I might give you some pointers on where to start, but if I have to spoon feed and hand hold you thru the entire process then what advantage are you giving me?  

Looking back I think a fair analogy is it's like digging a ditch with a spoon, lol.

That billion dollar real estate developer probally wont waste time with you and the deals he is working on are completely different.Nobody will be there to spoon feed you. 

Also I wanted to research on my own instead of getting spoon-fed.

You will at some point want to dig your eyes out with a spoon. 

I don't want to be spoon-fed advice, I want to gain the knowledge to enable informed decision-making.

A question I'd have for the thread and lurkers: Are you spoon feeding the appraiser data pertaining to closed comps that support what you think it's worth when she or he shows up?

Fully furnished down to spoons and I pay all utilities but built these units efficiently and on budget to maximize my margins.  

That's all the rest of the guys spouting ethics do on a daily basis and unless they were born with a silver spoon in their mouths like Trump, they started from somewhere too, with the same questions.

We started a business selling my wife's wood-carved spoons, cutting boards, etc for a little extra income and am looking to start an additional business myself in the near future.