Meanwhile, a lot of Landlords and other small business owners are taking significant hits to their income and wealth they've spent years - sometimes decades - building and your response is that they should suck it up as if they were somehow handed their position in society.One thing about real estate it can be the great equalizer its one of the few industries were you can get pretty wealthy on your own if you stick to it..

The building is flex use industrial and market value is about $2.2 million and our option price is $1.4 million. 

If you've been doing construction PM and made it through Architecture school, clearly you've been around the industry for a while. 

I believe that the industry average is below 20 days).The question is what will he be doing with the money from the settlement?

Office, industrial, hotels, retail, etc.  

Along this train of thought, I've decided to pursue industrial/flex space going forward.

You could reach out to a commercial broker who specializes in Industrial warehouse transactions.

At your age and being new to the industry, keep yourself open to doing any and every task that needs help with in exchange for the opportunity to shadow more experienced agents and learn from them.

The failure rate is very high in our industry. 90% of licensees quit within their first 5 years and I believe we've already lost a decent chunk of our competitors over the last year.

I think the settling foundation could scare off many retail buyers.