I have explored a variety of online and physical side hustles, but now it's time to transition to brick-and-mortar as I build towards my dream of creating my own private equity firm.I am officially closing soon on the acquisition of an absentee gas station and laundromat business.

@Dominique OsbornMaybe you know her and maybe you don't.Well now you do.She is the chassis, the wheels, the engine of our vehicle.I'm just the body (With a tonne of dents hehe)We started the company side by side in a crappy little shared office while eating table spoons of peanut butter for breakfast and drinking $1 gas station coffees just to survive.And hear we are today.A 2 time Inc 5000 company.Then, of course, there are other folks that I'm grateful for that look after our marketing, sales, acquisitions, rehabs, maintenance and so forth.

Hey Bruce, i'm looking in the college station texas area. 

I'd try to steer you toward secondary markets in Texas (think Belton/Temple, Waco, Bryan/College Station, San Marcos, New Braunfels, etc.) over going to cheap markets in the Midwest.

But anyways, literally 8 months ago, I had the physical fitness working for me while stationed out in the desert, and crushing the physical fitness tests.

I purchased a 7 unit directly across the parking lot of the EAST CLEV train station.

Move back the states and stationed in Nashville.

Is it zoned for things such as a filling station, or a strip Mall, or medical dental, or a church.

Area has mix of older retail strips, motels, banks, gas stations, some QSR, a few independent restaurants, services (barber shops, etc.), and retail, warehouses, factories, and a business incubator for entrepreneurs. 

The commercial lot is also vacant, on a commercial strip (mom n pop retail, banks, gas stations, etc.) 2 lots down from a moderately busy intersection in a redevelopment zone.