@Max Bellino For smaller properties like your 2–4 unit multifamily buildings, an online cost segregation study is a quicker and more cost-effective option, providing sufficient accuracy for straightforward properties.

Purchase price: $690,000 Cash invested: $172,500 Took a gamble on a larger single family home in an up and coming master planned community.

Each market, each submarket and each mall will dictate the use of this space.I don't think online shopping, per se, is killing malls.  

There is a gamble there that the second appraisal comes in at or below the first.

At any rate it is possible, but depending on your appraisal it could be a gamble

It is not very difficult or complicated to evaluate commercial real estate, there are plenty of good books available that can teach you how, textbooks, online courses, community college classes, even excellent youtube videos etc, and it is actually quite enjoyable in the process to learn.

:Syndication multi-family investments are riskier and have less upside than gambling in Las Vegas.

this is only a good idea if you have reason to believe that the area will be appreciating quickly, which is called speculation and akin to gambling not investing. me personally, I would rather put my money on black than bank on market appreciation. negative cash flow rentals are a time suck and money suck.

Also, to track spending habits - just had a prospect withdraw their application when we asked why they were spending half their income on gambling websites.

I think it's a gamble for someone 2000 miles away - could do well or badly.