I plan to talk to both of them in the morning to figure out which is the best option for me. 

Land Entitlement is one of the riskiest Real Estate investments for several reasons:

1) High Upfront Costs with No Guarantees: We spend tens of thousands of dollars on due diligence to ensure the property is suitab...

It is easier for me because I have basically the opposite of ADHD, but putting everything on Google Calendar and blocking out what you want to do each week usually starts to work wonders if someone sticks to it.

Please keep those posts in the Classifieds forum.Need a spreadsheet or form?

They said for me to come back in 3 months, because I had only owned the property for 9 months.

It's hard for me to imagine suburban office / retail getting hit harder than it already has, and a small building for small companies in the services field feels interesting to me - right now that's a "Feel" and I have to wrap my head around whether data supports this hunch or not, but I do at the very least like the fact that office has been hit so hard, and seems to have no net new supply coming online. 

Plus for its high cash flow potential, utilizing a 1031 exchange to reinvest gains effectively made this experiment a relatively low risk for me.

The primary form of diligence we see on the forums is "what do you think of XYZ sponsor and deal" whereas the common form of diligence in the space by institutional investors, large investment groups, family offices, and sophisticated investors involves following the sponsor for years, underwriting the deals, validating rent comps, background checks on the general partners, and a host of other diligence that materially de-risks the investments.  

LOTS of rentals there it seems.El Paso is about a 12hr drive for me from Dallas. 

For me it is not the markets i did not invest in as much as the properties i did not purchase.