Pay close attention to the capital stack, how much debt there is, how much preferred equity there is, how much the GP is co-investing, how much they project rents to rise organically every year, what exit cap rate they're assuming, how much cash reserves the property/investment will have, how much does the deal returns change when you add 50-200 bps to the cap rate, what is your breakeven occupancy and exit cap rate, and a bunch more. 

The DSCR products for investors are pricing below 7% on a 30 year fixed with healthy credit and reserves. 

Make a good connection at your home improvement store/outlet whatever it may be.

Not that its impossible to get creative financing or that its bad to start investing I'm not saying that by any means at all the earlier the better but the safety blanket is small with no reserves for an expensive learning experience which in this industry is likely. 

How much would you have in reserves? 

With Baselane we just budget better with an actual reserve account.We also use partners like Obie to get savings on Insurance. 

Currently, the store space is zoned for retail and the variance would allow it to host events there such as birthdays, office parties, wakes, etc.

@Ray Dixon, most of my clients and experienced investors have at least $5k set aside for each property as a reserve fund.

I was going to potentially store sensitive information about my clients in their database.

The owner of a corner grocery store works 13 hour days, 7 days a week.