Try to go to Home Depot and buy supplies to put up a fence or the local appliance store for appliances.   

Then you'd fill them out with a tenant, get a signature and store a copy with a reminder for renewal or other action items.2) Some sort of DB that you could have inventory of your bldgs/units. 

I haven't done much property evaluation since I bought my place but I plan to start doing so soon.The other thing is to go to your local hardware store and look at the price of the individual goods. 

Are there experienced owners of store and lock facilities on BiggerPockets that could help my wife and I understand what is a good deal?

The transaction that introduces the two should be 1. at arm's length, 2. significant in scope, amounts and risk and 3. successfully completed to the end.Yes, you could do something knowing that you will or would likely do future business and you can do some transaction that introduces each party.As to a significance of the transaction, that would not mean buying a pack of gum at the drug store.

Three miles away they are paying $270 per foot for a leased up retail center with national chain anchor stores.

You may need to clean the place out after an eviction and store the items for the statutory period, you might find that from a landlord association, but certainly from an attorney.Another issue is to check and see if Cali has any disclosure requirements concerning tramatic events in your property, we have them here, and you'll need to disclose that someone died in the unit.

Also, there are some perks with being a member as well (discounts at certain stores).

Banks here, a few, having travel agencies, insurance, trust account/companies and stock brokerages, and many are in commercial leasing of bank owned properties (bank building having other offices or stores in the same building).Another matter, we are not having any issues with paying off notes held by an LLC, one was refied in April. :)

If this doesn’t work we will buy a used stackable at discount appliance stores.