I also have plans to connect with the local community so that I can offer guests discounts to local independent shops and restaurants etc. which will be beneficial for all. 

The “check-up” can also serve as a chance to build rapport with your guests by delivering a small gift basket and offering tips or recommendations for activities, restaurants, and attractions.

Any ideas or feedback would be appreciated.Maybe park a "Taco Truck" (Roach Coach) there and put one of your relatives (who needs a job) in it as an employee/cook.Bingo--instant restaurant, and a free car wash with every 15 burritos purchased.Tasty burritos draw car wash customers, and car wash customers can buy a burrito.

Now, with a corner residential lot under contract in a mixed-use corridor zone in Austin, Tx, I seek guidance on where best to source my buyers for this smaller 7500+sqft lot which is zoned to accommodate up to 7 condo units, mixed-use, commercial, retail, restaurant, professional offices and even affordable housing.Is it best I get in front of commercial brokers who may have developer clients?

We thank her with restaurant gift certificates, she doesn't want to be paid.... just a neighborly thing.For another one of our duplexes, we have experienced the folly of hiring a neighborhood kid and the folly of paying one of the tenants to take care of it.

On another note, is South Side Restaurant still open in Slidell?

I also read that the HOA now has control of the restaurant, so there will be revenue from that.  

I got so sick of dealing with incompetent people, I looked in my network, found a woman who was cleaning restaurants (not the same, but will do), and asked her to quit her job, and work for us.

One is a popular national fast casual dine-in restaurant that has notified us that they will not be making rent payments and the other is a popular national quick service restaurant brand that has sent notice that they will only be paying 1/2 rent. 

Next door strip center has a big Indian grocery store, Indian take out, Verizon store, child care, Chinese restaurant, and Dunkin' Donuts. yes, approvals need variance because it's in office professional zone.