I've owned several businesses in my life...from an ice cream shop, to a flooring company, to a private gym.

@Erez Zada I would recommend joining these groups:Coin is holding in person pod meetings- https://www.facebook.com/group...Coree - https://www.centralohioreia.co...Cream facebook group is great way to network with local investors - https://www.facebook.com/group...

Granted these are out-parcels at an anchor retailer so they are the cream of the crop so make sure you take that into account with your parcel but to give you an idea, the payoff of 2.5 years for what I'm seeing as maybe $100K in upfront costs?

Banks that have gone dark QSR's, Pizza huts, anything that's on an outparcel and can get converted to the use I'm looking for (mostly urgent cares) is still considered the cream of the crop.  

I don’t give one whit about Disney, but it doesn’t take a genius to see that companies that are dipping into politics and social justice are summarily getting creamed.  

Go to McDonalds--bring an ink pen.Buy a small coffee--sugar and cream as you like.Grab a handful of napkins.Start sipping the coffee, and writing ideas that come to you on the napkins.Take a break.Hand write on lined paper (or put into an email) the points from the napkins, with filler sentences about each one.Maybe include a link if you think it helps.Then when you've made it financially--you can say you wrote your business plan on a napkin.Good Luck!

He also wanted to do a whole bunch of extra work like tearing up the entire ground floor (cream colored tile) because it is dated and replace it with the trendy wood look laminate for another 5k.

Your market may be different but the STR market as a whole is experienced some saturation and the cream rises to the top. 

Now imagine scooting out of the bed half asleep in the middle of the night to go to use the facilities... and apply cortisone cream to the back of your thighs (true story).

I hired a young couple to live with her, cook, clean make sure she takes meds, walk her to ballroom dance club wed and fri, to the chicken beach to swim, to the little home made ice cream shop ... all good until covid.