier investment opportunity" he's calling Goodin Development.