Shop around. 

This facility has 144 Units and a 3400sqft shop house on the property.

I am not sure what companies are quoting you, but you should shop more.Make sure to have the location of where is showing the cracks so you can get a more accurate repair estimation.I have some contractors that I can recommend.

I believe they meet once and sometimes twice a month at a coffee shop here in town.

My bank tends to have more restrictions than others, but this hopefully helps as you shop around.

I specialize in kitchens and bathroom remodeling, and have a custom cabinet shop.

Take the cushions to an upholstery shop and see if they can add some cushioning to them, probably by wrapping them in batting.

Generally larger commercial properties and shopping centers are easier to classify with hard and fast rules, but to the points above the residential areas really move very quickly and have way more nuance than most people care to admit.zip codes are generally way too large for my liking at least in my market to provide any kind of insights other than macro level economics but even then highways or rivers that cut through a zip code can end up with totally different trade areas.we can get pretty granular with cellphone data and with grocery center data to understand the trade areas and their true boundaries, but that kind of data pull is generally only cost effective for investors doing larger scale projects or developments, and honestly we still just end up getting on the ground and feeling it out, so I generally tell people that the money is better spent on a plane ticket and weekend trip in the area you are looking rather than any kind of "trade area" level data studies.and generally B class in 1 area means something different than another. 

Since this is a post about our loan shop, I'll highlight that we are a small loan shop (30 employees), family-owned just trying to get more clients by placing their loans well and treating customers well.

We recently purchased a multi-family property and have someone living illegally in an uninhabitable, detached garage.  He continues to deny he lives there, lied to the police when they came with a code violation and i...