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  • December 5, 2025

203(k) Loans, HUD Homes & The Hard Truth About Landlords with Tiffany Watkins

Veteran Chicago broker and property manager Tiffany Watkins sits down with The Bow Tie Attorney to show how 203(k) FHA rehab loans and HUD homes help regular buyers compete in tough neighborhoods—and to tell the unfiltered truth about what landlords actually face, from non-paying tenants and dangerous evictions to bad financial habits and a system that quietly punishes both renters and owners.
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  • December 5, 2025
203(k) Loans, HUD Homes & The Hard Truth About Landlords with Tiffany Watkins
Chicago broker and property manager Tiffany Watkins joins The Bow Tie Attorney to unpack 203(k) rehab loans, HUD homes, and the hard truth about landlords, tenants, and eviction in Cook County.
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  • November 27, 2025
Unlocking Chicago’s 2–12 Unit Goldmine with Niko Apostal
Chicago managing broker Niko Apostal joins The Bow Tie Attorney to explain why 2–12 unit buildings are the city’s most overlooked wealth-building asset—from house-hacking and ADUs to financing, maintenance, and finding the next cash-flowing neighborhoods.
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  • November 19, 2025
Bow Tied in Real Estate: Chicago Investors, Scams, and Mobility Areas
Broker Jamie McDaniel joins The Bow Tie Attorney to share hard-earned lessons from the Chicago investor and wholesale world — how to avoid being hustled out of your own contract, why there’s no substitute for the process, and how CHA mobility areas and opportunity zones can supercharge returns for landlords and investors.
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Real Estate
  • November 19, 2025
Two Bald Brokers and a Bow Tie: Turning Hustle into a Chicago Wholesale Real Estate Machine
The Bow Tie Attorney sits down with Dane from Chicago-based Property Pals USA to talk about turning a high-volume wholesaling hustle into a real business. They cover distressed sellers, messy titles, KPIs, marketing, AI, and what it really takes to survive a brutal year in Chicago real estate and come out with a stronger wholesale operation.
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Real Estate
  • November 18, 2025
Why Rockford Is Next for Commercial Real Estate Investors (with Broker Rosalind Astorga)
Mahmoud “The Bow Tie Attorney” Elkhatib and commercial broker Rosalind Astorga explain why Rockford is a high-potential market for commercial real estate investors and what business owners should know about leases, taxes, and buying their own building in Illinois.
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  • September 26, 2025
From Renting to Realtor: Esmeralda “Esme” Gonzalez on First-Gen Homeownership
Mahmoud “The Bow Tie Attorney” Elkhatib talks with real estate broker Esmeralda “Esme” Gonzalez about her journey from renter to homeowner to first-gen Latina realtor helping Hispanic families buy their first homes in Illinois.
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