You could have a 5 cap rate and when you put the numbers together and slice the pie, you may realize that it does not provide 12 - 15% investor return or you have to sacrifice a lot of your equity to meet those returns, in which case its better to not do the deal and walk away.GRM is a more valuable apples to apples comparison which will justify your offer price more in line with reality than speculation. 

@Tim Key  I have had a few bad apples but for the most part they are good.

Love this time of year when the apple harvest is made into fresh apple cider!  

I know it's really hard to find a decent team and in doing my last two houses, I have weeded out a number of bad apples.

One even called umbrella policies a "lawsuit magnet".

Its really apples to oranges to compare them straight across the board

Personally, I would stay away from carpet - it's a real dust magnet.

And then after you run the numbers, realize that you might lose money if your property goes unrented above your vacancy rate, and/or you get a bad apple that destroys your home and decides to never leave and live rent free.

It's a shame.Not being able to import your OWN information makes it tough to compare apples with apples and I guess most will choose the one that's easiest to use.Ah, well.

There are a ton of people buying Google shares or Apple shares instead of utility stocks and nobody is calling them dumb.