- Did they shop around? 

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.

@Ryan TallAs business traveler to SLC frequently to the DT area having access to transportation and walkability to a place like Trolley Square with restaurants, shops, and a store. 

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??)

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.

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".

@Hunter Harmon you will run into this in Socal, I know I did when I was shopping for my house hack.