They offered me $10 grand initially when I sent them a letter saying I'd send the details of their scam to every news media outlet I could find. 

there are not and do not let anyone tell you they are.. they are brokering for HML    ..HML use private lender as a marketing ploy they are all HML any lender that lets a broker get a fee or advertises is a HML in the business.. a private lender the definition is you .. you have a few bucks in your IRA and yo want to lend it to someone you met at a REIA meeting and you do less than 3 ayear or so .. so you don't need a license in CA.. and for sure there are all sorts of frauds and fakes out there that will promises the moon as long as you pay them 500 fee or whatever in up front fees then you never hear from them.. they troll every social media outlet from facebook to linkdin to BPI mean what better place to troll for those looking for money than a real estate site.  

If that house was built to allow either an electric or a gas range, there will probably be a normal 120 V outlet behind the range, that was designed to run the oven light and timer on a gas range. 

David that is such a broad question.Shopping centers vary by age.Generally everything recycles after so many years.For instance if a shopping center is 40 or 50 years old it is past it's life cycle.Generally at that point you tear it down and build new.If a shopping center is say 20 years old many will just reface the outside to make it look new and repaint and re-stripe the parking lots.This is all predicated on if the shopping center still has a viable location or has growth shifted and now the center is int he old part of town.If it's in the old part of town refacing might not make sense and instead you buy at a lower basis to rent to Big Lots,outlet stores,etc. for less money.Still a tenant that will rent from you but at a lower cost because the area has shifted.With shopping centers it's all about the corner and access from 2 points,red lights,traffic volume and flow,etc.Anchored shopping center versus unanchored,tenant mix with credit rated tenant and frachise concepts versus mom and pop operations.Just like with houses you can run into big repairs with older shopping centers.Don't pay attention to current leases as much going in as what is market rent now and any leases fixing to reset.Also need to know level of shopping center saturation in a 2 mile radius depending and could be tighter or bigger in size depending on rural,subrurban,or urban core,and population count and demographic.Hope it helps.

Items that you may think should be standard like garage floor drains, ample exterior outlets and hose bibs are not standard with all builders.

The one gardener I had planted the front flower bed with vegetables which was ok with me but did not really add value.

Check it out let me know your thoughts!

If the GD aint clogged, the drain line is below the GD outlet.

@Justin Flowers hey, I love Corpus.

As @Cindy Harney mentioned certain retail outlets will plug in almost anywhere.