My wife and I are new to taking action with REI, I've been learning for about 8 months now but want to take quantifiable action.

No, there is no way to quantify that flipping is a whole lot easier with less headaches than renting.

The upside with commercial properties is that the value is based on the income, so it's more straightforward to quantify. 

If your books are kept up to date and properly maintained you will be able to calculate whichever ROI you are looking to quantify at any time.

How would you quantify that? 

Unlike the stock market, there isn't a great way to quantify risk in real estate.

You can quantify the risk on a smaller scale and get immense tax benefits.

The value contribution indicated is based on a survey of real estate agents and is not actually based on anything quantified from market data. 

If you are willing to house hack, that one choice will put you so far ahead of most investors acquiring their first property, you can hardly quantify it. 

Picture belowWhen to execute exit strageties or refi optionsBP member input to identify potential options in the given areaBasically how do we take these models, consolidate all the quantifiable data and subjective data from BP members to identify opportunities.