An older mom-and-pop restaurant or a stand-alone would suffice if you could find one. 

Hello Cory, thank you for your input, I appreciate this from a seasoned investor and one who has boots on the ground.

Please provide useful advice on locating, assessing, and negotiating private money lending deals, especially from seasoned professionals.

Interesting, I was reading the Key Data report on Next Season's US Rental Trends and noticed they include owner nights and hold nights in their calculation.  

Regarding fire places, our friends that have older apartments with fire places are often filling the fireplace gap with electric LED "virtual fireplaces". 

.• What is the property seasoning?

As a newcomer, I’m eager to learn and would love to hear from the seasoned experts in this community.If you were starting over today, how would you approach getting into commercial real estate in Minneapolis?

What do you seasoned pro's think?

Most mortgage companies require a mortgage to "season" for one year before they'll sign a partial release of mortgage.

If most are selling with older garage doors you will get a good idea that buyers aren't being put off by it.