And it is a completely meaningless comparison, just like the refund itself.First, your salary has likely changed.

Not quite an equal comparison, but using that, realtors take overpriced listings to get the listing, they over promise and under deliver, but they know when they get no activity, they can go back to the client and tell them the market has spoken and we need to lower the price to get It sold.

@Aj ParikhI am also in Ohio,Although I keep away from Cleveland because in comparison to other cities it is not landlord friendly 😉I was also able to scale significantly we own today three digit portfolios.And yeah and most Ohio cities a 250,000 home gives you a very very nice living.

Guess I won't be paying off any more properties early.Management fees are pretty nominal in comparison to all other expenses--which I wouldn't have guessed either....

Appraisals for investment properties often include the income approach and the sales comparison approach. 

And how viable they are in comparison to SFH in this area?

If you want a decent comparison based on the size and area (keep in mind I have no idea what the interior of the Cresthaven property looks like), there's a house listed on MLS literally about 5 houses down across the street listed for $419,700 (H3178488).  

I mainly use it for comparisons of year over year. 

Thanks @Walter Aaron Poling and @Lynn Currie, I actually am an agent, but I'm new and haven't done a spec build comparison yet.

Did you comparison shop on price?