Caddy, bartend, or become a member if you can, even a fitness member at the least expensive level usually can get you on the course for a few rounds a year and give you access to the clubhouse/restaurant/bar.   

You could call your brother to do the inspection even if he was a server in a restaurant as long as you trusted him as an adviser.

I audited many different types of companies, banks, hospitals, a restaurant group, a timber management organization, manufacturers, etc.

We currently have a 30 unit 1/1 in a growing bedroom community in the Little Rock Metro area that needs rehabbing $235,000, and a 4.4 acre tract of commercial property with a turn key restaurant on 1 of the acres located on US Interstate 30 in another bedroom community south of Little Rock, $835,000.

If, on the other hand, a newer, bigger competitor in the neighborhood might portend the tenant's slow demise and eagerness to complete their original term.Another way of gaining insight is to go to the restaurant and speak to the manager.

Both groups have traditions of a large number of folks having dinner at a nearby restaurant before the meeting.

So you could do retail/restaurant or office space on the ground floor and residential above.

The amount of TI needed by Starbucks will be determined by a new build ground up versus a reposition of an existing vacant single tenant building.If past use was restaurant and or coffee shop type then not as much build out versus a medical tenant previously.

The second was a restaurant I owned with another friend and once it opened even though she was to be the floor manager and I was to be the silent partner she went home the day after the grand opening and never went back.

Pittsfield (one of our favorite cities as a service town to the berkshires with good restaurants and infrastructure from the GE days) just opened a co-working space, as did North Adams and others "japanification of america"--quality of middle-class corporate life is eroding just as cities are becoming wealthier, leading to longer 1.5-2 hr commutes as standardf--as a result, these areas are becoming more competitive.