There is a ton of martial out there and its hard to know what is good and what what is not.  

I remember that feeling of panic if the rent didn't show up right on time.

So unless you self insure you later years it's best to get some whole life that can stay with you to the end, not a ton, some, IMOLife insurance is not an investment, it serves a purpose and is an expense, deductable if you set it up right, like a key man policy amoung partners.

If it is a good deal, lock it up right away.

I don’t know much, I don’t know anything about rehabs and I know prices on materials are way up right now, and honestly I’m just tossing numbers out there.

They are business owners who are opening a martial arts studio.

If you don’t want to operate a business like that then is the building rentable to a spa, gym, dance/martial arts studio in a triple net lease?

I think we can rule out a change in tastes as being a primary driver -frankly a driver in any capacity- of the multi-family buy-up.  Right

or whatever - the two sides of the coin should be merged , obviously "how many units" you want in xyz years is part of the business plan but when your weighing the costs to your personal life having the "reason" tied up right along side it is going to be golden for getting you through , so as an example - say you're coming up on the deadline in 6 months and you're 20% short - well if the focus was just on # of units you could just make some excuses and continue on as you were but if you also had, in writing the commitment to yourself that you needed those units to fund your kids college or something it puts that extra fire under you to take a closer look at whatever budget you've made and how much youre sticking to it - or hustle some overtime and start networking one more night a week or whatever.Sorry if that was a little ranty :)

Or I could give my uncle $15,000 and we could work some type of owner financing out but since he's old he doesn't want to do a long term, but i don't want to lock all $15,000 up right now.