Feel free to reach out to me directly, I can connect you with mine.

If you feel you would get a BIGGER return from the kind of deal you described, ask yourself why an investor would want to give you that extra money rather than keeping it for themselves.

The worst thing you can do as a landlord is be hated where people feel you have personally and negatively impacted them.

It’s the simplest way to get a feel of what it is like to be a landlord without going through the hassle of managing rehab projects.

I've been acting like I'm the seller when the bank occasionally calls and it feels wrong - it's just getting strange at this point.  

I don't know, but you would 100% want to check in with the existing optometrist, maybe they don't get "walk in" business anyways and do not care and wouldn't mind the like-minded neighbors (I've had mortgage neighbors before, and do not care -- I do mortgages they don't, case in point office mortgages across the country, so I wind up getting business from them), but an ice cream shop is going to be LIVID if you rent the unit next store to a frozen yoghurt shop, since that's a LOT of walk-in business that's now getting split two waysAnd then to make it really fun, here's the question I'll throw back at you.

Feel free to reach out if you need some referrals. 

Please feel free to contact me !

And, while "perfect" doesn't exist, "good" IS there to be found.

Then after you close on a property, then you can decide if you want to pay it down or off.If you want to discuss your strategy or numbers, feel free to reach out.