However, my student loan payments from dental hygiene school are limiting my investing power. 

Without a cost segregation study, you would depreciate the $12M over a 39 year period, $307,692 per year.Within this office building, you have assets such as paved parking, specialty electrical, finishes, carpeting, landscaping, sidewalks, office furniture, electrical systems, plumbing systems, etc.

The deck is stacked and the majority owner holds too much power to tank the property if they go under.  

Very powerful CRM for follow up. 

Recently, while trimming out an electrical device, a wire popped out and hit me directly in my eye (my fault for not wearing the proper PPE).

I am doing just fine in a state that has one of the most, if not the most, favorable tenant regimes, by governance, statute and court.I don't blame my misfortunes on whatever political party is in power.

@Jerry Sexton M2M is my vote.My experience is that for "most" properties the lease provides way more power to the tenant than to the landlord.

@Justin G.Each time our team has reviewed a potential hotel/motel to multifamily deal, the cost to upgrade electrical kills the deal.

The 1031 exchange has been a powerful vehicle for real estate investors to defer capital gains taxes.

The 1031 exchange has been a powerful vehicle for real estate investors to defer capital gains taxes.