This is also the "rate" you get while you are saving for your down payment.Mortgage requires 25% down, 20 year note, 8.47% interest (avg for last 30 years)Goal is $100/door cash flow to start so CAP rate is 10.2%S&P 500 Compounded Annual Growth Rate is 11.4% (avg for last 30 years) and you don't pay any fees.You get a 75% match of your savings in the 401(k)All rental cash flow is plowed back into the business (just like reinvesting the dividends/gains received in the 401(k)) to make this an apples-to-apples comparison.After 10 years:The 401(k) would supply you with $843 of monthly incomeRentals only give you $371 of monthly incomeAfter 20 years:The 401(k) would supply you with $3,886 of monthly incomeRentals supply you with $4,209 of monthly incomeAfter 30 years:The 401(k) would supply you with $13,963 of monthly incomeRentals supply you with $34,426 of monthly incomeWhat's really cool is the Net Worth of the investor.

I work for Apple Inc. :)

I currently have an eBay store where I buy and sell apple products and turn a profit so I already have the "buy low, sell high" mentality.

So you can't compare the two directly because they are not comparing apples to apples.

Updated/rehabbed verses 1990's........apples to oranges, and the consumers will know it.  

This means it still takes (a lot) of time to manually stick all numbers in Excel.Individual Results May Vary…While I hope my numbers will give the reader some indication as to what things cost, it is important to keep the old idiom about “comparing apples to oranges” in mind.

If you can get people to show up to UC Merced you can get them to go anywhere...So while that doesn't exactly provide an apples to apples comparison to Georgia you probably know how Georgia, Georgia State, etc. are doing when it comes to enrollment.  

Statistically, a handful of those are bound to be bad apples.

Compare apples to apples and let the numbers speak for themselves.

Lets judge the carriers based on their individual merit and not unfairly judge all of them based on a few bad apples.