Self storage and parking are similiar, love the idea, but I am not a fan of retail business.    

In your experience, do you think the restaurant industry can be a good investment or would your stick with retail/office or multi family? 

Hopefully rents increase on pace with HOA increases.

In addition to the obvious cost savings on products and services, use of Purchasing Platform drastically reduces the number of trips your manager has to make to retail stores (time spent not managing your property), eliminates the need for expense classification and receipt transcription while also providing valuable oversight to the owner with workflow approval.

Like Account Closed, great for selling a place to retail buyers, but the markups the window guys stick you for are incredible.

It's one thing to come to an agreement with a retail buyer, but getting from contract to close is quite a process. 

Try to connect with the tenant rep retail brokers.

Purchase price: $185,000 Cash invested: $100,000 Three unit rental property (two apartments, one retail) on Main Street Ellicott City.

I am in commercial retail so not SFR.With SFR are you talking building yourself new as a developer or are you talking about buying new construction to hold as a rental?

The second property is a 54 unit with some vacant retail space on the ground floor The 54 units are made up of studios and one bedrooms.