For Starbucks backed by 20,000 plus stores  you generally get the full value of any tenant improvements you spend as the owner.What some owners do with local tenants is they pay the leasing brokers ( over time ) what they are owed and have language that if the tenant defaults and vacates then the remaining percentage of leasing commissions is not due.The leasing brokers want all the money upfront so it is a negotiation as to how to structure an agreement with payment.Now the PM company that does ongoing care for the property the lease up is a separate component from the management fee.

I'm curious where others are storing their savings/capital (i.e., down payments, etc.) given the low interest rate environment, negative yields in sovereign debt markets, and US stock market at all time highs - in lots of ways the markets seem discombobulated and signalling different things.

Paint shop stores might be a good lead.

Post flyers on local bulletin boards at colleges, stores, library, etc.  

You'll feel like a kid in a candy store once you start searching the site for how to find motivated seller leads....you'll never run out of content trust me lol.

The big box stores can create kitchen cabinet plans too but they will not be design-based - it would just be what would fit.  

I am in the bagel business by trade and have owned and operated my own retail store for 6 years.

They give the tenants a choice of either buying from the machine or buying from a regular store while giving the landlord a little extra income.I also like the idea of a survey. 

@Sydney Cash I would recommend anything and everything by Robert Kiyosaki, Most of the BP books you can find in the Book store.

Relatively recession proof areas such as grocery stores or some tech startups.Btw..