I have experience as an SFR investor (rentals), as a realtor as well as corporate experience in mortgage lending and servicing practices from a large bank - all of which I will leverage to grow my MLO career.

I most certainly would have been further along in my investing career. 

I have known him for 16 yrs and he has spent his entire career in retail leasing, primarily on grocery anchored strips, like FNRP's product.  

I am new to the real estate investment field as far as acquisitions go.

Congratulations on reaching this exciting level of success and stage in your career.

Because if/when one is new to the field, they don't yet know what they don't yet know. 

In an  Office or Industrial project, competing business can co-exist as neighbors because they are generally providing a service for which the "playing field" is away from the property.

Over the last several years casinos have went up, Ford Field (Lions) and Comerica Park (Tigers) were erected and people who loved the city began brainstorming how to revive it.More recently, Little Ceaser's Arena (new home of Pistons and Red Wings) construction started and is due to open Sept this year.

The good news is that your maintenance/renovation experience is going to help you throughout your career. 

Basically parked in a field overlooking the fields and forests.