Commercial tenants can be credit rated tenants with corporate guarantees or the mom and pop type.The mom and pop type carry usually the most risk as a start up.Franchised stores such as Quizno's or a Subway generally there is less failure as the corporations makes sure the operator meets liquidity and certain training requirements.What usually kills mom and pop type businesses is poor planning and making the same mistakes over and over again.This is where a franchise is strong in that with their franchise fees the operator gets national and sometimes local marketing.They also get tried and true processes and systems to follow which greatly reduce them screwing up.With a mom and pop you are going with an unproven startup which if fails has very little to no assets to go after.Sometimes a mom and pop will have multiple locations and be more credible with assets and experience that are less risky tenants.When taking on a retail tenant that is unknown or not well known ask questions about how they will bring in business and their marketing plans.Many start ups believe you open up and people will find you and the business will come flooding in.This is absolutely untrue.I remember Papa Johns pizza back when I was working as a stockboy at Wal-mart as a teenager.

Found another cheaper floor paint at Walmart last night. 14 bucks a gallon.

I have NO money to put down.My credit is a mess.I don't have a fax machineI don't have a phone/cell phoneI don't even have a jobI tried to do lease options with no money down and both of my offers where rejected....Am I missing something or should I just get a application and apply for work at Walmart.

I am retired so it is either rental income or cashier at Walmart-and I would not know how to operate their registers.

Walmart, Target, or Nordstrom.  

There were major layoffs announced this year at Macy's, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, DuPont, Seagate, Cisco, Intel, and Wal-Mart.

I can't be the only one that thinks that this Economic Stimulus Plan is not a good idea.The US Treasury is going to go into more debt, so that people can buy more crap at Wal-Mart?

They're like anti-WalMarts.

Walmart is 15 miles away, takes us 20 minutes to get there.  

People say it's because it's a Walmart in roseland.....I drive through roseland a lot and it still looks the same as it did when I went I was in high school a few years ago.