I usually throw cards away when I can’t take notes and almost always forget why I saved them.You can get blank cards 10 to a sheet at Staples that come with simple instructions to call up the standard business card templates in MS Word or Apple Pages.

An investment must stand on its own merit so to compare apples to apples, remove all financing in your calculations and compare each deal as if you were paying 100% cash.Now, to your next question, how do you compete with all cash?

We find people do this even when they subscribe to another product to get a list.Finally, you've mixed some apples and oranges.

Sure, there are plenty of bad Tenants out there but wise Landlords learn how to screen out the bad apples.

But now i see how things work, i was comparing apples and pears there (from the business point)

Thank you all, I'm a nicer guy than I may be perceived to be based on postings in forums, but make no doubt about it, if appropriate action is required toward bad apples, I can be their juicer.

There weren't just a few bad apples, most of the apples were bad and predatory.I realize this may go against the popular beliefs of those looking for other to blame, demonize someone for their constrained freedoms to do just anything they can dream up, but every game has rules, one reason we played games as kids was to understand that we had rules besides having fun.

That is apples and oranges.When evaluating whether it makes sense to put retirement savings into real estate, you need to compare how the retirement savings will perform as compared to if it was invested in conventional financial products.Many smart investors diversify their tax-sheltered IRA or 401k into solid, income producing assets such as real estate or private mortgages and end up with much better results for their future.

How bout these apples? 

@John MoreyI think those 3 are a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison.Nearly every credit report uses data from all or some of the Big 3 credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian & TransUnion).Of the 3 you mentioned only one of them (as far as I know) is directly affiliated with a major credit bureau TransUnion (SmartMove).Of the 3 major credit bureaus I personally think that TransUnion has the best information, service and people in the industry.For these reasons our company decided to partner with them.