@Tim Farrell We're looking at investing our first rental property in Reno/Sparks area due to the tech companies (Tesla, Apple and so on) growing their operations in that area.

You guys were talking apples and oranges.

The methodology is the same, so you can really compare apples to apples across Canadian markets.

Apple is putting a cool billion into its new campus up there, and Apple employees would be good tenants. 

Areas in San Bernardino you may consider is the high Desert (Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley).

There are "bad apples" among both.

Comparing benefits of owning real estate personally with owning RE inside of an IRA/401k is like comparing apples and oranges.Hope this helps! 

You aren't really competing because it's comparing apples to oranges. 

Idk if tech is in a bubble or at least nothing close to previous bubble values...lets say on average 2/3s less bubbled values based on earnings for the apples, facebooks, googles, microsofts types.

You're unlikely to get an apples-to-apples comparison if you get responses from people whose CPAs are in New York City or Los Angeles vs somebody in a smaller market.