Chicago Property Management Blog

As investors ourselves in many markets and class types, our primary goal is to attract and retain the best tenant possible for our properties.The “Best Tenant” can be defined by qualifications on their application, potential willingness to stay for a longer term, and/or ability to be a satisfied resident when we, as the landlord, successfully perform the duties as required by the lease agreement. (We try to avoid high mainte...

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...

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

Our Best Ever guest wears many hats, rehabbing and property management are two of them. He has completed a full rehab on over 250 properties and counting! He instructs us not to “wing it” and have a plan. You HAVE to hear his 27% Cap Rate purchase that will leave you fired up to find a beast of a deal! Listen now!Best Ever Tweet: PLAN PLAN PLAN…do not “wing it”.TWEET THIS Mark Ainley’s Real Estate Ba...

GC Realty & Development LLC is proud to share the stories of two brave children from Gilberts, Illinois. Lucas Winarski, a fifth-grade student, has been fighting a rare pediatric bone cancer, PHE, since July of 2015. Only three other cases of PHE exist in the United States. Kaylee Clark, a first-grade student, also fights for her life.  Kaylee was first diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia when she was just 9 months old. Recen...

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...

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...

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

Listen to How Mark Ainley Flipped Over 400 Houses and Manages Over 750 Rental Units from Real Estate Mogul Podcast - Learn How To Leverage Investing Strategies in Your Real Estate Business in Podcasts. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/real-estate-mogul-podcast-learn-how-to-leverage-investing/id1245797759?mt=2&i=1000413886867

Check out this podcast, Tom Shallcross, who is a client of GC Realty & Development, LLC. On this podcast Tom discusses his investment property growth strategy and how GC Realty & Development has contributed to his success. Tom went from 0 to double digit units in less then 6 months while doing full gut rehabs. Tom talks about GC Realty & Development at 8:30 minutes into the podcast and we are mentioned again at 10:45. We lov...