I evaluated all my student loans and found it saves me a few hundred dollars and a few months over 6 years of paying them to pay off the highest interest loans first then move that "cashflow" to lower interest loans.

You would use the same techniques to evaluate them. 

I think you should re evaluate your position on why your not willing to utilize those options. 

Any specific property you are looking at, good tools to evaluate the area are crimereports.com and trulia.com

@Erik Johnson That sounds like a logical and simple way to evaluate the profit share.

Specifically, the Winthrop factors have been established and used by the courts to determine and evaluate intent.

How does someone quantify and evaluate the risk involved with this kind of opportunity?

I have evaluated this and it seems like a good deal.

Hello BP'ers I was wondering if you could evaluate my plan for my future first two investments.I want to take out an FHA loan on a duplex, live in one half for a little bit.

Unlike a conventional commercial loan, SBA lenders tend to evaluate the strength of the business moreso than the value of the property.