I also recognize that a newbie, it's critical to absorb as much possible.A few of the books I'm reading and have read include:- Millionaire Real Estate Investor - The Book on Rental Property Investing & Landlording- Black Swan - Out of State Real Estate Investing - Cashflow Quadrant- Rich Dad/Poor Dad- What every real estate investor needs to know about cash flowIn the next few months, I'm planning on reading:- How I turned $5K into $5,000,000- How to invest with low or no money down- The advanced guide to real estate investing If a group is interested in getting together to exchange ideas based on reading and have meaningful, and hopefully actionable discussions, please let me know.

Outside of checking the laws and local market rents I'd take a bit of a step back and recognize that $100 is a 10% increase in rent which may represent a significant increase for someone, enough to make them leave.

I recognize that it is tough to give up on contractor and recognize that you will not be getting your money's worth. 

You can backup to multiple cloud services and it also has OCR that recognized text in the scanned docs for searching & editing. 

Let's also assume that most tenants of the strip mall are nationally recognized companies with strong leases.Thank you all in advance for your replies.

Really hated to see you recognize wholesalers as an investor or even as an accepted operation, as you know, most do not follow the rules, regulations, laws or ethics expected in this industry, yet you continue to advance their misguided desires of success in real estate.

Agency loan is probably your best bet, although recognize that there will be recourse carveouts for "bad boy" acts (i.e. fraud).  

They said if my name was part of the company name and they could easily recognize who they were dealing with then there would be no problem.

Your computer will recognize your very own phone as an external hard drive and you and create multiple extra folders in that harddrive and drag and drop whatever it is you need, be it pictures (jpg, gif...etc), movies (mp4, avi, dvi...etc), music (avi, mp3, midi, wav etc), documents (doc, pdf, xl, etc) it supports nearly all the files your macbook or pc can support in media.

I enjoy living in a place where I know & recognize my neighbors.