I think there is an appeal to a certain degree of having plenty of closet’s.

My wife is finishing her degrees at UW and I will be commuting early in the morning to the ferry.

Somethings not clicking thou, I can almost feel it, like I'm one contact off or one degree of separation away from meeting the right person.

They’re a little more spendy, but they’ll operate at 100% efficiency down to 5 degrees ambient outdoor temp.

These all can make a difference, but the degree to which properties become comparable depends on a number of variables. 

After you review a few, put together a list appropriate for your local.One area that you need to be more aware of is the degree of turnover.

Now my friends with degrees(I dont) are scratching their heads at how I have the aility to have 5 properties before 30.

We had 6” of snow down and it was 0 degrees out.

Best of luck on your path to a Masters Degree in real estate

One caveat to that is a highly skilled RE investor will use leverage to the infinite degree but you have to be really smart and understand that when the market changes things could get hairy.