Was no problem and cost me only the $30 filing fee plus a few bucks to get my signature notarized at a UPS store.

What about stores who sell $300 basketball shoes, or $1,000 tire rims?

This is pretty much the same as when you apply for something online, and the store needs to check your credit worth.  

5% growth rate in the neighborhood real estate market (sales)Similar projects in rehabs with sales price of 170k + in 1 miles radiusCalm neighborhood compared to some other districts thereGood infrastructure, stores, schools, good neighborsGood "bones" of the buildingGood starting prices compared to other neighborhoodsSome examples of flippers' success working in the neighborhood How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

5% growth rate in the neighborhood real estate market (sales)Similar projects in rehabs with sales price of 170k + in 1 miles radiusCalm neighborhood compared to some other districts thereGood infrastructure, stores, schools, good neighborsGood "bones" of the buildingGood starting prices compared to other neighborhoodsSome examples of flippers' success working in the neighborhood How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

If it's rural with small property lots versus those with acreage then the latter probably has more leeway to store their "treasures" on their own property. 

@Austin Smucker  Hi Austin, this property was bought by hanging a flyer at our local discount grocery store! 

If you don't have your own track record, you need to partner up with someone who does.As for the actual books, you can start with https://www.biggerpockets.com/store/raising-privat...by @Matt Faircloth.

So the seller came to me with a deal he was inherited by his father which is a nice piece of land and its leased out by a big grocery store chain and pays so much a month and is worth a good bit.

We're talking folks from Korea, who sometimes started out in grocery stores and retail, had stores burned in the '92 riots, went through lots of hardship.