For reference, here is the section: "“I began shopping at the bankruptcy attorney’s office or the courthouse steps.

Find an Insurance broker to shop the market and make sure you are in the right spot for an appropriate price! 

I do have customer service background working in high end restaurants in Orlando for 8 years (getting food shopped all the time and passing with 100%) and feel I would be an excellent asset to someones property in it becoming a successful STR.

Yeah, keep shopping, @Devin Cutler.

.- The city (5min away) redevelopment with new theatre, city walk, shops, outdoor skating, and more family friendly updates.- REIT's have purchased several facilities in the Boise metro (surrounding cities) area and are building (I wonder why??)

If, instead of a partnership, you take the role of a lender, your money will be safer.

Here is the backstory: I started buying single-family homes in Milwaukee 15 years ago and pretty soon migrated from C into B neighborhoods ("A" would be 500k plus here) and some of my friends invest in larger MF so I thought that's the next step for me as well and started shopping for a commercial deal maybe about 50 units.The issue is that I did not want to go into the affordable housing space and assets in the quality I liked were so insanely high priced that I would have needed 40% down to meet DSCR guidelines - not to mention rehab cost to bring it up to our standards.

You will learn much more, you will be safer, and you will eventually grow enough that you can delve into new methods without as much risk.

So, I had a local shop make her several home decor items, and one of them was a nice mug that read, "Mike can fix that".

These areas are known for better school districts, less turnover, safer areas, all resulting in better tenants taking care of your investment.