I keep my food on shelving units in the basement, arranged by expiration date.

You say you have a "partner", so your partnership arrangement should cover who profits at what percentage, as well who takes losses and who supplies capital (funding) and labor; everything should be given some value.If you need funding from hard money or private lenders, thenn you will need to use a financing contingency.

Also finding a mentor would be a great thing to do since you are in the beginning stages a great mentor would be a good idea

Obviously I will need to arrange financing from investors, rough plans from engineers, architects, etc, but I don't even know where to begin.

All the decor design and staging credit goes to one of my partners, but we all put a lot of hard work into this.

The typical arrangement in Milwaukee is if you are offering laundry, putting in separate machines for each unit and each is plugged into the respective units gas/electricIf you only offer the hookups, not actual applicances, then you just make sure each tenant has the gas/electric accessible and once they buy something make sure they are hooking up to the right one.Having washer to one unit and dryer to the other is not equitable as you noted.

This isn't an ooh and ahh over the staged  décor scene like a bad TV show.

And, if he wanted me to sign that option he could not leave any way for himself to profit from this arrangement especially in the event he collected earnest money from a potential buyer and they did not perform that those monies must be returned to me.

I've arranged to meet with her with the hopes of figuring out more about her branch, how her team is ran and what a possible position with her team or another one would look like after I get my license.

Maybe you could just stage the old breakfast area as a little sitting area with a couple of fluffy chairs and a small end table.