As of now, I pay a PC guy to implement my software & extract all the info I need (per county).

Read that before you ask someone to mentor you that way you can have a meaningful discussion.By age 25 I expect you to be a full-time Real Estate Investor!

Then you can take away for things you don't need to replace.I would caution new investors not to use this method (and certainly don't assume the $20/sf number is meaningful to anyone other than Justin), but I do the exact same thing in my business.

Or would it be a meaningful benefit for you, and a tolerable risk?

If your rents are, say, $1500, its a lot easier to extract $100 of real cash flow than it is from $500, so this ratio can be lower.

The two are very different investments with different capital requirements, holding strategies, most importantly, exit strategies.For IRR to be meaningful, the properties being compared should be very similar in almost all respect.

Hi Andrew,Thank you for taking time to write a meaningful response.  

Personally, extracting a heavy toll on my parents' cash reserves.

Hi All I extract auctions data from county clerk websites daily.

Any ideas on how to extract the equity from the property for the brothers?