I mean, I can keep asking questions and perhaps it'd be a good learning experience but at the end of the day we need to know what we don't know - meaning, make sure that what you take on is something that is a nice, safe, stretch learning experience. 

Odds are those all go up.....Expense go up and rent goes down is the making of a bad investment for you.At best I would drop it and require them to have professional yard care be paid for by them..... even that would be a stretch unless my rent is higher than marketOpening the box of letting tenants dictate the rent is a bad precedent to start.....I might do this...1 year lease at $2800........ 2 year lease at $2700....

@Brandon RibeiroI’m not sure this sounds like a deal you should stretch yourself for.

Here’s the catch: The brother would be stretching to make the rent that I’m currently getting on some of the other properties I own in the neighborhood and, apparently, his credit isn’t great.

Our spaces have leased up quickly and easily via word-of-mouth/social media/networking to date, but they’ve also been smaller, less expensive, rehabbed spaces and very comparable to everything else on our few block long stretch of commercial storefronts.

You will come out of it wil plenty of expertise in the details of renovating 100-year-old properties, but this is NOT passive investing by any stretch of the imagination, even if you somehow do manage to turn this place into a profitable investment while relying on the tender mercies of hired help. 

A lot of people can get a massive mortgage for the house with the picket fence but it doesn't mean they can really afford it or are not stretching themselves too thin. 

That actually might be a stretch or it might be true.

That seems like quite a stretch. 

I have 20 properties that could be considered "comps" by some stretch of the imagination.