I would like to start with building a rental portfolio to achieve financial freedom for myself, support my parents, and help others if possible.I understand how expansive my area (orange county) is, so im interested in possibly investing in Las vegas, chicago, or other areas.The other options i'm considering is house hacking, but the market seems to be a bit high at the moment.

I will say the airports are limited in contiguous land and thus expansion aint easy.

The warm belt states experiencing high growth from baby boomers retiring and migrating out of the cold belt states have plenty of retail tenants small and large with expansion plans ready to go in those spaces.Typical time in most warm belt states to re-tenant and get rent coming in to dark STNL could be anywhere from 3 months to 1 year depending on box size, location, mom and pop versus regional and national tenants who tend to move slower and be more methodical.We are not moving to a society where people sit at the computer all week long and stay in a house and drop ship 50 packages by drones.

So; I'm looking at expansion of a current business model and am looking around locally for vacant/underutilized commercial properties.

I would think with the expansion of foreclosures, we would be very busy.Which companies do you think is the best to work with?

He also mentioned that you need a license (of some sort).Seems like an OK business to run/have, however not much expansion potential unless the park itself expands. 

Thanks Charles they do keep them up i lived in three of them when i was teen ager and few of my family members have also rented there they have been selling some of the older ons and having newer ones placed in there respective spots and there is a whole lot of room for expansion

It's also why you see the same lines or expansion joints (spacing filled with some flexible material) in some driveways and garage floors.The standard in the industry (at least in most new home building) is that a crack in the slab (including garage floor) is not an issue unless it exceeds 1/4 in horizontal or vertical displacement.  

A mall was built in 2005 8 minutes from duplex. 2 years ago they started a major expansion project adding hundreds of shops and restaurants.

I don't know what I'd do to cover the expansion gap.Ideas?