Osaka, while relatively cheaper, has massive competition.

If not, I would have to try to find a retail tenant. 

Are you flipping income product or selling retail to homeowners?

In my view, a wholesaler is someone who has little desire to deal with retail buyers.

In California selling an LLC is a massive pain and adds an additional $800 cost. 

Within those structures I'd like to build with community in mind - E.G - purchase older 6 story facility a block away from downtown, repurpose to meet energy spec, convert to vertical farm OR mixed use property for 2 floors of condos/2 floors coworking spaces/2 floors retail and attract quality small business tenants to enhance neighborhood.

Inflation as a byproduct of monetary policy in general doesn't care where the products come from, it will affect them just the same when it comes to your wallet.Add in the massive rise in energy costs, which invariably work their way into the delivery and sale of products both foreign and domestic, and you have more expensive products across the board.

That is a retail price you would hope to get on the back end when you sell. $700 ask price for 24 doors is just over $29k per door (too high for the rents).

Ditto for it being agent owned..my buyers want nothing to do with that.Now Renae, I went the same route i.e..cards, bandit signs, driving the neighborhoods and tracking down sellers(MASSIVE waste of time-fuggehdabout it)etc...and found them to be inefficient or if they produced the occasional seller, they weren't motivated enough..While I don't know your financial situation, there are 800 #'s and ways to do direct mail that are fairly inexpensive...you'll just have to do some googling....you can get a voice mail for $10/mth and get good lists for under $100 as well as being able to mail direct from your computer....if these mehods are still out of your price range, then find a better paying job(I don't mean to sound so brusque) so you can afford to do direct mail...

It is a failure in the sense that it will not return this broken economy to "normal" as so many are hoping.After two full decades of credit expansion, having finally reached the point where debt is abhorrent, the new reality will be a more NORMALIZED credit market, not a return to the grossly abnormal market many of us have come to view as typical.Think about it this way; it is not "normal" to be able to walk into virtually any retail store in the country and within 10 minutes be able to access $2,000 in credit by simply showing a drivers' license.