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.  

The overall mindset to keep, in my opinion, is to make as much as an apples to apples comparasion. 

Otherwise they're probably not quoting apples to apples with the other contractors. 

Austin is growing, no doubt, and is getting some big name employers like Apple and Amazon, but SATX has it's own share of large, national employers.  

Excuse the typos, on an iPhone.