You need to start drilling down a little deeper into what can and has happened when someone does some predatory, uncommon, unusual, convoluted transaction that they got someone involved in. :)

It's not uncommon for 3 out of 5 to no show, so I tell them if they don't call me 1 hour ahead of time, I'm not going to be there.

It might be a good tool for establishing replacement value for a home only.Example, it was not uncommon to appraise a double-wide home in a park that sold for $25K and the NADA 'booked' out at $45K.

But, I do foreclosure work with my law firm so I can share some info from that perspective.First, and maybe you already know this because you have been attending over the last few months, but it's not uncommon for auctions to get called off at the last minute.

If strictly a financial partner, then simply a 60/40 or 50/50 split is not uncommon depending on what else they may want to bring to the table and are you looking at their financial resources to think how you two could grow this into a bigger business partnering on bigger deals down the road?  

It's not even uncommon to go w/interest rate only loans even in today's market w/options to lock since we still are getting very attractive ratesBottomline, when you state commercial, that's too general.  

Your situation is not that uncommon.

It never ceases to amaze me how uncommon this skill set is in the industry.  

Not that you are a charity, but if you do it right--even with a profit motive-- others will benefit.You generally get some control over your success, something getting more uncommon if your efforts are lost in a bureaucracy someplace, public or private sector. 

So it's not uncommon to send 1,000 and get no deal, but I'm really surprised at the low response rate.