Following David Green's Core 4 strategy (realtor, contractor, property manager, and lender) gives confidence to invest anywhere.

If you don't want the partnership longterm, you should bring it up to your brother on a few possible exit strategies and collectively agree on 1 or 2 possible "outs". 

Is there another strategy you would go for? 

After all, we need that equity to fuel our growth strategy, right?

I want to develop strategies and criteria that will help me analyze deals and find properties to invest in.

For my senior project, I am researching the ideal marketing strategy for a hypothetical (but could become real) multi-unit Tiny Home STR property in Malibu, CA (with the potential to generate huge cash flow and long-term equity ;)To graduate, I need a guest from a real estate company to sit in on my final presentation (10 minutes) and to provide brief feedback (3-5 minutes) on Tuesday, April 23rd at 3:00 PM PST on Zoom (15 minutes total).

Commercial development, investing, & leasing is 100% custom and everything is negotiable. 

Well, lots of people use some variation of this strategy without even thinking about Starbucks.

Since this is a commercial REI post, the question seems a bit contradictory to the general commercial investment strategy.

As far as cash flow goes, I'm going to have the home customized to maximize cash flow