The Chicago Real Estate Investor Almanac

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. What is The Real Estate Investor Almanac?

* The Real Estate Almanac is a database of thousands of real estate investors who purchase real estate in the chicagoland area.

 

2. How many investors are there in each volume?

* There are "500" real estate investor entities per volume. (LLC's, Corporations & Limited Partnerships)

 

3. How do I know which volume I want to buy?

* As a real estate professional, you should want to own all of the volumes to gain a competitive edge over your competition. However, if you want to focus on a particular area of the city, volumes are assembled according to "Townships", (see map above)

 Example: If you want to focus on reaching out to the investors who predominantly buy in Lakeview Township, purchase Vol. 3.

 

4. Are the investors located in the townships that I'm purchasing?

* Each volume is assembled from properties purchased in each township. A real estate investment company may or may not have their principal office location in that particular township. Example: An investment company may own 10 properties in Lakeview, however, their principal office location of their business may be located in Northbrook or Cicero or New York etc...

 

5. What information is in each database?

* Each database consists of: the name of the business, principal location of the business, partners/ members/ officer info, additional addresses (if applicable), how many properties the company owns and the type of investment property they buy (residential, commercial, vacant land etc...)

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​6. Is this information current?

* The data for each volume has been recently assembled and is current as of 2025.

 

7. Will this be the only and final product or will the information be updated?

* The information in each volume will be updated annually.

 

8. How reliable is the data?

* The information assembled in each volume was compiled by public record research and due diligence professionals with 30+ years  experience in real estate and was compiled using several sources of the public records and cross referenced. 

 

9. If the data was assembled using public records, couldn't I just go to the public records myself?

* Yes you could, however, to assemble the data in the way Legwork has assembled the data would take the average individual approximately 3 to 4 hours a day and approximately 8 to 11 months to complete. WE HAVE DONE THE WORK FOR YOU. HOW VALUABLE IS YOUR TIME?

 

10. How do you classify "Investor"?

* We have done our best to classify "Investor" as "Any entity that owns two or more investments properties". There are those entities that own only one property within our databases and due to the nature of this industry, property inventory for any company can and may change on an annual basis.

 

THE CHICAGO REAL ESTATE INVESTOR ALMANAC IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE REAL ESTATE DATABASE EVER COMPILED IN COOK COUNTY. 

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EVERY VOLUME IS JAM PACKED WITH THE CURRENT DEAL MAKERS IN THE CHICAGOLAND REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY. PURCHASERS OF THIS PRODUCT MUST EXERCISE CAUTION AND DEMONSTRATE DUE CARE WHEN MARKETING THEIR SERVICES ETC... TO ANY BUSINESS. THE DATA CONTAINED WITHIN EACH VOLUME IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND LEGWORK DOES NOT WARRANT TO THE ACCURACY OF THE DATA NOR ACCEPTS ANY LIABILITY FOR ITS CONTENT OR USERS. 

 

UNAUTHORIZED DUPLICATION OF ANY PORTION OF EACH DATABASE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED!

The Chicago Investor Almanac is available by "Township" as organized by the Cook County Assessor's Township Maps. Each volume is available separately. There are 7 volumes thus far and more to come soon in 2025. Please be advised that that there are terms of use when purchasing the volumes                                        

UNAUTHORIZED DUPLICATION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

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THE CHICAGO REAL ESTATE INVESTOR ALMANAC 

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General Terms and Conditions for Use of "The Chicago Real Estate Investor Almanac.

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UNAUTHORIZED DUPLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED, THIS DATA IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS LIMITED TO ONE USER PER LICENSE

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