We also caught a lot of lucky breaks along the way like: a very friendly banker, access to private loans from partners and family, baby booms looking to move out of state and off load property at cost.

I'm an investor in Columbus Ohio and looking in going to a local bank to do this seeing how im assuming most commercial banks will have high rates.

@Andrew Harwell FEMA has a flood map that is accessible to the public and so do most city websites.

Landlord shall provide a key to the Tenant for the Premises and Landlord shall keep a duplicate key for access.

I am not a commercial guy. i would guess 40-60% would be the range for multi family.

I'm looking to find some ideas for utilizing about 6000SF of commercial land on a busy commercial street in Portland (near the airport).

I am a commercial real estate agent in Los Angeles, CA & am working with a few off-market motivated sellers.

@Ryan Edwards with more than 10 properties, you should qualify for a commercial policy.  

Do you have interest in purchasing larger assets like apartments, commercial strip centers, etc? 

My goal as an agent is to work in real estate, get involved in the game, help others,  but to ultimately have investment properties of my own as well, plus you have access to the MLS and have a good network surrounding you.Are there complications of being a realtor to the point where its hard to acquire your own investment properties?