In their early days, authors and book retailers complained that Amazon used loss leaders, selling books at a loss to attract traffic to the website, which would sometimes result in sales across other verticals.

@Joshua McMillen It's clear from your post whether you're trying to solicit ideas as to how to invest or whether you're purely talking about the mindset (aka law of attraction).

You could get design & pricing tips there.Usually for South Florida not far from the ocean, a bedroom will rent for $50-$80/night and higher on weekends or special event.

Which one do you think will attract agents and buyers?

Can anyone recommend or chat about how to attract interest and prepare the property for do it yourself reconversion?  

I am looking for something that is or I can turn into a nicer units and attract better tenants.  

The issue I see with this is the old housing does not really work with modern living, so such a renovation allows for an older house to be reinvented to better match modern needs.With that being said, current new duplex design should be solving alot of these issues. 

My wife has an amazing eye in regards to interior design (Her day job). 

REI today attracts a lot of people who really believe they can reduce all the business's problems and challenges to equations and algorithms.

Been an owner for 4-5 years, learned quite a few things already, among which is that a commercial kitchen is not something to be made or modified lightly - it has to be properly designed and properly made in order to function well.So I have this retail store of about 1100 sqft that someone wants to take for a small coffee shop with the ability to bake.My question is where do I start searching for someone to design/compute small walk-in cooler, grease trap, vent-a-hood, stove and HVAC on top of that so all this could become useable without anyone getting burned.From my past experience I have local mexican crews who can do any and all of the listed things and they'd do them relatively well except they won;t ever be designed to actually work well together.On the other end of the spectrum I've worked with american general contractors and they tend to cost 2-3 times the Mexican crews and, at least in my case, ended up delivering about same end result (in all fairness it was only kitchen remodeling, not design from ground up; but statement stands valid and I was able to later do almost the same at literally third of the cost).Your expertise is appreciated.