If you split the difference, you end up with 50 percent on average.p124, Steve Berges, “The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildingsâ€, published December 20, 2004 by Wiley.Dave Lindahl also mentions this as a rule of thumb.

What's published in the first link I posted is much more recent.

Whenever the vendee in a land contract, or other persons entitled by law to receive notice of the forfeiture of the same, shall be absent from the state of Michigan, or concealed therein, or when the whereabouts of such person cannot be determined after diligent search and inquiry, it shall be lawful for the person giving such notice of forfeiture, to publish the same 3 successive times at weekly intervals in some newspaper printed and circulating in the county where such property is situated, if there be one printed and circulating in said county; and in case there be no newspaper printed and circulating in said county, then in some newspaper published in an adjoining county and circulating in the county where such property is situated.CHAPTER 554 REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY NOTICE OF FORFEITURE OF LAND CONTRACT 554.302 Notice of land contract forfeiture; proof.

Vollucci, is considered to be one of the foremost authorities on real estate taxation and investing and has authored books in these fields published by John Wiley & Sons of New York.

The Washington Post recently published an article outlining four reasons why single family home investments are better than apartment complexes.

I've got probably 10-15 BP Podcasts under my belt, plus a few other REI podcats; I've read 2 BP published books so far, working on #3 right now.

I don't know how reliable that data is since typical mom and pop do not publish to the MLS, but using that information and checking Zillow and a couple of other sites puts me right on target.

I'm convinced that, until they make an internet connected submeter (that can simply glob onto a wifi connection) that just publishs usage (and doesn't try to bill people), there will be no cost effective solution for small multis.  

The community and region will have published development plans so it is not like anyone is hiding the information.

What i wish was that local municipalities like the Town of Hempstead would publish a list of homes that had many violations or that were declared unlivable, so that buyers like me could go find the owners, buy them and fix them up.