- Loss of use is typically a percentage of the dwelling and is capped off at 12 or 24 months.

I've moved a number of times over the years and while I know a lot of people, unfortunately only a small percentage of them are in the area I'm now living and working.  

Is there a general percentage rule-of-thumb to follow?

No matter how many units there will probably be a percentage of vacancies.

When you do your taxes your percentage of the unit is not able to be written off for the common costs of the entire building.

To me it seems the housing authority is attempting to make it more difficult for landlords to rent homes to section 8 tenants in this town (the town has a higher percentage  of vouchers then other towns).  

Two questions for you 1) do you recommend working with a friend in this capacity (not anyone I am dating or have dated in the past, we're just two professionals from the same hometown ).  2) After paying him as a contractor for whatever projects he works on as part of the rehab,  what percentage of my profits should I pay him to be my project manager? 

I would like to try to put together an option to purchase the property as is, of course after doing all the proper due diligence. ( I suspect that much of the electrical and plumbing is shot...lots of work to bring it up, but it could be a beautiful place) Can anyone point me to a basic investor formula to evaluate a reasonable offer for this type of property as is, and determine what the percentage and length of an option should be?  

From this data, you can utilize a website bestplaces.net that will give you a breakdown of the percentage of homes that sold, in various price ranges, for a given zip code.

For those of you who rent out properties, what percentage of the time would you say you're dealing with a good tenant versus a bad one?