I still use Aperture from Apple - even though they stopped supporting it 5+ years ago. 

There are a number of local suppliers who inflate their prices and give discounts to contractors, but in the end this is a mental trojan horse game.I think over the long haul using Lowes or HD's "pro" programs coupled with discounts from their CCs or gift cards (from a site like Raise or CardCash) will lead to the lowest costs for a given project comparing apples to apples.

@Seth Borman what market have you apples this to?

If you look at many companies and their logo, they've gone to simple..even the iPhone and stuff like that..all the apps and everything has gone to simple.

Sorry just realized my iPhone wrote Stephen instead of Steven.

In the fall if you had antiquing and apple picking and all the usual small town activities to drive in the tourists in the winter time skiing, icefishing and all those related activities.

And with the advent of the INternet  and to a great degree what is talked about on BP and supported by folks like you, it has created a mass of newbie non educated in the ways of real estate and some down right crooks out there scamming the public.. its the bad apples that are spoiling the bunch.. the state is responding to complaints from sellers not from realtors... or the real estate industry..

.$100,000 (purchase price) x 100% (appreciation)= $200,000 / 7 years = $14285.71 / 12 = 1,190.47 (per month appreciation) + $200 (monthly cash flow) = $1,390.47 (average monthly appreciation)If you do this to every property you can compare apples to apples.And before anyone rips this apart the cash flow already would take into account opperation costs like managment, maintance, taxes, insurance, vacancy rate, average rehab cost, etc.Also keep in mind that there is a 10 conforming loan limit.

Plus you had to wait three hours to purchase a new I-Phone.

Also, we've just come out with new versions of REST and RESTw/U for iPhone and iPod Touch.