You might have to find a small type catch all brokerage that dabbles in residential and small time commercial.These types of firms do residential and a few land sales and occasionally a small gas station or inherited type small building commercial.For the experts that only do one asset class the small deals like this do not make sense as they typically have a lot of (hair) on the deal meaning many issues to work through.

In addition to damage to floors, grass, woodwork and walls, we've learned that dog hair can cause problems for hvac units and bath tub drains.

The nature of my investing will start as flipping single-family homes, and evolve into multi-family rentals and later into renovation of distressed multi-family residences.  

Naturally my eyes have been on Noda, Midwood etc and I have been watching the Meck County zoning board rezone building left and right for other developers.  

Out here in the flatlands, folks have a lot of brown/natural wood/beige furniture & linens, so gray is a little too trendy for some properties.

That is natural vegetation and looks nice as long as its not poison ivy.  

If you're going to buy out here you have to play the long game, you don't lose until you sell, that's why real estate is so great, even if the market tanks you still have a hard asset to collect money from (because rents do not go down) and you have tenants to pay your mortgage while building equity and historically San Diego has been a great appreciation market, so of course one shouldn't speculate, but let's be honest, Real Estate is inherently an appreciating asset by it's very nature. 

@Angela Henderson, they just call it "commercial" since the loan is made to a legal person (the LLC) and not a natural person (you). 

The investor/buyer naturally will want a better deal than usual.  

Sure, these are natural byproducts of doing what we all do, but I am really, truly into REI for the experiences of life.