I know a 50something year old friend who just left corporate America forcefully and is having the same struggles.I’d suggest to both of you a healthy dose of abundance mindset.

As long as you have a healthy debt to equity ratio, you will be ok.

Not an expert on Texas but my understanding especially with commercial is older type retail centers that are many decades  old used construction techniques and materials that can have foundation issues.The newer properties are engineered in such a way to adjust to soil movement without having huge foundation issues like properties of the past.Everyone needs to check on their own but this is just what I have seen with newer commercial builds in Texas from the purchases.In regards to syndication there are instances where it makes sense.

Its very spotty on whether or not the test comes back positive or negative - two neighbors can have completely different radon levels depending on the soil composition and such things as how well insulated (tightly sealed) the home is. 

Given the rate of rise, a 15% step-down (YES, "step-down" is a FAR more accurate label then "crash") would be a GOOD thing, healthy, it would signal some normalcy, and be the next chapter which will inevitably be followed by next step's up.

I've been listening to some folks that make a compelling case that the US is uniquely equipped to emerge healthy from the next few years.

I believe 3% to be a healthy and sustainable rate of increase.

Scary stuff.For your existing tenant, I would increase rent a healthy amount during the next renewal.One other bit of advice, I would hide your last name on BP so a perspective tenant doesn't see you discussing this.When I was a new landlord, I thought vacancy was the worst thing that could happen.

Seller refuses a soil test to be done.

I also have two little kids (5 and 2) and would love to have more flexibility when it comes to them -- volunteering in their classrooms, taking them to the doctor, staying home with them when they're sick.And here's a weird little tidbit: The doctor who treats me for anxiety thinks leaving teaching and becoming a full-time REI would be great for me and my mental health. I