There's plenty of shopping areas including grocery stores (like walmart and Kroger) and places to eat no more than a 10 minute driving away.The rest of this is really just from Zillow.

I'm primarily looking to store and grow wealth, not necessarily yield income.

Agreed with above and with Jon about using tile at the entryway...Tile is great for a place to take off and store wet shoes when company comes.

I know some people use "sweep" accounts, where the deposit account (where the tenant can easily "see" the account number) is used as a temporary money store... only until the rent is pulled into an operating account (tenant doesn't see that account) by the property owner.

Call the small banks that you never heard of with just a couple of branches, and ask for the commercial lending department. 

They CAN possibly guide you to a website (such as the FDLE website or the local sheriff department's website) for you to research and determine what areas you might feel safest in.

I'm not familiar at all with Bakersfield zoning, but usually C-1 is Limited Commerical (grocery stores, barber shops, churches, etc...really anything up to malls).

Agree with J. on the HVAC, functional and no issues is good enough.I got alot of stuff at the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store, donated materials, often new stuff is there.

I contacted the National Department of Archives and History and the man I spoke with said from the looks of it on google and the architectural design he would say that it is around a 1900-1920's home.

UPS store does PO boxes that have a street address (123 main st #205) so it looks like an office suite without putting PO BOX 205 on the return.