I very much like this concept and hope it takes hold. I will venture that every "buy" opportunity is going to have very personalized circumstances, so trying to develop a guidebook may be very difficult at first. However if we share the details of what did and did not work we will start to get a feel for how to evaluate the jobs. I have done some of these type of ventures with "silent partners" that just put up the cash to buy, I handled to actual work/transport/sales. I usually paid a 20% return on the "buy" money. Other times I have turned "whales" over to larger outfits for a 50/50 split.