No different than an office visit you pay for at a doctors office, our expertise and education in the trades is a value to most sensible investors.If basic principles are applied during pre-construction, 9 times out of 10 everyone will walk away feeling good and most importantly with profits earned.

Established companies leverage public databases to generate lists that blanket a whole state - because if you're going to keep an office full of people busy you have to send a crapton of mail (see above). 

In addition, the absolute hottest trend in housing is modern houses.

I've been happy with the training I've received and the convenience of several offices throughout the Valley. 

I'm not getting much help from loan officers - even ones that have been in the business for 30+ years seem to know very little about doing this.  

Good idea I will talk to the land development office and check requirements to build on the property.

At one point they were talking cross collaterialization until the loan officer drove by the property and then he said the bank was good with what I had and they wouldn't require a lien on another property.

Soon, I plan to be taking on my first commercial property to manage (tenant placement, rent collection, repairs, turnovers, etc).Since the person I am taking over for (the building's original owner, now 69 yrs-old) is a little antiquated and has no real systems in place, I'm wondering: what are some quick wins that would update and modernize how the property gets managed?

Smaller banks are more personable (at leas what I found after venturing out) and you can get to know who the loan officers are so when you have questions they don't mind helping you.Recently, I was searching for a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) and went to a smaller local bank that just happen to have a presence in other cities, nothing like Chase, WF, or BofA but nonetheless they have a small presence.

I demand to speak with their manager, “He is out of the office”, “what about their manager?”