At the moment he has 3 of the 4 units rented (upholstery company, lawyer's office, and not sure what the other one is).

@Brad Swearingen Some towns have this info right on their website and some others you will have to call the town offices directly to get this info.

Social stability, economic stability, political stability, etc.

I have a commercial property with road frontage that's about 2,000 sq ft for food and beverage that needs about 100k worth of work and I have another small office that is paid off that needs about 20k to get finished. 

I have a commercial property with road frontage that's about 2,000 sq ft for food and beverage that needs about 100k worth of work and I have another small office that is paid off that needs about 20k to get finished.

If you want my full library, PM me.While the general theory is fairly universal, depending where the OP will be investing, many of the references above will be lacking detail applicable to his home market.I was being polite and pointing out that many things surrounding real estate transactions in Canada are quite different that in the U.S.A. ... as they would be for any country.This is a little different than doing your local research.

We also remodeled the office and laundry areas.

I would say 70% of our tenants here in Connecticut pay through our website and the other 30% either mail payment to our office or drop it off at our office in the rent slot. 

So basically I’ll be busy with my current job and unfortunately won’t be able to benefit from a broker’s front office, or training, or support network just yet (hopefully in a few years).  

You can obtain the owner's name and mailing address from doing an online search at the Property Appraiser's Office; if it's in the name of an LLC,  you can google that name and often times find the corporate listing.