Re: So I've been offered an old movie theatre built in the late 30s
WHAT?!?!?!

, NO! How can anyone allow that.
You haven´t read the story that I wrote a few pages ago about that really nice old 1920ies movie theater now used as a book store, right?
It´s always, and only, about money once investors (hence the term, right?) appear on the scene.
In my time as a location scout I´ve seen a lot of really nice historical buildings getting converted, renovated, leveled. It´s like a curse sometimes, always being a few weeks, months, a year late to the party.
Just recently I had to find an old library, with wood paneling and built in heavy book shelves, and a colleague gave me a headsup on one building that was built as a gift to the Fuhrer in 1939. I found that building, it then was an old school for officers, and almost all of it is still in mostly original shape. But the library had been remodeled as an apartment just last year. Sad, really. But that´s life, out with the old, in with the new
Paul, as far as my experience goes, a deal´s only final when the ink´s dry and money changed hands. I´ve personally seen people back out at the last possible minute in property deals. So lets way and see, and all thumbs pressed.