My story is funny.I had a thousand shares of pre-pre-split apple stock that had been meandering around $12 for two years.

If you are not going through a detailed interview and trying to compare you are likely comparing apples and oranges.

Rather than talking about the yesterday's winners like the Bay area (Like an Apple Stock trading at $100/share), shouldn't we discuss the future up and coming Apple in real estate? 

I am currently located in Hoboken, NJ right outside the Big Apple.

Be sure to ask for the full MLS listing sheet however as they will usually have a lot more details about the properties that will help you make an apples to apples comparison.

Home office and tax preparer are apples and oranges in my mind.

I may be comparing apples to oranges to bannas as note investing has a commercial property aspect that multi family residential does not.

In order to do that you have to know what they need.Research what that person wants and then utilize that information to magnetize the incentivized sellers that have the property type you're looking for and to find the tenants who want to live in that area.2.

@Brian Pleshek  you are your own turn key company  albeit you did it for just one property.anyone is free to buy their own deals then do their own rehab.. its called value add.. you work for it.Turnkey is buying from a rehabber regardless if they are a quote un quote turn key company they are simply rehabbers..they put up the money to buy the asset.. and paid for holding costs.. they put up the money or borrowed it to rehab it.. and they are a for profit business so no they are not going to sell it to you for exactly what they have in it.. your comparing apples to oranges.Just like when I sell new construction we make anywhere from 50 to 200k profit per house.. can you go buy your own lot.. get your own financing and hire your own GC or do your own GC yourself sure you can and you can save the profit your going to pay a building company... happens everyday.Same with rehabbers that sell retail.. retail buyers want it done.. many time they cant get rehab loans they don't know how to.. and in many areas of the country unlike were your at were price points are so very low.. not every has 300 to 500k to buy a rehabber house then sink another 100k into cash and then finally refi.Lost of people can do what you do which is basically use 100k or less to get a house all up and running. 

Now if that house had an amazing view, backyard  etc. that made it stand out that is different but I am doing an apples to apples comparison.The 185,000 house the buyers would want to get for 170,000 because when they go through all that headache of moving and fixing the place up they want additional equity for their labor and time in addition to the raw materials costs to fix the place up.This key piece of information is generally lost on the sellers.I would get 2 or more additional estimates of the 6,200 to see if someone can do the same scope of work for a better price.