However, I think Ray Dalio's comparison brings up some good points that should be researched further. 

It also includes a discount rate but you can ignore that for simple comparisons.

I hate to make this comparison but your tenant sounds like my puppy except maybe she is not so cute.

Lake Gaston is 2 hours south of that on the NC border so Henrico isn't a great comparison.

You can't use 2008 as a comparison here. 

You know those that focus first on the cash flow, also get the same benefit of appreciation...along with the pay down from the rent, so their equity doesn't go negative just because they have higher cash flow...and like I said above, 100/month is not even the high end of bad cash flow.I kills me the way your comparison sets the bar for the Cash Flow returns at the worst end, and yours at the high end, and say that's a fair comparison.

To be fair one might add equity gains and cash flow vs just cash flow alone for a more complete and total comparison.

To add another stock comparison.

So he shook his head and said it doesn't look right like it's almost like your charging for your tools doing the job.But I know the director of the agency, and she'll go crazy if the fees went up $1,000 even though it's still cheaper by comparison.

I've also encountered folks who have personally paid for emergency repairs to a property because they could not obtain IRA funds from their custodian promptly.By comparison, the administrative efficiency of the IRA owned LLC structure eliminates the need to "get creative" to solve a problem.