There are urban areas (GTA, Vancouver, Calgary) where you will hard pressed to find a deal where rent would be 0.5% - 1% of acquisition costs.

Big one is saturation levels if urban,suburban,rural the ring radius changes.If you want to open a pizza place but in a 3 mile suburban radius there is 20 of them you are going to have a tough time out there making sales without running coupons all the time.An exception would be if you were the only Chicago deep dish style in town and people pay more for your product to get something they can't find elsewhere and even if they can find it then it's not the same quality. 

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There are areas in some mid-belt states and cold belt states that were over retailed to begin with and with net migration moving away to cold belt states can leave an oversupply of available space to rent even if not much new development is underway.One tip I use to do with developers is drive around depending on rural, suburban, urban core a certain mile ring radius and see what occupancy looks like and locations for existing properties.

In most urban markets with renovated, older construction, it probably is not.

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There are SO many things happening here and downtown that are revitalizing the city, beginning with the urban core and slowly spreading out to the neighborhoods.  

If you live in a more urban area, I like to drive the alleys.