I can purchase their for $40-$45 per sq. for 1500 sq. ft homes.As Jason pointed out, price at purchase is only one of hundreds of aspects to being a landlord.

Which kinda brings up another aspect.

Had no experience in any of those aspects!

Welcome to Bigger Pockets, Chris.Bigger Pockets is a great place to learn about many aspects of real estate investing.

Because other aspects of my business(es) will have great impact on my tax bracket, available deductions, etc, I'm not sure I could accurately factor taxes into the equation even if I wanted to.

Some of the rights and obligations of a tenant (optionee) overlap and considering each aspect alone instead of together will usually end up overcharging the optionee as they are paying twice for the rights and benefits of the property.I could probably write a book on this aspect alone (and there are books on valuations of options in general that apply to real estate).

Unless you're investing in a large lifestyle center or mall, you won't have the community aspect and your success is going to be directly tied to the sales of your retailers, nothing else.

If you're interested in the training aspect of a brokerage, your best bet is probably to start at one of the larger companies -- Keller Williams, Re/Max, etc -- as they tend to have the budgets necessary to provide new-agent training as well as on-going training.Of course, the reason they have those budgets is that they take a very large percentage of your commissions on each deal (up to 60%).Also, they may not provide training in areas most interesting to investors -- short sales, flips, wholesaling, etc.So, it's a trade-off...

Two great aspects of having a doctor as a tenant, your tenant will likely be able to afford the rent and they will be less likely to move, so long as he preceives the cost of buying is higher than the rents.

Since today is Easter, you could always hope to rise from the dead.Seriously, Bill (FinanceExaminer) has some good suggestions.Business Continuity is a much underlooked aspect of any small business ... even some large businesses.