I know someone who builds shopping malls.

I specialize in strip shopping center management and handle everything from rent collection, enforce lease rules, grounds maintenance to CAM recons, estoppels, etc., etc.

@Stephen Robertson I'd suggest shopping it in the FSBO section on Craigslist... if you have a little money maybe you could also try becoming a plus/pro member here on BiggerPockets and then you can shop for both in the marketplace.

One way to do this is to find areas that are already super artist communities where the fancy coffee houses have moved in along with higher end shops.

That is a bad combo as tenants have no choice but to do business (shop & dine) in these areas which typically have limited options for anything they want or need to do.  

How do you shop for a good lender without taking all the dings on your credit report and thus decreasing your score and getting higher interest rates because of it.

Based on what I've learned on the podcast and here on BP, I've been shopping around for loans. 

For example "Movement mortgage" and "Homebridge"  Does everyone "shop around" for HELOC?   

This is at a auto shop that I own, my plan is to clean the shop up and rent out the shot.

This would likely enable her to secure the property she's always worked towards, enjoy it and develop it NOW and rapidly proceed to sell her primary residence (valued at $500k++) instead of liquidating her more difficult income producing commercial property, then shopping, then selling her primary residence..I recognize there are MANY alternatives, including contingent offers on a new potential primary and/or leasing back her current residence as a contingency of a sale.