I am not sure if I can dissolve the previous component of my LLC and be allowed to keep the name etc.  

plus of course you have that 14k rattling around in your pocket, rinse and repeat.These are fairly conservative figures but they depend on a number of important variables:The income and expenses are close.There's not a ton of deferred maintenance or building components at the end of their life.That the seller will accept 8% interest only (it's really pretty good compared to the alternatives today, maybe he'd even take less).That you can refi at 75LTV and something close to 6% in five or so years (with three or four years of solid operating history you should be able to refi... or sell at a nice profit).And of course that you can operate the property to those numbers.Good hunting-

(Horizontal cracks are a big deal, vertical cracks not as much), condition of main beams (if it has wooden structural components, is there wood-destroying insect damage?)

While I could have replaced a leaking component in my 12 year old HVAC system I decided to replace the system with a more efficient, quieter and reliable (I hope) new installation. 

The vacant side that I would be moving into was recently updated and has many new components.  

Conversely a business could do 500,000 in sales and have a net profit of 220,000 before taxes each year.The biggest component when I look at buying a business is that if it's a job or an investment??

Somewhere on the forums someone suggested looking at the major components of a property such as roof, appliances etc.  

If you want to get into the nitty gritty of depreciation that improvement value is actually made up of building components, land improvements and tangible personal property.

The shipping container is going to add another component of complexity to the process, design, engineering.

You need to understand the basic math and components that go into analyzing a property before worrying about using a calculator.