You've probably heard of house hacking. Buy a fourplex, live in one unit, let the rent cover your mortgage.
We needed an office space, but not one this big. Then this whole building came up and we bought it. Four offices in here, most of my team is remote so we didn't need a lot of room. Tenant rent and studio revenue cover the mortgage. I call it office hacking. We get our space for free.
Same idea as the fourplex. Different asset, same math. You don't find deals, you create them.
Send this to the friend who keeps saying they'll buy an office space someday instead of now.