Chicago is such a vast area that you have to get very granular and figure out precisely what you want!   

Companies like Apple are vastly overvalued, trading at dozens of times their actual earnings despite offering little genuine innovation.

The vast majority do not..

But then what brings me back is the creativity of real estate, the vast possibilities to build wealth and my own business where I answer to me.

And perfectly details how illegal immigration is BAD in a whole array of ways including to the illegal immigrants themselves, as a life of exploitation is NOT a life or system of any good. 

I would advise caution, small markets that vastly outperform attract people and the market due to its size quickly saturates and goes to crap. 

A 50/50 split, while not uncommon in the world of flipping, is very sponsor friendly, relative to the typical syndication which will typically start at 80/20 or 70/30 splits, with a vast majority of proceeds going to the LPs, along with a preferred return that gives them 100% of the cash flow up to a certain annualized return metric.  

In my experience, no - with the (not so recent) changes, a 1031 exchange is only done for similar types of investments (defined generally as "like-kind" assets), with the vast majority being real estate for other investment real estate. 

Unfortunately for all concerned, it just doesn’t work out a vast majority of the time. 

These costs are so high, and time consuming, that the vast majority of people that would like to do these small developments on 1-4 units, can't make the numbers work.