Someone like him is a good resource for questions like this as he guides you through the transaction.

Hopefully it’s not combined with the landlord hatred.)It sounds more like an attempt to either admit they made a mistake or have to do any work to fix their problem.  

Say you get to keep 6-7k after tax.I like Option A all day long. 

The best thing about being a pilot is you will have a captive audience hours per day, with likely at least one of those audience making about $300k/yr. 

I'm currently working in commercial real estate sales, but would like to work on my own portfolio with my wife.

Meanwhile, your expenses, like debt service, taxes, insurance, and maintenance, continue.These are the requirements necessary to attain and maintain financial independence.

If you are already under lease, candidly you are likely behind the 8 ball as they say, I am hoping you have at least some abated rent while you get the buildout done prior to opening and rent commencing?  

why not develop something more proven like hotel on portions of it and make this a larger development and carve out pieces?

It would be great to have something like that.  

It could very well be its all lost but seems like a big jump to conclusions by investors that basically did very high interest rate investing and expected  CD like performance..