You are suffering from unsatisfaction and FOMO, but keeping your W2 is the best strategy for long-term wealth because you are lendable and earning the whole time.

We all know most markets in the country are suffering from a huge shortage of affordable housing.

Continue your positive thinking and you will find the right deal, get it financed, and then suffer all the fear, anxiety, and sleepless nights we have all gone through LOL.  

She knew I was in it to make profit and was going to suffer severe loss if the property was a bad deal.

If that's not the case and the GC still requires 1/3 payment up front,  it means they have other projects that are suffering or lack quality subcontract relationships and can't place them on net 30's and when contractors are moving money around to cover for other projects,  that's a slippery slope. 

So I suffered for a long time financially.

She suffers some inconvenience.

I would avoid, suffered huge losses due to 6+ month vacancies between tenants and very expensive turn repairs (~4k after only 1 year).I will update this post if my experience changes for the better 

The commercial real estate market (which includes multifamily) has suffered a big hit over the last couple of years. 

Are rentals also suffering and having to lower rents?