If the Pizza Shop is leased and paying rent, I see no reason to convert. 

I can tell you the biggest thing is as long as you run your numbers tight and have good contractors you can be pretty successful at it.

We pride ourselves in keeping the forums positive, helpful, and focused on real estate (please, no politics, religion, etc.).

How do you get into a 20-40 deal with no money?

They did it without a forum to ask questions, no podcasts to listen to, no formulas and calculators.

I intend to qualify as a REP as I have no W2 income and handling the purchasing and managing of my investment is technically my job now (i do have a handyman as I do not live in the state where my property is, I do all things related to the property other than on site repairs). 

So what you offer, no longer matters.On the listing side, there's everyone out there from very cheap, to very expensive.

We pride ourselves in keeping the forums positive, helpful, and focused on real estate (please, no politics, religion, etc.).

If you have no experience building or developing, hiring a GC is a toss up.

If all of the answers to these questions are no, you need to reset what you are doing before you lose a bunch of money.1.