Purchase price: $95,000 Cash invested: $65,000 Small two-family, business zone, residential property in most convenient location near two strip malls, restaurants and banks.

Demographic is shifting with a lot of young families ending up there; bike paths going in, breweries galore, more and more good restaurants opening, etc. plus Boulder is only 15-20min away.

it is simply awesome for fixing doors that don't shut correct or need a little taken off of. 

Where would you find an interested party for a restaurant or would you open a franchise yourself?

Properties in the area were being converted from duplexes to half-million single families, and this property was one block over from a popular restaurant in town.

Funny, it seems the landscaper occasionally forget to add the sales tax as most of his customers pay cash, so I'll get monthly mowing bills of $108.25 including the tax and a few months in between for $100.00 when they forgot to add it.My friend who bought the 32 unit apartment grew up in the restaurant business that his dad was in for a while.

How do you explain it to them gently as to not scared them off or have the conversation shut down?

So find the brokers ask them what their favorite restaurant is and offer to buy them lunch and have you POF with you..

You see, the utility companies won't shut off utilities in the LL's name if they know a tenant is living there, although they WILL shut them off if the tenant requests it. 

Abandonment often isn’t clearly defined but can be inferred by certain things like neighbors witnessing the tenant moving all of their belongings out of the property, the property being completely vacant, utilities being shut off, etc.