Some of the rights and obligations of a tenant (optionee) overlap and considering each aspect alone instead of together will usually end up overcharging the optionee as they are paying twice for the rights and benefits of the property.I could probably write a book on this aspect alone (and there are books on valuations of options in general that apply to real estate).

Unless you're investing in a large lifestyle center or mall, you won't have the community aspect and your success is going to be directly tied to the sales of your retailers, nothing else.

If you're interested in the training aspect of a brokerage, your best bet is probably to start at one of the larger companies -- Keller Williams, Re/Max, etc -- as they tend to have the budgets necessary to provide new-agent training as well as on-going training.Of course, the reason they have those budgets is that they take a very large percentage of your commissions on each deal (up to 60%).Also, they may not provide training in areas most interesting to investors -- short sales, flips, wholesaling, etc.So, it's a trade-off...

Two great aspects of having a doctor as a tenant, your tenant will likely be able to afford the rent and they will be less likely to move, so long as he preceives the cost of buying is higher than the rents.

Since today is Easter, you could always hope to rise from the dead.Seriously, Bill (FinanceExaminer) has some good suggestions.Business Continuity is a much underlooked aspect of any small business ... even some large businesses.

Nic, You said you've been shooting a while so you are probably way past this, but Greg Block has a local basic handgun class in which he spends significant time discussing the legal aspects of using your weapon to defend yourself.

I had just finished studying The Legal Aspect of Real Estate for my broker's exam.I hesitated to answer this, since I seem to be an open target lately.

But I think you may be right as I have never marketed to multi-unit owners and they maybe more inclined to call.I understand the inefficiency aspect of having to go on every call.

We have a political group where you're more than welcome to get into the political aspects of this situation -- which I believe are very interesting....So, jokes or serious posts affirming political ideology will be removed if they aren't in that group.Thanks.

have job and steady income.thanks for your info. i am just starting to learn this so iam interested if you guys know the legal aspects, i understand all the other things like location ,price and so on.thank you.