I would rather have no tenant and eat a few months rent than deal with a$$holes.

It looks great and in this "green" era we are in right now you can advertise it as being eco-friendly.The only time I would not reccomend it would be for a rental because it is soft and scratches easily.

He handles all our accounts be it IRA, Roth IRA's, inherited ROTH IRA's, and he eats, breathes, and sleeps teaching about prohibited transactions....

There's some debate on if green/purple board should be put on the ceilings.

Sure, there is green grass, but there's not any interesting landscaping going on.

Is it on green board or floated?

But why on God's Green Earth would I want to spend $900,000 on a 16 unit, 2 building complex, when I can likely buy 16 units split between 4 buildings locally for less than $400,000?

You want to run your business in the green at all times. 

Fast forward 3 years and I'm laying hundreds of SqFt of tile, replacing ceilings, and now I eat bugs for lunch (not really). 

Of course there will be boom/bust cycles in both tech and RE, but SF is the hub of technology and it is eating the world (for better or worse).Supply and demand- given the above bullet, markets are built on supply and demand.