You can not buy property at retail price and expect to rent it out and get positive cash flow.

My main focus will be to actually purchase these, rehab them (decent for rentals, nice for retail-resale) and wholesale a few of them out if I'm already caught up in 1 or 2 of them.

I dreamed up a state of the art retail concept store that is based around a outdoor mall retal.

Once it hits the MLS (in many cases), you are then dealing with owner occupant buyers who are willing to pay retail market value.Can you do walkthroughs?

Validation of the increased sales price means a second appraisal and documentation of any repairs you did, if any.You also have to have a property inspection, but that is pretty much a no brainer in a retail transaction.

You could certainly make a living rehabbing and retailing property or in the rental business, but wholesaling or birddogging are more REI myth than reality.How do you manage to go full time while working a full time job?

$600 rent for $34K is probably acceptable, but buying for essentially retail price is not.

General Growth states 29.5 billion in assets, 200 million square feet of space and 24,000 retail stores.

Yes, if you are looking to buy for long term holds the ideal time would be over the next year or so, but you have to balance that with the fact that buying to fix and retail right now is not the ideal while a year or two ago it was gravy.

I wanted some other opinions on the state of rehab/retail investing.