Lots of investors are jumping into I/O options right now for many reasons. 

Nevada landlord friendly, low taxes, strong job and population growth with Tesla, Google, Apple in the area.

Reason I say recently is because of house prices, I want to compare apples to apples.

There are other factors like depreciation limiting your taxable income that affect your IRR, but apples to apples, I would rather own an oil pipeline ETF that has a solid yield of 6.8% and doesn't involve tenants and toilets. 

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.

The back yard hosts 2 apple trees, one pear tree, a small cherry tree, a small hawthorn tree, three large pine trees, a large spruce tree, 2 large (beautiful) maple trees and a smaller maple tree, a large walnut tree, a large horse chestnut tree, and a fairly big lilac bush.

Hi Apples,Welcome to the group.

Unfortunately Texas is not a Kaiser State.But in my opinion cost is not apples to apples with Kaiser, due to how comfortable they are to deal with (In California).They are kind of their own thing, with all of the big hospitals and etc...Good Luck!

This allows me to get pricing estimates for identical work between each of the contractors so I can compare apples to apples.

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.