I think the best use for a resource such as this as a first stage vetting tool.

I have commercial clients that buy different types from value add to fully performing.Even fully performing there could be other value like it comes with a commercial parcel for putting a strip center on or the occupancy rents per sq ft are half of going market.You can do well with commercial though it takes more cash.

I thought the mean center was Washington DC. 

Rehab would be high enough quality that no cap x would be needed for years, and I would only buy in good areas, close to town center in communities that had dire need of this type of low income housing.

I am 40 with 4 kids from 19 to 1, so I am not in the house hacking stage of my life.

The landlord who owns the strip center will likely require Cold Stone corporate to stay on the lease because all their stores are backing as security versus a new operator entering the food business as a franchisee.Corporate is just trying to dump one of their dog stores with low sales and a high lease rent rate  from what I can see.

Later, I came to find out that the seller's husband had recently died, and the seller had stage four cancer. 

From...You can also use a paid tax record retrieval system called CRS for building mail lists, etc.http://crsdata.com/main/You may also want to go to the local REIA meetings. 2nd Thursday each month at the Executive Development Center on Military Cutoff Rd.

Talking with associates of Bigger Pockets we came to find out our goals were centered more around markets that Cashflow and not so much around markets that Appreciate.

Our plan was to move a new tenant in after working through the personal property of the estate.Now that we are ready for the next stage (moving in a new tenant), the current board has taken the position that they will not honor the information provided by the previous board president and will instead defer to the declaration.