Unfortunately, as the letters were machine processed at the USPS, the sorters managed to break up the the tylenol tablets......so the letter recipients were opening their mail to find this suspicious white powder. 

They may be buying opportunistic resulting from distressed situations e.g. partnership breakups, divorces, business failures, etc., or using creative financing to make their deals work.If you're looking through the MLS or having a realtor supply you with product that is on the market then its highly likely you'll find, and it appears you already have, that those deals won't work.So my suggest to you is that if you want to buy property in the Bay Area, and have it cash flow, and have an opportunity to benefit from any capital gain over time, then you need to research how to find opportunistic and value add real estate deals, and how to buy then using creative financing.Do those two things and the world will literally be your oyster!

This will create difficulties in the event of a bad breakup, as one of you will be able to block the sale requiring a partition action in court. 

I am getting in more details, but on the face of it, does this breakup look reasonable to you?

When you say hands on, do you mean I will have to be handy around the properties because vendors will not visit, or will I have to break up incidents and other problems?

Sounds like one option is to break up the package into two smaller packages: 8 conventional financing (keep investor at 10) and 7 commercial financing - thanks Wayne and Steve.

A break up, a lost job etc etc.  

In an effort to keep the responses specific I'm going to break up my forum posts.

Not only is your business life rocked but you then get to come home and hear about it on the personal side.My personal banker over here in Portland we have been doing business for going on our 23rd year.. and so that has led to some interesting conversations over the years.. and his number one issue with a problem loan is usually a partnership break up that is compounded by business where the spouse is also a principal.

I don't know the specifics of the break-up, but even if it was less than friendly, I think this is your best bet to close the chapter as soon as possible.Good luck.