I have helped a friend market an online retail business and spent every spare second of free time doing marketing to help it get off the ground.

You'll also find that brokers for example specialize due to the vast knowledge required to do all kinds of commercial, such as hospitality, retail strip centers, multi-family, office, etc.

I sell everything for what the market can bear, whether wholesale or retail.

Recently, I came across a motivated seller of a retail/ office space.

That number is extremely low, but in my market, you can easily find homes that cheap that may need as little as $10 - $15000 to retail.

I have started my own investing company now and have both an acquisition website to reach motivated sellers and a retail website to promote my wholesale and other exit strategy properties.

I did this in a rental - used shelves between two tall cabinets, and had positive response about it.Now that I'm putting a kitchen design together for a flip, I'm wondering what the situation is in retail.

I even had restaurants, retail and a gymnastics, cheerleading and trampoline school but that was more of a non-profit community service type project.Basically what you are describing is how equity capital works.

In retail real estate, there are 'sexy' and 'who cares' improvements. 

When I finally retailed them up to sell, vacant and staged, the cats and birds moved in.