You can find $250-$300k duplexes in Hemet, San Jacinto, Apple valley.

Perhaps you sold your Apple or Amazon stock to get the initial $100K; that passive gain would be offset (no tax). 

It helps to work with a broker who can make proper apples to apples comparisons.

Biggest thing with this approach is to make sure you're communicating the same scope of work to the different companies so that your bids will be apples to apples.

I know I am comparing orange to apple but I am curious to know if any local investor have any input to this.  

The annualized return is highly speculative, so you can really only use CoC for an apples to apples against stocks.

I'm talking about dividend paying stocks such as Google, Apple or Microsoft.

I use a mobile app called OKUPIED, which I think is only available on the Apple Store, but compared to all other ones I have tried it is by far the simplest to use and their support is on point when you need something. 

So it apples to the funding fee?

They buy a security and are no more involved in the business than is someone who buys $50k of stock in Apple.