To answer your questions, I am not naive enough to expect this, but I am naive enough to not know the answer to this question, and ask it in this forum.I do not do this at my job, but that's an apples-to-oranges comparison, as I work a salaried position that affords me a high degree of autonomy and flexibility in deciding when I work and working at irregular hours does not equate to more money for my firm or myself.

Apple Valley rd.  

Very good tax climate, and landlord friendly combined with strong economic growth with tech companies like Apple and google building data centers, Tesla is building the semi-truck factory and a exodus from CA of people all point to strong signs of appreciation. 

I believe we have underwriters in this forum - just wondering how underwriters analyse their COMPS even after we listed the best 3 as Apple to Apple - though more than 1 mile BUT  within the same market bcos most COMPS considering SOLD properties around your subject property would be the same as those that needs renovation.

The tech and manufacturing jobs are moving from CA with Tesla building Semi trucks and Google and Apple building data centers. 

It's a way to compare apples to apples for the current situation; how to squeeze more juice from the investment.

Make sure to compares apples to apples for the current condition of your unit.

Are there any specific considerations related to barns, pastures, or riding arenas that we should keep in mind?

Do one task at a time in each app so you can compare apples to apples.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.

You have to know the local market and the properties themselves to be able to tell what is an apples to apples comp and what is apples to oranges, which is really hard or impossible to do virtually.