From a broker perspective deal velocity is important to making money since you only make money when people move spaces or sell buildings. 

As a mental exercise, can you imagine the perspective of an investor that bought a property from you just 8 months prior to that email, had his FIRST TENANT miss payments, lie about making payments, make partial payments, then ultimately skip out on four months rent?

It’s an awesome place, but from a cash flow perspective it is challenging to make them pencil.

It demands strategy, discipline, and a professional approach.Would love to hear your thoughts or strategies on approaching real estate investing from a business perspective!

And read this post for a perspective on the issue: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1136752-expla...

It demands strategy, discipline, and a professional approach.Would love to hear your thoughts or strategies on approaching real estate investing from a business perspective!

It demands strategy, discipline, and a professional approach.Would love to hear your thoughts or strategies on approaching real estate investing from a business perspective!

It demands strategy, discipline, and a professional approach.Would love to hear your thoughts or strategies on approaching real estate investing from a business perspective!

Under-leveraging is detrimental to investment returns, but over-leveraging puts us at risk.Before I offer a few thoughts, let me point out that you've missed one vital piece of perspective in asking the question.

It's important to have the advice and perspective of an industry old-timer, in my opinion.