Depending on your neighborhood and tenant profile local companies might outperform national brands or vice versa.

All my other paid services have come in cheaper on the per lead cost and out performed this one in people closing , lead quality and actual some form of lead vetting. 

Sure, there's some variation, but the average strategy produces about the same result across almost the whole US since there are so many investors hunting outperforming markets - they tend to revert to the mean.

My impression has been that if the Bay Area falls significantly, then most of those other hot markets drop quickly behind it.So, if you were someone with absolute perfect timing, maybe the optimal play would have been to get out of the Bay Area a couple years ago, to continue riding the perfect wave upwards in markets that are now outperforming us (and subsequently getting out before the next correction).

Apples and oranges to LTR.Even if you make a bad deal, the STR will far outperform a LTR over the long term.  

It's clear that certain properties in our portfolio are outperforming others.

The property you're looking at should be able to outperform your 401K by a large margin in order to make up for the initial losses.www.20andout.wordpress.com

All things being equal, many west coast coastal cities are going to outperform the median and below median properties in the midwest that get a lot of attention from out of state buyers. 

His Wasilla property has outperformed his Anchorage properties on all fronts.2) It really depends on what your doing with the property.

@Chris Billington I cannot find and period in the history of the last several decades that KC REI has outperformed Denver RE.