Also, on a wall, where tiles are popping off.

Also look around for lower priced materials, Mom and pop stores locally owned places.

Is there some sort of advice any of you can give me to help my business plan "pop".

Anybody have any luck with some of these companies that are popping up charging a fee for negotiating short sales for investors?

(there are new homes popping up everywhere).I'm not going to look for anything that is run down or needs work on while I am living there (at least major work).

They are few and far between but 4 units and up every now and then they pop up.

Now others are popping up doing the same thing.

These are the only assets at risk if you are able to get a true commercial Non-Recourse loan without any personal guarantee and I believe that is the intent of the original poster, sheltering risk and liability of his personal assets.If you take out the loan personally and then put it into an LLC and have some credit issues popping up while you are putting it into the LLC, then there is a possibility that the creditors can unwind that transaction and get to the real estate property's equity to cover their debt to you.

Why, then, consult my attorney (for a fee) on an idea that popped into my head to make things more clear to tenants?

Increasing the rentsIncreasing the laundry incomeAdding a pop machineLowering the vacancy rateLowering the expensesConverting a storage area to an additional suiteUptrend marketMay all instantly increase the value / price of a commercial apartment building allowing a refinance or 2nd mortgage to pull cash out.Thats the power of commercial real estate!!!