The site is not intuitive and you can only search by commercial properties - not specifics: Multi, Retail, Office, etc.  

You'll develop a sense of the neighborhoods, what you can get at what price point, what retail ready vs rehab ready is going for, and what the best value play might be in that area.

Shortsell situation.HOA $250 annuallyTaxes $2000 annuallyFHA loan so PMI of $420 annuallyHome owner's insurance $-500 annuallyPM assumed 10% of rent (I will manage, but keeping it in the formula)Vacancy 8.3% assumedAdministrative Fees $240 annuallyI have utilized buy and hold spreadsheet (30yr long form) on BP Fileplace.Home in NE San Antonio, newer homes, newer retail and GROWING. 

If you are buying in ESTABLISHED and KNOWN owner occupied and are doing RETAIL flips then you can get a pretty good handle  on ARV through all the methods mentioned above.However if your trying to comp low end cheapie houses that are rentals.. then they are only worth what basically a wholesaler will pay for them.. regardless of comps.

One good reason is that any sensible retail buyer will shy away from such properties if the mold and leakage are significant.

One awcommercial.com goes to my other specialty sites www.nnnrealestateinfo.com for retail and triple net stuff and the other goes to apartments www.apartmentinvestingusa.comI am doing more work to those as well but right now I am focusing on the main page.

You are competing against all other retail buyers.Why did the house come out of contract at $249,000?

Karen Margrave Hi,I hope you are well.In the area I was looking and most of the Northland (Kansas City North) for that matter, the past decade has seen a lot of new retail construction and redevelopment.

I own a great 3 tenant retail strip 10 miles east of Dallas.Also I would caution you against setting your cash on cash return goals, unrealistically high (16%).

If it's a brew pub, retail, especially the in the restaurant-brew pub business is very difficult.