It also gets you free parking at my office, which is across the street from the Pepsi Center here in Denver.

Since finding bigger pockets the idea of owning a collision repair center vs investing in real estate has been less and less appealing.

Join community business associations - increase your center of influence - meet business people - run ads in their association newsletters.

It lacks access to a major freeway, job center (mall, school, hospital, or company).

There is some talk about Trinity Hospital being bought out and turned into a cancer center by one of the larger hospitals in the area.

@Brad Hammond A lot of private organizations, like Catholic Charities, Refugee Centers and Children Services, look for that type of rentals.

We did direct mail and had calls come into a call center which I worked in since I was 8 years old.

Different Universes.Now if you have a business and occupy say 50% of a building (strip center) you might can get an SBA loan.Small balance retail under 1.5  million mainly local banks after that and rates tend to be higher around 5%.

When you have a mix of national and local tenants cap rate tends to go higher and highest tends to be all local tenants.A buy and hold developer tends to do more long term construction with higher quality roof, building,parking lot, selection of tenants and how they flow optimally for the center etc.

I'm stationed overseas and it was very easy to get the testing center here certified to do my online exam.