I walked a couple of investors a few weeks ago when I started to try to penetrate the residential market, there are three issues that I encountered, 1) most of them don't know what they want, not even a floor plan with scope of work, which renders the bids from us contractors like comparing an orange, an apple and a rotten grape. 2) They want the best contractor with the cheapest price, the best quality and to be done yesterday.

I know i shouldn't rent to people i know, i know i shouldn't let one bad apple ruin the bunch etc etc.

This  10,000 sf building on 9 acres would seem over priced if we were comparing apples to apples.  

@Adam Widdicombe  just to set the record straight  I started turn key reviews to give the public a place to rate the operators so that if there were some bad apples like you talk about they could be found out.TK reviews is basically a public service site.. there is no money being taken other than tiny revenue to keep the site up and running.I could care less were people buy their homes.. but since TK is a thing and has been for 2 decades we might as well talk about it and take the mystery out of it.I am a fairly active new home builder doing about 20 million a year in new builds

You want to make sure the quotes that you are comparing are apples to apples- Credit Score (above 740 will give you the best rates)- Property type (single family?

Apples and Oranges.You are dealing with business tenants.If you want to do mom and pop small town commercial tenants to mix in with residential that is one thing.

recently hae been introduced to BP podcast and being in the construction trade...All I do is listen to BP while iPhone is inside my helmet. 

A woman recently said on Facebook that she wishes more realtors could find a US assistant instead.I'm going to take another leap and guess that when her post said "sent from a mobile device", that it was an iPhone, Android, or other modern smart phone that was made overseas.

Make sure you are looking apples to apples. 

Upsetting his apple cart will quite possible do the same to yours.