I think you've forgotten about the concept of Constructive Receipt. 

Jimmy Napier, 40 years ago, told me that 95% of people do not really understand the concept.  

I looked at them since I liked the concept.

I love this concept of a developer working directly with a rural municipality to build affordable housing.

I sure like the concept though.. and I bet its fun.

Cash flow seems like the obvious one but I'm struggling with the concept of building equity at expense of cash flow. 

There are no shortcuts really because it takes time to grasp a lot of these concepts.

Participants in the commercial real estate space could do themselves a lot of favors by forgetting entirely the concept of purchase cap rate.Cap rate has only one useful purpose--and that is to estimate the price in which the property may sell for at a later date. 

If you’re not willing to do this, then you may be best off investing in some kind of real estate fund concept.  

Interesting concept!