I would also want to know the landlords age of the roof, type of exterior and street lighting, any website promoting the center, what type of sign at the road and if you get a slot for visibility, what type of sign you can put on the building itself above your space, age of the parking lot, etc.

I bought a stainless steel cart on wheels from Ikea that tenants can have in the kitchen,  thereby leaving literally room for only one person to be in there,  or they can move it to the living area where at least it is still storage.  

Costs are very high with steel tariffs and getting overbuilt but for 2-3k you can get a feasibility study

Then a steel stud wall, with a foam isolation gasket under the floor track, barneyboard and PVC trim.That's how we insulate an interior basement wall in rainsoaked Western PA with readily available materials that give us the best possible chance of not having the finished basement turn into a mold factory on us over the long haul.

Go mid range, stainless steel etc, labor will be at least half of your reno and you'd waste it on cheap materials.Step 3 have professional pictures taken.

If we ever have bath problems we are taking the bath out and installing a basic steel model.

Some systems may not have a proper or common account or chart of accounts that applies to RE, but knowing the applications of such accounts, you can still "slot" an item to effect the proper accounting even if that account name might be different.......hope that makes sense.

I would by all means buy in SR a 4 plex .reasons are1. 3.5% fha owner occ... nice to get into a CA rental for 3.5% down2. you can rinse repeat annually until you have used up your 4 mortgage slots. there by owning 16 doors in Sonoma county all with 3.5% down on each.. does not get much better than that for N.

If power company would allow the people to raise their homes, FEMA requires that the piers be steel and concrete, no wooden stilts. 

In my area I would pay about $600 for a 6' cedar with steel post.