Hello BP,After countless years of being on the “renter” side of the spectrum.

On the extreme other end of the spectrum (in the no value category) are these wholesale seminar “gurus”.  

NFL home-game weekends would be nice also.And the other end of the fun-misery spectrum, you have some of the world's leading cancer treatment centers just down the street, and so there are always people coming in from out of town for long periods of time for treatment. 

Been an owner for 4-5 years, learned quite a few things already, among which is that a commercial kitchen is not something to be made or modified lightly - it has to be properly designed and properly made in order to function well.So I have this retail store of about 1100 sqft that someone wants to take for a small coffee shop with the ability to bake.My question is where do I start searching for someone to design/compute small walk-in cooler, grease trap, vent-a-hood, stove and HVAC on top of that so all this could become useable without anyone getting burned.From my past experience I have local mexican crews who can do any and all of the listed things and they'd do them relatively well except they won;t ever be designed to actually work well together.On the other end of the spectrum I've worked with american general contractors and they tend to cost 2-3 times the Mexican crews and, at least in my case, ended up delivering about same end result (in all fairness it was only kitchen remodeling, not design from ground up; but statement stands valid and I was able to later do almost the same at literally third of the cost).Your expertise is appreciated.

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts as they certainly ran from one end of the spectrum to the other. 

Covers the whole spectrum of the rental process (listings, tenant applications/screening tools, lease agreements, rent collection, and maintenance request tracking).

With both ends of the spectrum I've noticed issues with managers being so busy that they are unable to keep up with clients and tenants. 

Many syndicators are able to put together a portfolio of general partner interests which provide enough recurring income to support their lifestyle.The key is to figure out where you want to be on the active - passive spectrum.

So on one end of the spectrum, I do deals that would be a flat fee type structure I'm assuming, and on the other end I have deals that would operate like a traditional loan but with a balloon.

@Chris MartinThat sure was a lot of words, but it doesn’t change fact that rental property investors simply do not buy an evenly distributed selection of properties across the full price spectrum and put them into service.