Investors have targeted the single-family housing market, and, according to Taylor Johnson client MACK Cos., Illinois has no shortage of offerings. Eric Workman, vice president of sales and marketing for MACK, told MarketWatch that the Chicago market alone has 200,000 homes in the foreclosure pipeline. MACK purchases foreclosed homes, rents them to qualified individuals, inflatable for sale and often sells them to investors.

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