Assuming a required rate of return of 5% (comparable to high-yield savings or a CD), the deal would need to yield a total CoC return of 10% (since everything is split 50/50).I'm stuck because while playing around with numbers, achieving this return seems improbable if not unrealistic.

Quote from @Arsen Atanasovski: Hello Sunny,All honesty Bethune is a class D even the outskirts of Bethune are all C/D, Harmony, Fitzgerald, shoolcraft, Hubbell and Schulze.

Plus there is so much competition from tons of people trying to get into wholesaling, not to mention the big players already getting the lions share.

Just depends on how much you want to cash flow, your down payment, loan type... and what areas you're open to (in terms of neighborhood ratings - C/D areas cash flow well but the trade off is a higher chance that rehab is needed between tenants).

After a couple deals you do like that with a key player, tell them that from now on, you would like to manage the project yourself.

You can do this with people at church, people at a ball game, your hairdresser, anyone who is getting garbage returns in the stock market or a CD.

You could buy a CD right now at 5% and make a better return and that is a VERY conservative choice with much more advantageous options available.

At the current moment, I am following option 3, I have placed the money in different investments, cd's, annuities, mm, etc. 

That way i see it unfold in real time, I understand the necessary systems to have in place, the right players to have in my team, etc.

The average annualized (investment weighted) yield has been 30.9% (This is like the bank CD's APY).