These are great ways to find deals but its not enough.

Just to give you an example of the type of thing you'd be potentially looking out for, if the community has a pool terrace planned and it's orientation in the new building would face directly towards your property, that could be a source of significant noise and disturbance for you/your tenants, and could make it much harder to sell your property once the new building is built and occupied.On the positive side, new apartment buildings cost millions of dollars to develop and build, and developers really only sink that much money into areas where they're forecasting rent growth and property appreciation for their investment.  

You may also want to confirm that your estate planning is in order to ensure that someone can seamlessly step into your shoes to deal with tenants in the event of accident or death.

Hey guys, Looking for input on a retail deal I'm helping a friend with.

I am unsure how to best find a source of inventory for deals.

We have been working together for ~5 years and have closed many deals.

Website with tab for maintenance requests which forwards direct to him and cc's me... life is good.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as far as some reputable builders that are available for such a project?

Marcus,If you want more exposure you can list it on the MLS, and you will have to pay a fee to the agent that brings you the tenant then you will have to do a credit check and background check yourself for each applicant however for my clients I prefer to list it on Zillow rentals only, because I can manage the applications directly from there and the prospective tenant only pays $35 application fee once and can apply for different properties with the same application fee.

I never did any deals with them.