thanks, lots of data to digest in the report, lol.

Keep digesting info and seeking education until you feel comfortable.  

Agree with @Natalie KolodijMy advice to all clients who are eligible for the 20% deduction (aka QBI aka Section 199A) is to file an extension and wait until the dust settles.Otherwise, it's quite likely we will have to amend these returns once the IRS issues more clarifications, the software vendors will debug their software (which is work in progress as we speak), and we accountants will digest the implications of the new rules.

Would anyone be willing to give me the "reader's digest" version of how cash flows through a commercial property, and a what the big picture looks like?

Easier to digest.   

I now see that there is quite a lot of information to digest before doing the deed.

Having nothing stand out as foreign has made the coursework easy to digest and remember. 

A few days later after everyone had a chance to digest the numbers, they were calling the agent off the hook, to which he had to tell everyone it was already gone.

I'll need to digest all the advice in the responses on this post and further understand what makes a good deal.

Dang, sorry to hear that Dan, I was enjoying the exercise of drilling down into the nuts and bolts of the topic, really made me think, ponder and digest.