You should be able to easily reach a 10% return.

In return I’d love to be able help out if help is ever needed, for example renovating a house (TLC) type of work or anything you could think of.

And if these property looks like it's going to be able to get you the return you want, then I'd say it's worth it.

Commerical properties value add can have much higher returns when done properly. 

Commercial brokers will not return your calls.Partner up with someone more experienced and provide value to him/her. 

There are endless ways to set this up, but the most common that I see is a 1-3% acquisition fee, 1-3% asset management fee, 6-9% preferred return and 60-80% of the ownership equity to the limited partners. 

Your student loan debt at 6% is already at a very high interest rate relative to the expected return on potential investments.

We eventually owned three properties for about ten years At one time I had a rental bringing in a 60% return every month.

If you don't know people and you don't have credit to guarantee them a return on a personal level.

@Marco Campos cashflow is great but look at the metrics such as return on equity.