I'm looking at buying a small business and like to split the real estate and the business during the valuation process.  For the real estate side buyer and seller agree that a triple net rent of $45k a year is a good ...

The 4 plexes were basically retail.

it works.. you put up 2500.00 deposit to bid.. if you are the successful bidder EM is usually 3 to 10k per property.. then its a normal escrow.although sales are as is.. so make sure before you put up your EM and bid deposit that your sure you want to buy it.I would say 95%of the deals are pretty much retail.. and about 5% are decent deals .. so you really have to watch it and scour the site to make a decent score.

@David Flores in my opinion if your goal is to sell any property at 50% of market value just work backwards from there on how much you would like to make. in your example of this property lets say you wanted to make $5,000. that property would have to retail at $34,000 in order for you to sell it at 50%($17,000) pay the $10,000 in liens and pay the owner $2,000I think everyone is going to be different on what they think their time is worth so if your happy putting up $12,000 for liens and purchase to make $3,000(25%ROI) because the market value is $30,000 then do it at the end of the day you have hungry new investors willing to make a $1,000 and get some education then you have pros that won't do a deal for less than $10,000. you just have to decide what your willing to accept both in monetary and education because both are currencies in the investing world@Brandy Horkey I second what you've said, I know in Florida that the county appraised value is strictly for tax purposes and not what the actually market value for a property is.

A retail contractor deals more with one offs such as home owner remodels, an investor friendly contractor is expecting to do multiple jobs and stay busy, thus keeping their subs busy, and will do the work for less of an upcharge.Once you have those two numbers figured out then it's just plug and play like stated above.

If not, you may find it hard to sell to 'retail' (meaning owner occupant) buyers. 

No retail or grocery store jobs....I have my realtor license.

Get with Jonatan to find you a quality investment home either wholesale or retail - and bring it to us for management.  

I suggest connecting with a local real estate agent who knows Baltimore and works regularly with investors and retail buyers to help you get a better handle on your needs and then guide you in the right direction.Good luck, welcome to the Baltimore market, and welcome to Bigger Pockets!  

Since we are buying several of each item (we need 2-3 sets now) and hopefully will be rehabbing 8-12 by year 2/3, has anyone had success negotiating a bulk discount with either the big box brands or with a smaller family owned appliance store or even a retail distributor.