It sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders and I'm sure you have someone in your family who agrees.  

If you want to rub shoulders with mostly folks doing deals just saying the REIAs are where you'll find folks with 20 doors, 40 doors, 100+ doors. 

Down side of not working at the office:No free coffee, no morning doughnuts, no office lunch on Fridays, no 5:00 PM beer in the fridge and can't make free photocopies sitting on the copier.The upside:No task master cat looking over your shoulder all day, no fur-balls on your keyboard, you won't get hit on for favors by other employees and you can keep your own health insurance plan.

It is also shouldering an elementary school as well.

Not all cases but lenders have a chip on their shoulder because you don't fit into a little box with a pretty bow for them.I often think it's comical when a lender see more strength in a Wal-Mart worker pulling down 10 bucks an hour than a business owner making huge bank with cash enough to pay the mortgage for years.

Also, taking out a loan is going to incentivize you ton knock this project out fast because now you have the pressure of interest payments and another person (the lender) looking over your shoulder.

If that tenant ever goes out the second or third generation tenant might not be national but regional or local in nature and if NNN and taxes are really high above base rent you might have to go lower on rent to land the tenant.If this is a strip center with NNN leases then the leases typically state the tenants WILL ONLY cover their pro-rata share of property taxes,expenses,etc.Example if you had 6 tenants in a building and then 2 go out the other 4 tenants do not want to shoulder the expenses for (CAM) property taxes, maintenance, and management fees above their base rent for spaces they do not occupy and do not generate sales out of.What you do is check BEFORE while under LOI or PSA with a local tax attorney who challenges and appeals the property taxes to see what is the custom for after a sale.

I don't need an owner looking over my shoulder, second-guessing my decisions, or going around me and negotiating special deals with the tenant that I have to clean up later.

I'm starting on the larger side for a new investor but I've got a good head on my shoulders, a decent chuck of change I'm sitting on, and a good partner to help as well!

But sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders so you can weigh the risk vs reward vs team quality and such plenty fine. :)