It's not an apples-to-apples comparison. 

Growth - NV is still friendly to business and a lot of companies (Tesla, Google, Apple, etc) have moved their distribution, manufacturing, data centers here in recent years and there’s more to come.

Look at Apple, they sell the IPhone.

Regarding my time, I conservatively estimate about 60 hours per year spent on the home, and value my time at $150/hr (what I can make spending my time elsewhere).Here's my financials spreadsheet I maintain for this property:Costs/Expenses/Equity ContributionsAnnual ExpensesTaxes3700Insurance1000Maintenance/Repairs2500Interest Expense (3.875% rate at current loan balance of $168k)6510Total Costs13710Rental Income21000Net Income7290Annual Appreciation (assuming 4%)12000Net Gain Including Annual Appreciation19290Annual Time spent on home -maintenance, finding tenants, dealing with city, etc. (60 hours x $150/hr)-9000Net Gain Less Value of Time10290Equity in Home (Approximate market value of $350k less loan balance of $162k less realtor selling fees of $15k, less seller's side transfer tax of $7k166,000ROI Analysis - Includes Opportunity Cost of Selling HomeNet Gain compared to Equity in Home11.62%Apples-to-apples comparison with passive investment (factoring in value of my time above)6.20%

This is not to say that there are not "bad apples" in the basket, but communicating these issues is how to elevate the situation.

Hello, new to Bigger Pockets but I had a previous rental near Fort Riley KS in Manhattan (The Little Apple) Kansas basically the renters just stopped paying rent for three months before deploying which is meh. 

I would open up a separate personal checking account and run all your rental transactions through that account.Do the same with a credit card.Open up a online storage such as dropbox, google drive or apple drive and save your business receipts there.

If you expect Apple, Google, Facebook, NVidia, PayPal, SalesForce and their stocks to fall by 30- 40% next year, expect the bay area RE market to soften quickly.

Look at the pictures your realtor uses ..if they dont apple to you then why would they to anyone else ..

I walked a couple of investors a few weeks ago when I started to try to penetrate the residential market, there are three issues that I encountered, 1) most of them don't know what they want, not even a floor plan with scope of work, which renders the bids from us contractors like comparing an orange, an apple and a rotten grape. 2) They want the best contractor with the cheapest price, the best quality and to be done yesterday.