Please crunch the numbers and understand your Cash-on-cash return before you sign any papers.

Crunch some numbers and find out.

I would recommend finding that out first before spending too much time crunching numbers.

Keep crunching numbers on properties to find the number you'll be comfortable with and make offers.

Non-commercial residential is not always going to There is recent research paper from Fed saying that in near future return for S&P would be 2% only due to credit crunch and less corporate profitability.

I'm not sure how large you're looking to scale up but this would be a minimal crunch to your longer term asset growth offset by a larger and more reliable annual ROI - and I imagine you could easily replace that 10-15% with a well timed "replacement" purchase every time you do have a sale go through.Lots of options.  

The property would be conveyed to me as vacant and after crunching all my numbers over and over again it seems like I will be about breaking even on day 1 with everything rented.

I'm in the process of checking and crunching numbers on a turnkey property in Marygrove Detroit. 

But I need to practice crunching numbers and seeing the big picture so I can find good dealsAre there other free substitutes  to BP's calculators?

Affordability provides context for how high the market ceiling is; at the end of the day, prices can only go as high as people can afford to pay, so higher affordability in a market with strong fundamentals suggests room for sustained price appreciation.After crunching the numbers, here are our top twenty markets (of the originally filtered 120) sorted by EMS.