The long term growth in property prices in the LA Long Beach metro is about 7.14% (1976 to 2016, Federal Reserve); so using the rule of 72, the price would or should double in 10 years.Also the 45% expense estimate is in some ways high as there are companies able to achieve 38 to 40% and rent would or should be expected to grow at at least 3% per year in LA even with rent controls to keep pace with inflation.It is sort of the nature of the LA market and some of the other markets where you essentially go long, as opposed markets like Atlanta or St.

At what pace?

I bought a 3 story building and trying to convert the top 2 floors to apartments and keep the 1st floor and basement retail.

The second retail buyer who saw the place offered €27,000 for it.

I have not made deals or coordinated with real estate agents yet, but doing my own analysis, estimating expenses and calculating possible cash returns based on the retail prize, looks like there's not a lot of good deals out there.

I was selling apartments before retail.

Local rents will drive what you can sell to an investor for or what you can owner finance for.How much work (read $$$) would it likely need if you wanted to rehab and sell retail?

Why would a retailer of building materials and home products be an objective party to an inspection?

Wanted to see if anyone could give me some lender/private money recommendations for build to suit ground up development for a couple national fast food/QSR retailers in the Seattle metro area.

They expect you to be able to sell one or two of their vacuums to your own friends of your family, whom they could not otherwise hope to reach as customers.So the gurus are feeding you a lot of hype about how to find deals when all they really expect is for you to tell an established flipper that your Aunt Martha's friend Juanita's neighbor Billy Ray just died and Billy Ray's sister told Juanita's hairdresser Marq that she just wants to get rid of Billy Ray's old house because he had a huge stash of transvestite porn in his basement that she really, REALLY doesn't want to go through and throw away to get the house ready for retail sale.What do you want to do in real estate?