To your question on #4, I did give this tenant some TI,3 months free rent 100%, but they still had to pay for CAM/NNN charges.I asked them for the first month, last month, and security deposit. x3 of the base rent.Rent escalation was a fixed 3% per year.Specifically, in a restaurant based business, you want to give them as much help as possible, we gave them 3 months of free rent to get stuff situated regardless if it was a turnkey restaurant/bar.

Cleveland has trendy and up and coming neighborhoods, a fantastic restaurant scene, 3 major league sports franchises, and is doing well in general.

Much of the costs involved with building are in the environmental regulations, supply chain issues, price of diesel is huge, permit fees, costs of installing infrastructure, etc.

A strategy we use(d) is targeting self-directed IRA investors and inviting them to a Lunch-and-Learn (at a restaurant venue) to explain the many ways they can take their "lazy-money" sitting in their IRA and putting it to use by investing in whole mortgage loans for a yield that out-performs inflation (6.5% to 8.5%). 

Out of curiousness where do the restaurant workers live who make tips and minimum wage??

However, when I explained that there may be a 3rd party who has in error been assuming ownership rights through some past mortgage mix-up in chain of title, she says she would rather let it go to tax sale than to have anyone get hurt financially by her selling it to an investor that I could bring to the table for her.She would have taken 1-3K last year to take it off her hands as profit before Dec. 2012 sale.

It has freed me of the chains of carrying 3 phones, as well as having the anxiety of worrying about "what if I miss a phone call".

Or search by “restaurants” or “bars” .

-Two Chains, probably

Your mileage may vary, and of course a valid deal that fits your investment strategy can be found in many different places, including these chain wholesale groups.