That will give you a percentage return for your money. 2) Calculate your total return on investment (ROI).

If it makes you feel better @Karen Margrave - your "vote percentage" is way higher than mine!

What is your cash return percentage on commercial prices versus residential prices?

A conventional bank, local or not, will only lend a percentage of what it's worth now so you'll cash for down payment and rehab and all holding costs.

Time is a very scarce resource...your overall ROI percentage might be higher with SFR's right now however the total dollar amount of income can be much larger with apartments.

I would guess there is a percentage (maybe 25%) that are going to move out no matter what and another percentage (maybe 25%) that are going to stay no matter what.

I really appreciate your advice.Wholesaling these foreclosures might be more hassle than I first thought.I am going to ask my boss how they feel about maybe referring some of these people to a short sale specialty real estate agency.Hopefully I will be able to negotiate some sort of split percentage of any closed deals with my firm.I don't know..what do you think??

Perhaps the easiest solution will be to record a Quit Claim deed that relinquishes a percentage of ownership from the original purchases and assigns it to your business partner.

Paying a percentage of their monthly MLS membership fee?

Your case seems more complex, how much in percentage do you have in equity on those properties?