With all that being said, it is human nature to look over at the next persons food and wonder :)

A loss would set your plans back or take you out of the game.Business situations plod along pretty tame...until questions about money surface...at which point it gets serious and comes down to being within the scope of the laws (i's dotted and t's crossed). 

Here are the reasons.One, the additional income will negatively affect the low income tenant who lives on welfares including food stamp, earn income credit and obama care etc. 

Judging by how often I see ads from crowdfunding sites, they're pouring a lot into customer acquisition, and eventually we'll see a wave of consolidation once folks start burning through their funding (that is not unlike what's already happened or is happening in areas like food delivery and home services). 

When the house sells, they split the profits or losses (50/50).

To work full time somewhere, I would go into retail but you need to be 16 so fast food it is!

You can get appreciation in a-b areas, but it's harder to get the rent rolls to cover your expenses.Rent rolls are higher in c-d areas due to the higher risk: turnover, vacancies, property loss, evictions.Rent rolls in a-b areas don't have a risk premium because you have less issues and more people would rather own than rend in those areas.

Back of the envelope math:$800 rentLess 7% vacancy & collection loss~$744 net rentLess 40% expenses (pick appropriate %)Equals $446 net income per unit/mth or $5,356 annualIf land plus building plus interest and carry costs to get leased up total $1.5m, that's $68k/unit. $5,356 / $68k = 7.9% yield on costsIf cap rates on similar product in the area are equal to your yield then you didn't create any value for the effort and risk it took to develop from ground up.

No reason not to invest in RE, just food for thought to put a different spin on. 

Wanted to get some opinions on this....

I'm looking at a CRE deal in the Downtown area of my town; great foot traffic, historic, etc.

It's currently set-up as multiple office spaces for rent and not positively cash ...