Dont' get me wrong- if you follow my posts at all, you'll see I am a HUGE advocate for banking on appreciation, but $800 per month is a lot to swallow.

After swallowing some lumps thanks to one thread I posted back in April, I should (crossed fingers, no blown furnaces or sheard off roofs) be in a good position next year to reinvest.This is hopefully not a beat the dead horse, "where is the best cash flow in X" post, more of a strategy question for anyone who knows the market in CT.Here is what my limited knowledge/intuition tells me: Waterbury, Bridgeport, parts of Hartford cash flow best because of the inherent risk, lower fairfield county cash flows worst (today) because of NYC effect on price/rent, and there is an in-between SOMEWHERE.I think that somewhere is in the central part of the state between route 8 and 91 north of new haven, east of waterbury.

Typically, you see full-service (gross) leases being used for CBD office buildings, but most of the retail centers in my market are on a NNN lease.

I did another one were I paid 240k for the property and a developer swallowed us up in 18 months and we sold for 970k.. without doing much to the project.As Cody mentions this is not for everyone and I would say very few could do this in reality. 

That's a tougher pill to swallow. 

It doesn’t make sense to go through the fundraising process each time since the focus should be on trying to swallow up these deals in short order. 

That is a lot for many tenants to swallow.  

Nobody wants to lose any money, but losing $5k or $10k is a much easier pill to swallow than losing 50k or 100k.

As a young investor the up front fee is a little much for me to swallow at $4,000.

Long-term, everything will likely be fine, just a painful pill to swallow after only owning for 1 year and believing I had more time on this particular HVAC