Well my first foray into paysite ownership was quite recently. I purchased an affiliate program with 9 deluxepass paysites. The sites came approximately with 125 recurring members. The revenues per month for these sites were roughly $1200-1500 a month (mostly from rebills).
Since I purchased the affiliate program, I have had my designer make 4 new deluxepass sites plus hosted galleries. Also I have added an additional server for free hosting for movies for my affiliates.
Now I am just starting to send my own traffic to these sites so hopefully over the next couple of months we should double to triple our members base and pick up some good affiliates.
So far so good, I have invested a reasonable amount of money and should hope to turn a profit on the amount invested by December/January.
Wish me luck
DH