It feels like banks offering .5% APR - they are in the position of power and if you want to store your money somewhere else besides your mattress, you accept .5%.

Steven,Couple thoughts...Stay with licensed.Three places to locateCall the president of three different local REIA clubs ask for a referral for tradesmen who give investor pricingCheck with the local fire department.

You really need too ask an attorney familiar with lending regulations in your state, better yet, call the state finance department or state banking regulatory department and tell them what you are planning, in detail and they will tell you what you need or how to do it.

Ex: He took a washing machine & dryer out of one and stored it in his garage until my next vacancy came up that needed one, he does drive-by's for us regularly.

When I was in my first or second year of onsite managing while in college, I actually called the fire department thinking there was a gas leak at the apartment complex.

As well as we are always into new projects, we are continuously working with Lacoste, US Polo, Swatch stores and some well known local brands and creating their new store projects whenever a new one is opening in an expanding market of retail.Apart from our existing company, we have created a new team for commercial real estate that will work on commission basis and meet the foreign investors and local sellers (site, existing real estate projects) in Turkey.We are currently representing an investor group in US that are interested in logistics, an emerging market in Turkey.

If you did maybe you could get them to drive by it and take some pictures for you so you can see what they are talking about.You could also call the local hardware stores (not the big box shops) and ask them who they would recommend to do the work for you.

I also think that these type of retail operations are facing headwinds from lack of local enforcement of shoplifting laws in places such as San Francisco, where they have closed many stores.

Some of their worst practices were the "company stores" and housing costs that were usurious, while selling the crops and pocketing much of the proceeds before the sharing. 

The first thing I would do is check with your local zoning department to ensure that you wouldn't need to have the area rezoned.