You can run a BP calculator on your next deal but I don't know where you can find the equivalent calculator for the later two topics.  

Buying a $21M apartment complex is the real estate equivalent of the NBA in basketball. 

In my area my mortgage, insurance, taxes, all that gravy stuff is equivalent to renting.

@Bryan Wilson Here is the formula I derived for calculating an equivalent rate of return for ONE years contribution over a given time period.y = ((((Pv*(1 + R)^n) / C)^(1 / n)) - 1) *100R is the assumed rate of return.C is your after tax dollars of your contribution (since investing in real estate with after tax dollars).  

:Pros:Cons:            Tenants rent not guaranteed and unreliable           Annual inspections nit picking to find deficiencies            Unauthorised low life family guests           Unauthorised pets           Entitlement attitude           Higher level of management required           Landlord in partnership with governmentWhat is the equivalent of Section 8 in Canada?

Perhaps you should reread the post made just a few responses before yours... in many cases what you have been trying to claim as facts is what I would say is the equivalent of sleep talking... totally irrational.

To get an equivalent return on a taxable investment (30% fed and 5% state taxes and a 7% real return) is $31,000.   

However, his view on not buying houses doesn't make sense for the following reason (I know he's echoing something Robert Kiyosaki said as well so I'm countering some credible voices).Anyway, it costs more to rent an equivalent home than what you would buy. 

Liquidity is basically the financial equivalent of flexibility.   

I just mean in 2000 O-1 pay was 24k/yr starting out, before BAH and BAS,  equivalent to an 8 year E6.