Here's a picture of my teenage son demo'ing a bathroom today.Any other pictures of the next generation learning the real estate biz?

Commercial tenants can be credit rated tenants with corporate guarantees or the mom and pop type.The mom and pop type carry usually the most risk as a start up.Franchised stores such as Quizno's or a Subway generally there is less failure as the corporations makes sure the operator meets liquidity and certain training requirements.What usually kills mom and pop type businesses is poor planning and making the same mistakes over and over again.This is where a franchise is strong in that with their franchise fees the operator gets national and sometimes local marketing.They also get tried and true processes and systems to follow which greatly reduce them screwing up.With a mom and pop you are going with an unproven startup which if fails has very little to no assets to go after.Sometimes a mom and pop will have multiple locations and be more credible with assets and experience that are less risky tenants.When taking on a retail tenant that is unknown or not well known ask questions about how they will bring in business and their marketing plans.Many start ups believe you open up and people will find you and the business will come flooding in.This is absolutely untrue.I remember Papa Johns pizza back when I was working as a stockboy at Wal-mart as a teenager.

A pre-teenager can open an interior lock or climb out the window so just say no locks and see what they do. 

I am currently an admin assistant for a general contractor, no real estate experience, or really any work experience other than the typical teenage food business years and current office experience.

We are Atlanta's little teenage brother growing up (fast) We are all lucky to be in a booming city basically still many years of growth left I have to disagree on this being a good buy and hold market.

Disregard most of the above, its bias on one side of the street or another.The average business exec will move more times in a year than your average teenage girl will change boyfriends.IT personnel move where work takes them, or where the pay raises are.Job history is irrelivant, only employment fact that matters is:A: do they maintain constant employment?

They controlled for all of these in their study:Violent crime, property crime, narcotics, % Latino, % African American, younger people, unemployment, teenagers with divorced parents, owner occupied housing units, small business activity, and how 'run down' the neighborhood is.The following are statistically significant.

it is a rehab property that I bought to teach my teenage boys the process. 

Also this all hit brokers that were focused on running "sweat shops" where teenagers were running the office and the branch manager is the only one with the license.

I look forward to enjoying retirement with my family and children as they will be teenagers at that point.