A little history: I've owned a century two story home in Orrville, OH for 14 years.

A lot of times these companies make money off people who are for lack of a better word just too damn lazy to figure it out themselves, or just lack the technical knowledge needed in the 21st century to figure it out.

that is the return.. let your tenant pay your house off EVERYTHING ELSE is the BONUS.so for those that bought in the Bay area this turned out to be one of the biggest wealth generators of the 20th century hands down.you bought a home in Cupertino or Palo Alto or any silicon valley Penninsula location in those days and let the tenant pay it off your sitting on 1.5 to 3 million in cash today  CASH EQUITY that is real.. in some Markets you just paid off a home and it never went up might have gone down.. think Detroit  Rochester other rust belt areas.so it depends..

The only percentage that doesn't lie comes from what Albert Einstein considered the greatest invention of the 20th century..."

Horses in Russia - by the thousands - died at the beginning of the 20th century, but they ate hay that was severly contaminated.  

I did mine at Century 21 Real Estate School.

I bank with Alan at the Century location. 

Most often they are clustered together to form neighborhoods around old textile mills and often day from the first half of the 20th century.  

I have seen a lot of people advertise "the deal of the century" and these are properties that new folks get ripped off by.

I do have a job with Century 21 lined up upon completing it as well.