@Paul Fagot - Homesnap is kind of apples and oranges to PR.

Another concern is that yYou're using city boundaries for your data set which is a bit limiting and precludes apples-to-apples comparison across multiple cities.

I also like to keep an eye on affordability as a key metric since it combines incomes, prices, and interest rates all into one ... not that I compare affordability of SF to KC, because that is apples and oranges, but rather SF 2017 affordability vs SF 2006 affordability for example.

If you think some random home in some random city is going to out earn an index fund or Apple or Goog stock ...think again as one was 100% designed to be lived in and the other was 100% designed for investors returns. 

But the basics are you want to compare apples with apples.

Three words. The three words that I am about to type could end up saving you thousands of dollars in wasted money. Here it is, are you sitting down? Run your numbers. Run. your. Numbers. Why? Because sometimes a highe...

Focused on the south metro seeing as I work in apple valley.

Agriculture is the number one industry in PA, lots of apple, peach, corn, and livestock. 

Real estate as a "Massive Wealth" magnet is attractive because most people can wrap their heads around a house, apartment, land, renting, and flipping.

Is he that bad at screening tenants or is this house a magnet for bad apples and what will it cost to improve enough to attract quality people?