For instance if you calculate 10% appreciation per year in real estate and 10% gain on a stock over 10 years, your total return in real estate is 500% compared to 100% in the stock market.

I was told the reason evictions can take months is that landlords will attempt to do evictions on their own, and forget to cross a few t's and dot a few i's, or otherwise not follow the law properly.Although several hundred dollars seems extreme compared to $30 or so on your own, an experienced eviction attorney can get the job done quickly and relatively painlessly.

Our remodeling peer group had to agree to have a standardized chart of accounts in order to compare the many members performance levels.

Make sure you aren't comparing apples to oranges such as the rents including utilities or some other concessions.

A vacant unit is a thing of beauty compared to a unit filled with pus-bags (I would've used the term 'scumbags' but MikeOH already trademarked it).

Compare that to buying 50 properties with the numbers I talked about.

It's not much to brag about compared to some of the other success stories I've heard.

When you compare the cost per door for a multi-family with the price of a single family home.. in some areas there is not much difference.

I have an appraiser that will get me comparable sales and the range that he feels the house will appraise in.

How do you think they would compare?