With that said, we are comparing apples and oranges.

Just for grins, our personal home was purchased in Cupertino in 1973 for 34K sold in 1997 for 305K - - you do the math.The clue here is Cupertino; located in the Silicon Valley where the hi-tech companies are co-located -- Google, Oracle, Facebook, Parc/xerox, HP, Apple and it's all located withing hours of the mountains, sea shore, fishing, hiking - - It was only pure luck that my employer moved me to a job in Palo Alto and I got to live there.That gain FORCED me into a 1031 for my MFU

I've helped all kinds of people in foreclosure who had large screen tv's in every room and the latest iPhones and coolist toys. 

Quick question, how do I do a colleague request and how do I pm someone on the iPhone app?l

Morris Invest is just one of more well known bad apples at this point, however there are many others and some on bp still. 

I'm debating whether to go stainless steel appliances with laminate counters, or get the granite counters and do white appliances (white would go better with color scheme of paint job than black)The property is a two ...

Apples with apples, Orange's with Oranges.  

Did anybody buy the IPhone??

Make sure the equipment qouted is all the same size, so you are comparing apples to apples. 

They are about as similar of a experience as comparing a apple with a aardvark.