But not generally IRR.Also, if you’re comparing potential investments using IRR, then of course make sure your comparing apples to apples in which IRR you’re using.

You pointed out that combining apples with donuts do not produce meaningful (or valid) numbers.Let's start with the declining sales statement.

So if you are looking apples to apples, the work is the same.  

I wish I could help but this is all I could come up with: Advertising: Appraisers/Attorneys/CPAs Bandit Signs Being Transferred Best Offer Billboards/Bus bench or stop Bird Dogs Brainstorm with Team Bring All Offers Brochures/Flyers Bulletin Boards Business Cards Car Signs - Magnetic Career attire Desperate - Must Sell Direct Mail Door Hangers Drive the Area Finder's Fee offerred Friends - Tell all you Buy!

@Matthew Mello if I were you, I'd try to do an "apples to apples" comparison between the two alternatives you're most interested in.For example, pick a neighborhood in Providence and one in Fall River, and then find a 3-family on the market in each, with the same # of bedrooms and roughly same square footage, roughly same parking situation, etc.Then start working up a spreadsheet of income and expenses for each.

Your headwind here is trying to educate your prospective tenants that those costs are included in the rent, but the sad truth is most of your prospects won't both to read your ad that closely before moving on.I would absolutely keep the pricing structure the same your competition, so your customers can compare apples to apples.Also, if you include those as fixed costs in your rent, prepare to have those expenses go up, since your tenants are not paying for them directly and will not be very conservation minded on someone else's dime. 

The barrier to entry is so low and there are so many, that it is just law of averages that you get poor quality bushels of them with the few good apples in the mix.I find many of them to be rude and inconsiderate as well, some of them think they know it all too, but then I have plenty who are top notch, do their job with a smile and are very helpful, those are the ones you want to use.

Just want to try to compare apples to apples.

LeeHi Lee,For some investors (with a buy and hold mentality) the cycle issue is handled by increasing the down payment (decreasing the loan amount) to (hope to) be able to ride out the cycle's possible rent drops and vacancy increases and still hold onto the property.Very strategically chosen assets, bought by someone who can handle possible negative cash flow or possible needed large cash injections until the cycle perks up limits (some of) the risk of this type of purchase.Probably easier fruit to pick.Both a fruit and coffee reference were worked into this, because if you mishandle it, or miscalculate it that's all you might be living on; green apples and coffee.Good Luck!

I’m focusing on Apple TV here since it’s the most powerful hardware of the steaming set-top boxes which, when enrolled under some form of mobile device management, can be auto-reset and reconfigured after each guest checks out.