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Who Are The Best Property Management Companies In Chicago and Chicagoland Suburbs in 2021

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Each year, GC Realty & Development LLC meets with well over 200 homeowners/investors in the Chicagoland area with respect to their investment property, or the need for professional property management services.  Because so many real estate owners know our thoughts and feelings (from this website) on all things “Property Management,” they often ask us about other local property managers (our competitors). As a c...

What Do I Need To Know About The Hanover Park Rental License

Hi, my name is Mark Ainley from GC Realty and Development. We're a local property manager out of Roselle, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. What to know in advanceThere's some things that you want to make sure that you know in advance, to make sure that you're not delayed in getting your property rented. So Hanover Park, like most other villages around here, do have an annual rental license fee. The number is now an op...

Everything About Investing in DuPage County

Where's a good place to invest in DuPage County?Hi, my name is Mark Ainley from GC Realty and Development. We are a property management company located Roselle, Illinois.  Now, Roselle is in Dupage County, which if you're familiar with the Chicagoland area, it's made up of six counties, DuPage County kind of falls in the middle consists of mostly the western suburbs, far west and near western suburbs. Now, a lot people ...

Top Agent Magazine - Mark Ainley

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Although he now runs one of the most successful Property Management companies in Chicago, initially, Mark Ainley had no interest in that side of the real estate business....continue reading Click Here to download.GC Realty & Development currently has two offices, one serving the Western Suburbs of Chicago and the other serving Chicago's South Side.Although he now runs one of the most successful Property Management companies in C...

The Thoughtful Entrepreneur Podcast: Customer Reviews and Using Your Network with Mark Ainley

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We have worked with Josh Elledge and his company, Up My Influence, for many years. The Thoughtful Entrepreneur Podcast is an informational source for business-minded people (some with very little experience and others with years of experience), so when I got the invite to appear with Josh, I was extremely excited.In this episode, we discuss who GC Realty & Development, LLC is and where we started from in the early 2000s. The show al...

Why an Out of State Investor Should Hire an Attorney

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Why an Out of State Investor Should Hire an Attorney When Buying Investment Property in Chicago/IllinoisThe purchase or sale of real estate, whether it is a single family house, a multi-family apartment building, vacant land or a commercial building, is an intricate process that begins with the signing of a contract and ends when the keys and the title to the property are transferred to the purchaser. Although Illinois law does not...

How Mark Ainley Built His Business to 450 Rehabs & 900 Managed Properties

Check out our newest podcast where I was a guest on Real Estate Money School hosted by Chris Naugle investor and host of HGTV's Risky Builders.Property management is becoming its own sector, and with technology and different efficiencies, it’s becoming scalable. – Mark AinleyView full podcast

Service & Assistance Animals

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Our Property Management Team recently completed training on the topic of service and assistance animal laws according to Federally regulated Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Guidelines.  We wanted to share the outline of information we learned with you so followers, or landlords searching for property management in Chicago or anywhere else, can learn about these important rules and have the opportunity to ask us an...

WE MADE THE INFLUENTIAL INC. 5000 LIST!!

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GC Realty & Development LLC’s continuous growth year after year has earned the company placement, for the very first time, on the Inc. Magazine’s Influential 5000 list of fastest growing companies in America.  On August 14, 2019, we were delighted to learn that we were awarded the 3,153 spot of the top 5,000 fastest growing companies.  At first I thought that was a mediocre ranking, however, when I found out th...

Podcast: How to Successfully Manage Your Rental Property with Mark Ainley

Dwaine Clarke interviews Mark Ainley, the Co-Founder of GCR&D. Listen to the podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/episode-006-how-to-successfully-manage-your-rental/id1457606006?i=1000437343308
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