After I have that broad knowledge of everything, I plan on moving to single room renovations, then to 500-750 sq ft single story house renovations, then to two story and so on based on my level of confidence.

Anything we would say in a forum is broad generalities.

This of course is a broad generalization.

So you want to be very strategic, so using something broad like "I buy real estate in Georgia" [I know its cheesy but people like simple]. 

David that is such a broad question.Shopping centers vary by age.Generally everything recycles after so many years.For instance if a shopping center is 40 or 50 years old it is past it's life cycle.Generally at that point you tear it down and build new.If a shopping center is say 20 years old many will just reface the outside to make it look new and repaint and re-stripe the parking lots.This is all predicated on if the shopping center still has a viable location or has growth shifted and now the center is int he old part of town.If it's in the old part of town refacing might not make sense and instead you buy at a lower basis to rent to Big Lots,outlet stores,etc. for less money.Still a tenant that will rent from you but at a lower cost because the area has shifted.With shopping centers it's all about the corner and access from 2 points,red lights,traffic volume and flow,etc.Anchored shopping center versus unanchored,tenant mix with credit rated tenant and frachise concepts versus mom and pop operations.Just like with houses you can run into big repairs with older shopping centers.Don't pay attention to current leases as much going in as what is market rent now and any leases fixing to reset.Also need to know level of shopping center saturation in a 2 mile radius depending and could be tighter or bigger in size depending on rural,subrurban,or urban core,and population count and demographic.Hope it helps.

This is so far to the opposite end of the spectrum from what I invest in that I barely feel qualified to even respond, LOL.

You must be able to win either sooner or later given any reasonable spectrum of possible outcomes.

Would cost me more to get each a la carte from Spectrum. 

There can be a middle ground on the spectrum somewhere in between that works for both.

That's a pretty broad question.