They typically provide education and also have classes/courses to take.

It is not very difficult or complicated to evaluate commercial real estate, there are plenty of good books available that can teach you how, textbooks, online courses, community college classes, even excellent youtube videos etc, and it is actually quite enjoyable in the process to learn.

I usually run several CMAs, with different criterial, and of course compare tax appraisal value with a wholesale price, add 5% as a fee to a transaction, in some cases.

Of course, there's no perfect right or wrong answer, it will be different for all but make sure you do what is comfortable for you and what fits your goals. 

i have much higher expenses and more headaches of course, but cash flow is higher.most major tier 1 or tier 2 cities should have significant enough rental demand to be able to implement this strategy pretty successfully. 

It just up a bunch of course and killed my cash flow.

Of course the OP received the funds but the point I would argue is that if the OP received in Jan and not Dec in his bank account.

Kudos for taking action and adjusting course when needed!

Did you end up taking the course?

Now, of course, every market is different.