@Amber Koontz yeah I find myself eliminating things a lot for the location even though the numbers otherwise work, because that is subjective and most of the time you can tell from Google street view or the listing photos that is generally my first step.

Best so far is in Mesa AZ - I bought a 4 bed 2 bath for $100 using Subject To and put $500 into clean up - got $25,000 down from a tenant buyer.

Unfortunately, I cannot touch most of that money so instead of making 25%+ tax-deferred returns in real estate, I'm subjected to lousy volatile Wall Street returns.  

Obviously not a popular subject here on BP, or in general, but it is one of importance nonetheless, I believe.This stems from my very first listing appointment ever and a FSBO who asked about any other names I had & stated they google searched me. 

What about distributions?

With our investors we find that most would prefer to have a fund with multiple assets where these individual assets can be sold over time and 1031’d into more or larger assets and distributions continue to grow over time.

I also wanted to experience the process of combining multiple pools of money from different people, BUT, I imagine we would just form an llc and use that to purchase the property with the distributions set up in the Joint Venture jargon. 

I recently took an early distribution of funds from a traditional IRA to use towards the down payment for a second - home mortgage. 

Thank you  Assuming you took sold comps within 1-2 miles, 0-6 months (depending on how hot your market is) of the subject properties.

I know the deals we would look to invest the capital in and the target returns we would like from those deeals as well as the target returns we would like to distribute back to our overseas investors I just need a little help getting this moving in the right direction.