I wanted my cake and to eat it too!

Many want double drive thru's as since Covid places have gone 80% drive thru and 20% eat in when it used to be reverse unless it's a specific sit down restaurant without a drive thru.You could have 40,000 cars per day go by your property but if there is a median with turn around or they can't see it easily and have to work to get to your building that is a negative.

Save what you would have spent, build up a nest egg and then buy another in a year or two or three.

The same way we attack any debt we don't want to anchor us anymore- by punching it in the face with large principal payments.We buckle down, make our own coffee, brown bag our lunch and eat/drink at home or bring a picnic to the park Dave Ramsey style.   

Meaning you shouldn't be putting all of your eggs in one basket.

if you have that one finite nest egg to work with & will not be able to quickly keep saving more, then your best option is going to be either BRRRing or gator lending. my opinion!

The leases end in October and August, so if I were to buy it with a loan I would eat a part of the mortgage for four months on one property and six months on another.

Then request the draw, replenish the goose egg, and do it again.

But how are you going to solve the chicken and egg problem?  

My wife recently had a baby and I slacked a little bit for a few weeks and I had to eat crow with my partners as I caught up.