Businesses go in www.bizbuysell.com which is the business portal sister company of LoopNet.A corporate store doing 169,000 a year in gross sales is extremely poor.Food and labor generally run 50% in the food business total and that's if you are doing good keeping inline.169,000 / 52 weeks in a year = 3,250 in sales a week / 7 = 464.29 a day.

That's extremely high for most areas in PHL...

In this area it's extremely rare to find a condo without an HOA's, unless the complex is wholly owned by one individual/company.

It is extremely difficult to get proficient in an area without having trustworthy "boots on the ground". 

I tend not to do well with extreme climates...but I also am willing to make sacrifices to better the chances of success in my dream to have a successful real estate business, if all goes well, I can live anywhere right? 

What that ignores is the fact that those extremes are one week out of the year and the rest of the year the weather is mild and lovely.

Now the chances of your blog getting seen is extremely difficult.

I should add that this house is on a great lot in an extremely desirable area, so much so, even if the short sale couldn't work investment-wise, I'd move in myself...Thank you in advance for reading and your advice.

Welcome Julie, I came extremely close to joining FB. 

.- Marketing tied into our website makes listing a property on our website extremely easy: upload photos, narrative, click "Publish for Rent" in Propertyware, it is up on our listings page on our website.- Accepting e-payments from tenants, direct deposits for owners, all within Propertyware.