Located in booming San Antonio, TX area near Shopping Malls, Theme Park, Restaurants, Medical Center, plenty of stores in great neighborhood.

My reasoning was that it would be a safe place to store it until i could get it into real estate. 

So if someone sues you for your Ebay store they can now take your real estate...doesn't sound good to me.

Are you prepared to take him/her to the tile store, paint store, carpet store, countertops warehouse, plumbing fixture store, etc.? 

I figure if the big corporations are investing millions of dollars in buying land and construction of new retail stores they vet out the area way more than any of us can.

I grew up in Altamonte Springs ('87-04)  and saw it go from a rural town to what it is today, sort of a haphazard mix of nice residential, not so nice residential, run down commercial with pockets of freshly built/rehabbed commercial, low income apartments-turned condos before the crash-turned foreclosure havens that are barely recovering.... 

Hello Everyone,My name is Klubo (Clue-bow). Originally from Minnesota by way of Arizona. I hail from the mortgage industry (MLO) and have been interested in Real Estate for a long time. My interests are Wholesaling an...

They have the option of reserving the additional night(s) to make this much more comfortable for them so they don’t need to deal with storing their bags somewhere, finding showers etc. but they decide to save a few bucks and roll the dice.  

As an exceptional newbie (fresh out the womb), this thread made me happy.

First place to look is the library of books for sale in the Bigger Pockets store.