Value like the ATT mentioned upthread pays now but is not likely to appreciate much, , while for decades no one had ever gotten a dividend from Apple but had made tremendous amounts of appreciation. 

The substantial boost to our income and the fact that most tenants are good, reasonable people are the two pieces that keep us holding on when a "bad apple" falls through. 

Turnover costs are minimized in some ways, but if she left some of the stuff I would fix is stuff I will do anyway in the next year or two with her or without there so it is already spent costs. your talking apples and oranges compared to rentals in the mid west which are plentiful.. its not high demand low vacancy west coast. could not be farther from reality..   

While I have not confirmed the site on my PC, my Mac or my iPhone, the format clearly appears very differently on my iPad.Humans resist change.

If this interests me, then I dive into the nitty gritty details and data fields to flush out the actual apples to apples comps.

Be sure to comp out individual properties to ensure you are comparing apples to apples.

You would also need to build a model for comparing apples to oranges.

Make sure you are bidding "apples for apples".

@Ann Howell - I am very sorry to hear of your ordeal.Actually, this is the third horror post about Birmingham property management companies that I have responded to today.My theory is that there are a few bad apples that are doing disservice to other honest and hard working property managers of good character in Birmingham.Thanks for exposing these evil doers, so that other RE investors will stay away from them.

Putting dog faces overlapping a human one and having an app do design for you are more like apples and avocados.