Back when I was brokering commercial real estate 100 years ago I had a deal on a small office building fall through when during the walk thru just prior to closing the buyer insisted on checking the candy vending machine and verbally to;d us and sent us a follow up letter informing us that he wasn’t going to close because the Baby Ruth’s in the candy machine were stale.  

Anything that is almost guaranteed to be used daily in your rentals (i.e. couches, bed, chairs), I'd try to invest in as much quality as you can for those specific items.Some store sites will let you filter for "contract grade" or "commercial grade" items - these are the sorts of furnishing that get put into higher-use commercial applications such as hotel lobbies, apartment building amenity spaces, etc. 

I found commercial building on LoopNet and want to explore buying it. 

With investment and commercial financing most of the time broker and lenders can work and are familiar with all 50 states!

My other options appear to be limited and would most likely renovate, sell at ARV , pay cap gains and then reinvest the proceeds into hard money deals or commercial RE… Thanks again guys ….

I have a friend who is under contract on a commercial property and him and I were discussing his 1031 situation and I thought I would get an opinion from the experts in this forum. 

Would help if DSCR is >1.25x, a credit >760 and if willing to do a 5/5/5/5/5 prepay instead of 5/4/3/2/1 So basically any 50%LTV/DSCR 1.25 is sufficient to get the best rate.Don’t you think with the rate this good , all MF syndication that near the 5 year balloon repayment from commercial loan , could just switch to 30 year fixed-rate HML loan ?

Hai,Bigger pockets has lots on lending options for commercial and multifamily space.

I was told that on a NNN lease, brokers should take a commission of X% of base rent (price per SF x SF) - not total rent (which includes NNN). That makes sense to me as NNN is just expenses that are passed onto the te...

Hi Carlo, I have been originating private money and commercial notes for close to 10 years.