@Albert Gallucci as many have pointed out, in the commercial space of 100+ apartment buildings and offices, property classes have some pretty decent industry standards.We started applying these to 1-4 unit properties around 10 years ago, which you can verify on our blogs, because we saw too many newbie investors not properly taking into account things like, neighborhood status, tenant pool, property condition, etc.Unfortunately, there's no industry standard for this, but you can use some basic logic to think your way through your own Classifications.

The idea is to use this property as an office space, giving me the separation I need from home while providing a place for my assistant to work where I can be more hands-on with them.The business would pay rent for the property, which would cover its expenses.

I would like to start investing in real estate once I get situated down there.

Did you started working on it?

Highly recommend (I require) collecting first month's rent prior to handing over keys.

I just started to learn about buying rental properties in Japan also.

Starting all over from scratch... my gray hair is turning back black....LOL.   

I was asked to join a couple of real estate groups and this one fell in to my hands.

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

If things start getting tight, you can always switch to doing work for clients too in order to raise funds.