Wallace, what am I researching, I know its in a flood plane and the insurance will eat any positive cash flow.  

Those can be the best kind because someone else paid for the exiting build out, training employees and weeding through the duds, stabilizing and creating a history of sales over time you can track,etc.Those businesses have already created multi-generational customers from the grandfather,father,and son to eat there.Great business opportunity is generally where the owner is wanting to retire, has to relocate, health problems, partnership split, divorce causes division of assets, bankruptcy sale, etc.You want the business to throw off great cash flow on it's own and be established but get the discount because of external operator issues.

using rent credits for sellers concessions is ok Using it to decrease sales price for create a deposit down painter is not OK per Dodd Frank ,  it was creating a financing agreement which makes it difficult to evict the tenant versus having to foreclose  Think of using rent credits for down payments or decreasing sales prices as the same as a contract for deed,  and eating a registered mortgage loan originator to underwrite the buyer 

Nice to have for recommendations/ places to eat etc- but for booking it's pretty worthless 

If the property operates at a loss he eats all of it.

One at 8, then another at 9am etc) and you can get all your guys in there to place a bid on one day vs eating up your time over a week.

Unless I was 100% sure I did not lose the rent, I would eat the cost.  

If you use up all the return then inflation will eat at your capital and your 600k will be worth a lot less than today.

I agree with Carolina E., at my main job we do not end leases in November or December due to it being harder to get tenants in when it's cold.

I'm working towards my first flip and I'm trying to determine if an addition would eat my profit or be a good investment.