They can sometimes cost a few thousand, but the reports are substantive and go all the way from commercial comparables to traffic analysis.

It is always better, in my opinion, to set your rent slightly less than others to ensure you get as much traffic as possible. 

Other house is in mid-town, newly 'hot' area, so I see more opportunity for growth there...but I may be wrong...recession saw many houses here drop 50% or more, especially on the high end...Lastly, if you want to build be sure to check the SDC's for water, sewer, parks, traffic etc.

Oh... traffic is a non-issue! 

If I was guess I would say minimum of 100k to buy the equipment .. then you have staff and that is always an issue.she also has an ATM  but that has caused her to get broken into a few times.. but it does create revenue.and its a lot of work.. she also serves light food  breakfast sandwiches  lunch  sandwiches etc. you need commercial coolers in the back to store the gallons upon gallons of milk etc.I have seen out our way these do pretty good and that's the little mini drive through stands that are manned by one person and or two max.. all in a little trailer with drive lanes on both sides.. hitting the commuter traffic. you get permission to put one in a shopping center parking lot that kind of thing.  

A lot of commuter traffic to and from for work.

It depends on the box size, where it is at location wise and demographics, site lines, access with cross traffic, and if dark but current tenant still paying or totally vacant.Smaller box sizes usually have a long list of tenants waiting to go into the spaces in strong markets.

The commercial use should generate a minimal amount of traffic noise.

At one property I own that's high traffic (with a bar across the street) it's a shame because anything decent gets swiped and I know if I provide my tenants with a picnic table the bar patrons will sit on the table and cause late-night disturbances (heck, they've left empty bottles on my tenants' front steps). 

Needless to say, all the traffic, low as it was, was from this small town area.