If you believed the absolute ceiling on Apple was $500/share, it would make no financial sense to buy it for $501/share.

Nothing wrong with either thing but it's like comparing apples to oranges. 

One neighbor recently bought a barn type building that I bet he spent >$90k on rehab/septic/landscaping then another $35k for foreshore reclamation.  

Among many other issues, we found that instead of paying for a trash pickup service, the tenants had been storing all their trash in the barn on the same property.

Here in Pittsburgh new investments by Google, Apple, Facebook and Autodesk is a true testament to the growing infrastructure here.

I would intern at what ever real estate companies your interested in.My daughter was interested in finance.. and she interned during collage with a high level appraisal company that did apprasing for emanate domain cases.. and she worked on the one in Napa CA were the state and city bought out a big swatch of the napa river for flood control project and many business had to be relocated from hotel to shopping center to car dealer all of them needed to be valued.. it was high level work she enjoyed it.she then went on to graduate top of her class at Davis CA.. in managerial economics degree and promptly got snapped up my Intel after offers from Apple and Micro soft.now 14 years later she is a SEnior controller and a Dave Ramsey disciple which means at her age home just about paid for 2 kids in grade school and NO debt and a ton of savings and max's out her 401k.. she has little interest in real estate she owns one rental but only rents it to family. that was her path.  

Really apples and oranges. 

@Ian Barnes, agreed, that’s why I told her to watch out. 

The land has an ancient cabin and a semi modern barn that I want to live in / Renovate / Hold .

To calculate "Net Return" as NOI/DP is IMO mixing apples and oranges.