I work on a local team that provides free educational classes on investing and I am happy to help you with any local connections I have that may be helpful to you in your journey! 

Best to have a local realtor to help you out.

Things like learning my local market,becoming familiar with different zip codes, not having to pay commission fees, building more relationships among other various things.   

Look for local REI groups. 

It is more challenging to get mortgages on properties that are of lower values, which is why I am suggesting local smaller banks, who have a mandate to serve the local communities. 

And the answer is always the same :-) There is no way to accurately do this...too many variables and moving parts, plus it varies too much from one locale to another.You need to find a really good General Contractor and pay him to walk the property with you....over and over....until you feel really comfortable estimating yourself, and that should take years.Alternatively there are online calculators (even one here in the tools section) but I would not rely on them for the reasons listed above.

First stop would be to your local County building permit office and see if it can even be moved. 

Trying to stay local but may have to consider out-of-state which I want to avoid if possible when starting out.

I would be happy to get some tips and start building some connections and local professional team.Thanks and Best Regards,Ricky Levy 

commercial as in retail?