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Dan Nelson

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About Dan
We are an investor friendly real estate team in Chicago. Our specialty is 2 to 4 unit buildings and house hacking, the ones where you live in one unit and rent the others. We have been buying them here for twenty years and we own them ourselves. Most of America says duplex. In Chicago we say two flat, and the two flat is the building we know best.

My wife and I started the same way. We bought a building, lived on one floor, and a renter on the other floor helped pay our mortgage. We rehabbed that building and sold it, and we kept going. Since then we have bought, rehabbed and sold dozens of properties in Chicago and the suburbs, and we still own and manage rentals here.

That is why we read a building the same way we read our own. When we walk one with you, we show you how to run the numbers yourself, so you can spot a good building on your own and say why it is good.

Some of our clients are buying their first property. Some are on their tenth. Both are welcome, and there is no dumb question.

Our Chicago 2 to 4 unit guides, our neighborhood numbers and the rest of how we work are at DanLovesHouses.com.

Dan Nelson is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois with Compass.

Dan Nelson’s Listings

$1,100,000 | 4303 North Sawyer Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618
1/28
Listed By CompassContingent

$1,100,000

8
Bedrooms
Unavailable
Square Feet
0.08
Acres
$779,000 | 11 Nicholson Street, Joliet, IL 60435
1/22
Listed By CompassOpen: 10/10 12:00PM - 02:00PM

$779,000

4
Bedrooms
Unavailable
Square Feet
0.34
Acres

Dan Nelson’s Transactions

Past Sales
$1,350,000 | Undisclosed Address, Chicago, IL 60601

$1,350,000

3
Bedrooms
1,574
Square Feet
a front view of a house with a yard

$1,315,000

5
Bedrooms
3,900
Square Feet
0.07
Acres

$1,300,000

5
Bedrooms
0.06
Acres

$1,200,000

30
Bedrooms
0.43
Acres
a front view of a house with a yard

$1,160,000

3
Bedrooms
3,478
Square Feet
0.09
Acres
a front view of a house with a garden

$1,150,000

9
Bedrooms
3,872
Square Feet
0.07
Acres
front view of a house with a door

$1,100,000

10
Bedrooms
0.07
Acres
a front view of a house with a yard and garage

$1,000,000

5
Bedrooms
3,919
Square Feet
0.25
Acres

$979,000

4
Bedrooms
2,902
Square Feet
0.09
Acres
$975,000 | 4222 North Claremont Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618

$975,000

3
Bedrooms
1,811
Square Feet
0.09
Acres
a front view of a house with a garden

$950,000

9
Bedrooms
5,154
Square Feet
0.10
Acres
$950,000 | 9101 Pottawattami Drive, Skokie, IL 60076

$950,000

5
Bedrooms
4,431
Square Feet
a front view of a multi story residential apartment building

$942,450

11
Bedrooms
0.09
Acres
a front view of a multi story residential apartment building

$925,862

7
Bedrooms
2,735
Square Feet
0.07
Acres
a view of house with outdoor space

$915,000

5
Bedrooms
3,997
Square Feet
0.07
Acres
$885,000 | 3936 North Lockwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60641

$885,000

8
Bedrooms
4,200
Square Feet
0.09
Acres
$879,000 | 2712 West 24th Place, Chicago, IL 60608

$879,000

9
Bedrooms
0.07
Acres
a brick building with a large windows

$875,000

8
Bedrooms
0.72
Acres
Past Rentals
front view of house with a yard

$3,500

4
Bedrooms
4,625
Square Feet

$3,500

4
Bedrooms
$3,300 | 212 Valerie Court, Glenview, IL 60025

$3,300

3
Bedrooms
$3,200 | 212 Valerie Court, Glenview, IL 60025

$3,200

3
Bedrooms
a front view of a house with a yard

$3,000

2
Bedrooms
1,000
Square Feet
a front view of a house with a yard

$2,895

2
Bedrooms
1,100
Square Feet
a view of a house with a yard

$2,600

4
Bedrooms
1,242
Square Feet
a front view of a house with garage

$2,300

3
Bedrooms
1,848
Square Feet
$2,200 | 4830 Wright Terrace, Unit 2, Skokie, IL 60077

$2,200

3
Bedrooms
1,370
Square Feet
$2,200 | 4830 Wright Terrace, Unit 1, Skokie, IL 60077

$2,200

3
Bedrooms
1,370
Square Feet
$2,000 | 4032 North Albany Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618

$2,000

2
Bedrooms
1,000
Square Feet
a front view of a residential apartment building with a yard

$2,000

3
Bedrooms
1,397
Square Feet
a kitchen with stainless steel appliances granite countertop a refrigerator stove top oven with wooden floor

$1,700

3
Bedrooms
1,300
Square Feet
a front view of a house with a yard

$1,700

2
Bedrooms
1,000
Square Feet
$1,700 | 5359 West Berenice Avenue, Chicago, IL 60641

$1,700

2
Bedrooms
1,000
Square Feet
a front view of a house with a yard

$1,650

2
Bedrooms
780
Square Feet
0.07
Acres
$1,400 | Undisclosed Address, Chicago, IL 60619

$1,400

2
Bedrooms
1,000
Square Feet
a building view

$1,400

2
Bedrooms
1,000
Square Feet