I heard Steve Jobs doesn't like the number 3, so he didn't make it available on any Apple products. ;-)

With buildings you have to compare apples to apples.My 20 unit I own is 5 buildings of quad's.They are 30 years old in an A location.They are town home style when you walk in main level dining,kitchen,1/2 bath,living room,and the upstairs each has a master bedroom with a full bath about 1,200 sq ft in each unit.As tenants have told me they like it because it is more like a house feeling.They like the fact unlike an apartment complex where you have people below you,beside you,back of you,above you where you can hear everything.Also you can't control the tenant upstairs using a cheap hose on a washer/dryer and then having a huge water leak into your unit.There are advantages such as those properties typically have amenities etc.Does this building you are looking at have laundry on site,laundry in the unit,or does the tenant have to go to a coin laundry down the road to do clothes??

And, if I recall, the responses you've gotten in the past were all pretty good.With the myriad of ways to measure investment success, the unlimited number of specific investing situations (investments and investors) and the wide range of investment goals one might have, there's just no apples to apples comparison.

David DuongHi David,I have a pretty good perspective having worked with SunTrust the past 7 years and recently with a Correspondent Lender.I think as they say "it depends on the carpenter not the hammer"I know how SunTrust prices their rates - so when comparing apples to apples I can look at their wholesale rates and I can get one much better rates on my side now.

But if you want to talk pure numbers, apples to apples, you cannot beat the wealth creation of multiplication.

I was able to clearly compare which property was most advantageous to acquire over other properties : apples to apples.  

Apples to apples on the features with the expensive cousins buildium and AF and their support is stellar! 

So I got serious about doing up houses, and we started a direct mail, and lumpy mail (magnets, pens) marketing campaign. 

South of San Francisco is the Peninsula and the South Bay, aka Silicon Valley, which is home to many notable tech companies like Apple, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Oracle, AMD, Adobe, Intel, Netflix, Cisco, HP, EBay, Marvell, Altera, Ericsson, IBM, Hitachi, Kaiser Permanente, KLA Tencor, Qualcomm, Quantum, Xilinx, Tivo…… I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

Small refrigerator magnet, plastic card, very thick business card, etc.