I was also President of the Blue Key Honor Society.

But then practically speaking who's willing to spend that much money and take that much time on something that could still be a crap shoot.Now having said all that, because the home was built circa '20's you may be able to get your local historical society interested in the project.

Secondly, there are always comps - especially in an urban area like Miami.You have to look at comps from the eyes of an appraiser.

We live in a "what's in it for me" type of society... so if your prospect doesn't see "what's in it for them" EARLY in your marketing piece that may hurt you. 

From Urban Institute, to Business Insider Mag, to The Economist all have same result:https://caanet.org/app/uploads/2016/02/Jan2016_Ren...This is one by "The Economist" which is a popular economy magazine:http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/...A housing/planning and urban development website:http://marketurbanism.com/2016/04/02/rent-control-...Foundation for Economic Education:https://fee.org/articles/the-case-against-rent-con...Business Insider:http://www.businessinsider.com/does-rent-control-w...CEI:https://cei.org/blog/rent-control-why-it-so-bad

Worked for the City of Miami as an Urban Designer for a while.  

In my area, the Humane Society (the place that houses dogs and cats for adoption) will come and haul stuff away.  

Being an entrepreneur in today’s tech-crazed society can be a little daunting at times.

Thanks Laura and Good Luck, looks like an awesome money maker and helping out society.

The warm belt states experiencing high growth from baby boomers retiring and migrating out of the cold belt states have plenty of retail tenants small and large with expansion plans ready to go in those spaces.Typical time in most warm belt states to re-tenant and get rent coming in to dark STNL could be anywhere from 3 months to 1 year depending on box size, location, mom and pop versus regional and national tenants who tend to move slower and be more methodical.We are not moving to a society where people sit at the computer all week long and stay in a house and drop ship 50 packages by drones.