I ran the numbers on the SFR which came out to between 12%-20% return depending on expenses.  

first mistake, however it still profited. the house was purchased for 218k and sold for 270k. i bought a sailboat on the east coast, taught myself to sail. then took off to the Bahamas till covid ended. although the life was nice, i wasn't growing and that bothered me. i recently moved back to California and have been on the grind looking for deals. i found a couple units that are cheaper on the list than most, i ran my numbers. 

As soon as you start adding percentages you incentivize gross inequalities that will exacerbate over time and eventually result in full scale cultural divisions.

I think I ran a calculator on several properties and they are all a pretty big "NO".

thays what I've been looking into, there were a couple deals I ran the numbers on that just won't work so we didn't pursue them!

Let's look at some examples of the market and the numbers that I ran so you can see what kind of returns you can expect:I took a look at a  property at in Wyoming ( a suburb of Grand Rapids on the SW side).  

I ran into a BP Podcast one day and I am very interested in real estate!

I ran comps for this property, along with my fiancé who is an Agent, and we seen comps to support the purchase price of $298k and also an ARV of about $550k.

Biggest issue is cultural - they don't understand what is "normal" in the states! 

The attached is an example of numbers I ran for a client interested in house hacking.