The business at one point had 4 locations, but the previous owner, once the divorce started, shutdown the other locations.Things have been fantastic (with all the nice ups and downs of retail) and we are expanding to a second location. 

Keep in mind these are all retail MLO's who do government full doc loans.. 

I think they are actually going for a little bit more but I'm not trying to pay Max retail. 

About half of it consists of four individual buildings that are leased to various retail tenants.

Know who your targeted buyer is....if your looking to get as much money as you can your buyer is normally going be a retail buyer.

Even if you found a GC that would , all they will do is bump up what they pay their subs , and when they buy materials at the supply house the invoice will be retail their discount will be on another ticket .  

I am devising ways to re-purpose retail, warehouse, industrial,etc properties as the wave of retirees grows.  

They are also a retail store (the only retail in the building) and they have been putting goods for sale out on the sidewalk during the day.I don’t like it, but they are a long term tenant and I don’t want their first impression of me to be a jerk trying to throw my weight around...How should I approach this issue?

Hello, I've come across a property I'm interested in that has 6 units total - 3 apartments and 3 retail shop fronts.

things that turn off the retail buyer and in turn get the price down but that either are easy to correct or can wait.