It's like walking up to a 727's cockpit and saying "Ho do you fly this" and the pilot goes into the weeds of the 144,000 knobs, dials and details when all one was looking for is "you push the throttle here, steer here, pull back and ZOOOmmmmm away we go" lol. 

The tenants were given appropriate offsets - such as free fitouts and rent free periods, sometimes 12 months or more.

He's in the cockpit of a small airplane in his avatar.

Right now they are waiving the franchise fee of $25k, they are installing ovens in new locations free of charge, and if I already own the building that was recently rehabbed, the cost to fit-out will be relatively small.Rather than start a business from the ground up and create and build everything from scratch, I like the idea of buying into an already successful business, they're doing something right!

In fact, start with your local college and learn the basics before you pay to get into a cockpit.- Flying is very local. 

Totally depends on whether you are doing the fit out for a particular tenant, is it office, restaurant, salon, grocery?

Also I have a wife and 2 kids and living in a small unit doesn't really fit out situation.

In this situation, who does the fit out and what determines who does it? 

In an airplane, there are the General Partners in the cockpit who fly the airplane (find deal, negotiate, find investors, line up lending, manage the 3rd party property management, operate the investment).

Not until I found myself in a cockpit of a 1969 Piper Cherokee 140 with my flight instructor coming down from a cross wind landing when I saw a windsock and had a bright idea.