Some of the the best ways to find off market commercial and multifamily properties is to compile lists from city and county websites if available or through a paid service like List source, Reonomy and CoStar or you can use free resources like Loopnet, CREXI, Craigslist, tax database, brokers, property managers, title companies, environmental consultants, building inspection companies, appraisers, landscapers and other companies that service commercial and multifamily properties and driving for dollars.The real key is in how you approach the owners and then the follow up.

I hope to transition away from my career in environmental science for my passion in real estate!

A retired art teacher who is now a minister, employees at dept of natural resources, and public school nutritionist, philosophy grad students, credit union employees involved in financial literacy education, and a former property manager, an environmental lawyer.

Hey BP Community,It seems as if a lot of people really like to hear about short-term rental/ AirBnB stories, so I thought I would share a deal that has been “operational” for four months now…First, I live and work in the Washington, DC in Uncle Sam’s Environmental Protection Agency (full time), so the various projects I do in the real estate realm are part time (for now).

.· Build MORE housing, of all types The state must encourage building by drastically removing zoning restrictions, environmental hurdles and other barriers.· Create, creative financing solutions for building of affordable rentals and let each town come up with their own ways to encourage building of multi -families.· Raise Wages so renters can afford to pay for Housing· Cap assessments for multifamily housing at a low level to help keep taxes predictable and reasonable (Hartford chose to increase taxes 40-60% last year, resulting in large rent increases)· Cap electric rate increases (50% last year), Insurance rate increases (15% last year) Natural gas (40% increase this year), Cap interest rates on variable rate financing (most commercial loans have 5 year terms adjustments. 85% increase in two years)· Increase direct payments to qualified renters, to offset rising rents. 

This is great since we don't touch the utility costs, and puts the onus on the tenant, but also I've seen in advertising that you can charge the "same" rent as other buildings and people won't always consciously register the extra costs for utilities.

You also value your time and also are conscious about how vacancy/turnover affects you.

They are going to ask you things about the potential environmental impact of the usage and how you plan to mitigate this potential impact, why the usage is necessary, etc.The greater the risk, the greater the reward but make sure you have the ability to absorb that risk should/when it goes south.

A lot of significant details you will need to find out as well...like units count, utilities, does it require environmental study or not, or even How long will take you to get plans approve would be part of major factors on timeline.I hope this helps! 

Strong interest in green building and business as a means to improve society global environmental impact.