Quote from @Mark Fries: Welcome dashawn! 

McDonalds might not allow a chicken restaurant or a Starbucks, Panda Express wants to exclude ALL Asian food (Thai, Pho, etc.) so it is paramount that you understand the exclusive use clauses in each of the leases in the property that you are buying and how it will affect your ability to re-lease your spaces when they do ultimately go vacant. 7.

Quote from @Mark Fries: Some people prefer it, and others like me just try to avoid it.

It's a chicken and the egg kind of predicament, somethings gonna have to give. 

The water managed to perfectly get into the control panel and fry the entire unit. 

It’s the classic does the chicken or the egg come first.

Chicken and the egg.A non-refundable earnest money deposit, or option purchase, might help you get it under contract.

Oh, these chickens are coming home to roost. 

He assured me that it wasn't cockfighting and that he no longer kept chickens in the house.

These chickens take time to come home to roost.