Always curious how others weigh that trade-off.When it comes to balancing cashflow with long term equity, allow me a slight running start. 

I want to buy and hold, running this as a retirement project, with my son managing it. 

$77,000 earnings on a $190,000 investment is unheard of in real estate, but quite normal for a well running business.New RE investors are always after cash flow and CoC return.

I’m also aware there could be tax advantages to running a rental business, which could help offset the shortfall.I’ve had experience with short-term rentals in the past, but I found them to be a headache.

And if your selling NON mls props its hard to run data..

How long (Months, year) does the training run and what is covered. 

Hey Bigger Pockets community, I'm just starting out in Step 1 (get educated) on what I want to become a successful career in real estate investment.I also currently run an e-commerce business that is currently completely online, but would benefit from having a brick & mortar storefront, and I had an idea that maybe using the investment capital I'm looking to allocate into real estate into a commercial property my business can operate out of until I decide to sell the property in or rent it out to another business.I am obviously very naive when it comes to the complexity of any good real estate deal (especially commercial VS residential), but I'm hoping to spend as much time learning from everyone here who is on their journey as well.My main concern with the idea of buying commercial to operate my business out of it that I might struggle to rent it out afterwards and that there may likely be depreciation in the commercial real estate market over the next 5 years.I understand there is a lot of nuance depending on the local market but I'm guessing commercial is even less of a "safe" bet than finding a solid residential deal to leverage in some way.

If I am buying an investment vehicle that I know is going to depreciate, then it doesn't matter what the market does.

Our portfolio is running around a 4% vacancy right now, but that's across 300+ units. 

Ive already started looking further out to do BRRR/Flips as this is one of those jobs I cannot really afford to lose, having it will help me a lot in the long run.