Out here in CA I'm always interested in seeing the cost differential between our vertically integrated developer clients, and a retail build-out developer clients.

These things hold their value amazingly well.If I had to guess, if you bought it for 40k and only used 9 or 10 times, the hours on the machine would be so low you could probably resell it for 35k or better (given that their retail value would go up over three years so the discount from say 48k to 40k might even mean you break even)..

Most of them are not specialists in the way that youre thinking - they're retail employees with baseline knowledge of the products in that area.

Hi Scott,@Stephen DiJulius can provide you with great insight on the Ft Wayne market. 

LL Flooring, formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, is closing all 430 of its retail stores after failing to secure a buyer during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.

Purchase price: $500,000 Cash invested: $70,000 Sale price: $725,000 Creative financing purchase, fix/flip with retail sale.

It should retail for $140k.

.- McGowin Park developed a huge retail space in 2015 which consists of: 199,500- square-foot retail shopping center containing a future expansion area, five restaurant "pads" and 4.5 acres of outparcel development, and the west development consists of a 148,000-square-foot anchor store with an associated gas station, an 89,600-square-foot shopping center and 7.41 acres of outparcel area.

city / state reversed the law that made all drugs legal that was a bone head move .. and they finally figured that one out.. the next one they need to reverse is that any theft under 900.00 basically is just a ticket and not enforced thats also led to the rampant theft that has closed down numerous business's . 

As a rule, most areas will not cash flow if you're paying retail for the property.