The builder built one identical to it over near the beach, and liked the end result enough to do another inland down the street from his house. 

Also, I'm slightly on the fence on what to do with the restaurant equipment.

1. zoning/usability Issues - healthcare commercial real-estate has a different zoning rules, may use specialized equipment (x-rays, etc)  2. smaller pool of clients  - hospitals, healthcare providers, healthcare organizations 3. build-out costs - dental offices, for instance, require significant tenant improvement - equipment, etc, similar with surgical space  4. clients are risk averse compared to other clients, leases generally longer term Any other thoughts? 

I just posted almost the identical question and again got the same answers as you (about half). 

If the equipment is owned and you have several guys on payroll between jobs you can build it at a fraction of the cost as someone who needs to hire it out.

Any property should be offered fully functional, and properly equipped with at least the most basic standard elements.

The cheapest products will generally last the least amount of time, even though the labor to install a better (not necessarily Best grade) product is virtually identical.

That would be like a use car dealer saying that because he makes more money selling used sedans, his personal truck was a bad buy...or a field sports retailer saying that buying ice sport equipment retail is a bad buy...you can't ever hope to only buy everything with an investment or resale mentality...that would make you entire life a job. 

Every brand has degraded over the last 10 years driven by consumers who just want cheap equipment (and why not, if they fail sooner then they can sell a new system sooner).

@John Woodrich (CPA) and @Scott Jensen (Financial Advisor) are the two local professionals and investors I know who are best equipped to properly answer this question and give you advice.