And even an estimate will get you close given the others are going to be almost dead on).My FIRST income property was by accident (a townhome).  

In the book Millionaire Real Estate Investor, the authors provide a handy chart talking about levels of return (ie 1-4% dead money, 5-7% safe money, etc.) which is why I am curious to see what others use for that calculation.

I've lived in Pittsburgh since 2007 and I would best characterize this city as one where out-of-state investors ride in breathing fire at high noon, but slink out of in the dead of night grimly determined never, ever, ever to discuss the shaved orangutan they woke up next to.

Risk didn't come out until the 50s - Hitler was long dead or living in Argentina, depending on who you believed.

I have yet to have a real person share real numbers and do better.I do agree with you about avoiding dead equity, especially with the current low interest rates.

However, you need to protect assets in the world today and keeping them separate is critical asset protection, therefore, your counsel's concept of asset protection is dead on!!!

First problem is that their opperators arent trained to stay on script and that they paraphrase too much.Secondly if an operator isnt available the call goes to music without say anything, no welcome message at all, and a caller can be listening to dead air for minutes without an answer.

To me, they are dead in the water.Typically, when such an ambiguity is the crux of a court action, the court rules against whoever drafted the ambiguous clause.  

I brought over electric space heaters as soon as I knew it was dead.

The city would have bulldozed the place and there would have been a cost the city would have incurred and would not collect since it was against a dead person that had no other assets.We fixed it, saved the city additional costs and brought the house to a place that is now a good property and tax base for them.