Learning the hotel business, management, operations, food and beverage, etc will help you understand what a current owner is doing poorly and what you can do better.

If food / fast food / drive thru - the brand needs to go dark and buy out of lease or file's BK - is there a replacement brand waiting in the wings.  

If Whole Foods decides to move in, then watch out.

When you do hang out its video games,  good conversation, I could imagine  some take out food, a few beers, maybe  a hit or two.

My food isnt 2-5 times more expensive. 

Most of the jobs are ag related however- we have a John Deere dealership, Dalton Ag which manufactures other ag products, Michael Foods which is a egg factory, Taygold cooperative, Precision- makes pulley's and idlers for things such as wind turbines, etc.

Food insecure, medicine insecure, transportation insecure.  

Let's chat sometime--I can at least point out some decent local "southern food" restaurants

I learned to cook because the foods I liked are expensive in restaurants.

Please keep in mind that this is an abbreviated story and in no way could ever represent the amount of adversity that I experienced through this process or the effort that was required.Looking back, I am amazed with power of real estate and have found a true passion, like nothing I ever experienced in my job and I wish anyone on a similar trajectory to push as hard as you can.