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.

The happiest day of my investing career was when I transferred ownership to all those houses in one transaction and to never ever go there again with that asset class.But thats me.. section 8 can work but its not as passive as folks claim.

As much as you push the narrative of "passive" investing and this being a suitable option-- it just exposes the fact you're a predator on the uninformed.

A good chunk of my career of day jobs has been in analyzing data and forecasting the future.

I’ve got 2 kids, a strong career, am the sole breadwinner, am not moving my family anywhere, and I have very little time.

Most of it is just desert and not suitable for living or hunting. 

I had a pretty successful career doing that and made good money but, it was not my passion, I love real estate and everything about it the good and the bad.

I remember early in my career, years back, a friend of mine closed his very first multifamily deal in a part of Chicago that, at the time, was just staritng to buzz with interest.

Lake county Northern CA where I lived and started my RE career also had massive fires that burnt over 700k acres went right through one of the developments my family did ( the Hunter Ranch) homes were destroyed there but not that many as those were 20 acre lots so maybe 10 houses..

Unless it's rapidly appreciating it doesn't sound like a suitable rental anyway if you have to come out of pocket that much.