Many folks lost many many million so dollars investing in that city .. so you get painted with that brush unfortunately.. so that's why you need your local HML like me with a little pot belly my big cigar and I take a liking to you.. that's how it works

This will definitely have to change over time because the going rent for a building like this with triple net is $19-21 a sq ft. 

Negative Cash flow, is just like continuing to add to the pot of a hand you've lost.

Check out the pot casts and read the free books.

Personally a high interest rate and a decent chuck of the profits would entice me to invest in you especially if you aren't putting your own money into the pot.

The net is 20k a month (around 250 a property/unit).

I guess to get off the pot that would be most direct.

In contrast, we had someone break into the washers and dryers on numerous occasions, a drug dealer, a pot smoker, a gal who had boa constrictors, and more issues in a month than my 9 SFRs had in a YEAR. 

I'd say flipping is more tax punitive than offering tax advantages, but at the end of the day what you net is what's most important, and you can earn sizable net gains flipping as well.

Now we need to find wholesalers and purchase and sell houses to build up a pot of cash to utilize for potential fix and flips or fix and holds for rentals.