comparing me to others is totally apples to oranges I am a devloepr long term for me is one year..

There are some bad apples but most of the investors I meet seem to have a genuine interest to improve housing and neighborhoods.  

Jorge Apple to apple, Madison will be more expensive to be in a similar area in Milwaukee.

He was the example of what not to do in life...well his jerk off brother decided to take his 50k of family inheritance and put it all into apple stock.My econ teacher all year told us how stupid his brother was for doing this and diversification is how to invest etc.  

Usually they don't because my rates are better and using this process I have had a few bad apples come and go, but without actually tracking it I'd have to say my tenants average about 3.5 years per lease.  

If you're buying in So cal you probably won't be able to anyway since you'll have to make sure 75% of gross rents are equal or greater to the PITIA of the property and with the way prices are in LA/CA/SD counties it may be near impossible unless if you were in beaumont, apple valley, victor ville, bakersfield, San Bernardino, etc. 

But I had a big Norwegian one in my rental and it was a battle trying to get rid of it.Compare apples to apple, will the cost to remedy this problem be more or less then the money you will be losing

And, yes, get them itemized for apples to apples comparison.  

Any good opportunity can attract bad apples, but here, they don't last because the culture is being of service and making a difference.

The north side plus the northern suburbs are where 60% of the population lives because of land and access to the larger tech campuses (Apple, Dell, Samsung, etc).