There is no FHA 3.5% down on an apartment building or a shopping enter, there's lots of gov't incentives for "everyone to own a home" and since 1-4 units residential are all considered "single family" homes that means young investors get to ride that gravy chain for up to 4 units, but nothing like that exists for CRE (the gov't backed CRE mortgage options require MORE experience than traditional/vanilla commercial mortgages).Let me know if I can help.

It's got a village like feel with locally owned shops and eateries.

My insurance agent often does an adequate job.That sentance alone tells me I should shop around agents/providers, but what is the easiest/most effective way to do that?

So it looks like if your shopping at a multiplier of median home prices, yup, that inventory is finally not below the threshold for shortage.... by 0.2mnths supply....

Even so much as to put all trash in trash bags rather than just throwing it away.

In the stock world we call them bag-holders and that's what many were.

The policy is coming up for renewal and I tried shopping around and have been told that either it is not insurable due to an old type of wiring or it will cost 100% more for the policy than I have now.I tried to do a cash out refi and was told there isn’t any equity to take out.

Pretend to be a renter and secretly shop the competition. 

REITS that own shopping malls or sky-scraper office buildings are effectively the walking dead and many will not survive. 

Why are you shopping for property in Akron, Ohio?