You may thing you're buying a vacant lot, but it has $100,000 worth of junk to haul off, or that faded letter on the window when you get up close and personal says "dry cleaner". 

Smaller facilities have smaller operating budgets so any one bigger repair or required maintenance item can blow your annual budget.

Now full disclosure, I am only a few months into my relationship with these providers so it could all blow up in my face, but ultimately I wanted to take action and for me this was the safest way to do that and I also figured the learning along the way might be worth giving up some larger returns. 

You would pull off the sheetrock, pull the insulation, dry everything out, treat the studs with a mold killer, then put it all back together.

You can earn honorable discounts and fees overtime by establishing mutually beneficial partnerships with one lender or broker but squeezing them dry for a lot of hard work and not equal pay isn't something I recommend making a strategy

That way you are incentivized to pay him off rather quickly but have some options if either the property or financing market blow up in the meantime.

Best case, they get bailed out by market appreciation before the property bleeds them dry.

Pretty cut and dry process.

And you're betting on a ceiling, and hope you're wrong in the direction that it blows through it. 

You want me to blow sunshine or tell you what you need to hear.