A few things first: This is my first post about my first (only) commercial property with regards to our very first perspective tenant.

Hint its not the list price.Get your permits early, if you need to pull one it might take you a while to walk thru the process.Good luck, hey if I can help from the perspective of a newbie who went thru the first one, maybe I can help you avoid a couple of our mistakes.

@Jeremy HartJeremy, since you're a broker in the NRV, I'd really like to get your perspective on the area regarding investment potential.

Per the rent ordinance the following are exempt (copied from https://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol/ so tenant's perspective):"San Francisco’s rent control law covers most rental property in San Francisco.

@William Rose approaching this from the perspective of a buyer's agent probably isn't the best way to go about it. 

In my area, there are few apartments comparable in size to even the smallest SFHs, but if you look at it from a square foot perspective, around here apartments tend to rent for about $1/sf, while SFH tends to rent for $.75-$1.00/sf.

I guess I will run the numbers again with a worst case scenario.I'd say if you find a thread that's an oldie but a goodie, that there is usually little to no harm done to put a fresh post in there to revive it back to the top of the forums.Having said that, you do have to realize that dollar amounts might differ drastically with a large time having elapsed since the dollar amounts were originally posted.As to plumbing unable to hold air pressure, that could be attributed to a wide variety of things, from an open faucet to all copper being stripped from the plumbing.

Is there something out there for fresh starting businesses trying to establish business credit

What is the perspective in the market at this point?

That was helpful to get some perspectives.