You could probably name comparably appreciated markets on one hand.We take a holistic approach though as you can see, so pure appreciation is not everything.Also, comparing Apples to Apples (California to Oklahoma in your data) its 476% to 424%.  

It's a way to compare apples to apples for the current situation; how to squeeze more juice from the investment.

Property management contract: Includes provisions for scaling fees based on deal volume and many other techniques promoted in the BiggerPockets community.Lease agreement: Includes terms needed to ensure that your rents increase with each lease renewal.Contractor agreement: Includes bonus payments and penalty fees for late work to help hold your contractors accountable.Contractor Scope of work document - give this to your contractor when asking for your bid so that all your bids are itemized and can be compared apples to apples.

Hello all, I have been a PO for the last five years in the big apple (NY).

Most people are good people, it's always a few bad apples that spoil the bunch. 

Also have 30-year amort and IO options

Compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges.

Now we’re considering a cash out refi of $140-160k, pay the rest of the downpayment on the new build out of pocket, and holding on to this NW Austin house given the insane appreciation of this neighborhood in particular (next to Domain, close to Apple campus, lots of outdated homes that are now being flipped).

To answer your questions, I am not naive enough to expect this, but I am naive enough to not know the answer to this question, and ask it in this forum.I do not do this at my job, but that's an apples-to-oranges comparison, as I work a salaried position that affords me a high degree of autonomy and flexibility in deciding when I work and working at irregular hours does not equate to more money for my firm or myself.

I agree with @Mario Dattilo and Roger D Jones.I think the only thing that I would draw emphasis on is what Mario said because unless it has a separate tax ID number it is not an apples-to-apples comparable.