Large Duplex up front, nice home in the back & being an Estate sale they wanted CASH.BUT because of the commercial zoning (already in place) conventional financing was not interested & commercial mortgage brokers were demanding 30% min down @ 11% with a 5 yr balloon.So if your intention is buy/renovate/sell your Exit Strategy may be restricted to cash buyers.Another case: Commercial zoning allowed a welding/repair shop to install a large propane tank on site.

I spoke with a motivated seller today looking to off-load their house in Oakland, CA on the 7500 block of Weld St - 2 beds, 1 bath.

See http://www.dailycamera.com/business-data/ci_24806206/boulder-broomfield-weld-commercial-deals-dec-30-2013 for Boulder County.

Bill Gulley Well when i think of container homes , i get a picture in my head of more customized kind, multiple container welded together, more like a hybrid, part container part normal architecture (concrete ).

I am so far into welding tho that I don't wanna to just leave it just like that.

Community colleges are a good location to learn a trade like masonry or welding or framing but big picture wise not so much.One thing to learn about contractors is that they are not all the same.

Let's say a guy operates a welding business out of his home and he has $10,000 in welding equipment in the garage.

Like a welder that got a welding certificate while in.

Insulators crack, insulator nails work lose,wires get chewed by critters and fray, connections are brittle, terminals almost welded shut, fuses can be hard to find that are properly sized for the electrical run and boxes and runs are usually ungrounded.

For example, we've granted two here recently; one for a microbrewery/restaurant that is dumping $1.3mil into an old building on Main St. and the other was for the expansion of a medical plastics welding business.