I have a good credit score but have never taken out a loan of any kind, and I also have little to no reported income for the last 8 months.

Or asking for advice which I think is kind of ironic since I’ve been on this site basically 18 months.

I have to hire labor, so in your experience, what might be the most direct/best way to handle this kind of renovation??

If the rest of your buildings are running smoothly, I'd say the only common denominator is that TBT PM.Another idea is to send a "secret shopper" to go through the tenant onboarding process on these vacant units.Yet another is to see if you can reach out to your remaining tenants (under the guise of a customer satisfaction survey, for example) to see if they can shed some light on it.

What are the most common commercial properties types lenders lend on? 

Hello Alissa,I am starting out on the multi Family journey as well.To start any kind of evaluation you need at least two documents.

On that note, what site and or public records entity should I be looking at and how much and what kind information is available there?

The zoning would not allow us to build a multi-family without subdividing the lot, however we were able to "replace in kind" and then change the use.

@Elizabeth Wilson  its far to early in the process.. having done this for many years before it became ILLEGAL in our state the only way we bought them was within 48 hours of the auction and usually the day before.you need big time cash and big time risk and you need to have in at title company that will give you a date down on the phone.. if your in a title abstract state that takes for ever to run title I don't see this as any kind of viable.

You will find that it's common on BP to recommend that you don't hang onto no-mortgage houses just because they cash flow nicely that way.