According to Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics chief economist, the shutdown could cause severe consequences if it is not resolved and the debt ceiling is not raised by October 17th, the day when the government is expected to run out of money.As the federal government shutdown continues, real estate deals are becoming delayed.

I consider myself a "humanistic analytic" and I am a very "systems" oriented type of person.

Nonetheless your link to BP's analytical tools seem most helpful.

Requesting bids, project planning, budgeting, ordering bulky materials are one person, plan maintenance/status (college grad type, technical, organizational, and analytical work) Could this be a VA?

If so, I'm going to advise this new math grad to stay away from finance since he tends to not like probability and statistics, he tends to favor numerical analysis and computer science more.Also what I'm getting from your post is that math in finance pretty much requires a PhD since the basic analytical tools required involve concepts beyond most math BA's, is that fairly accurate?

My brain is analytical and home buyers are emotional.

Here is an excerpt I found on their startup page on Angel.co:TrueAccord uses behavioral analytics and personalized messaging to get late and delinquent customers to pay up, recover and come back to being paying customers.TrueAccord automatically: - Collects publicly available data about debtors to create a rich dataset teaching the system how to approach them - Communicates with debtors via multiple channels - Uses a process designed according to latest behavioral economics research to negotiate with them and understand the root of their inability and/or lack of willingness to pay - Manages the payment process - Presents insights back to the merchantTECHNOLOGY- Complementing debtor profiles with online crawling inspired by Israeli Intelligence Forces' technology, bringing together sentiment analysis, social data and more. - First ever automated negotiations engine working on debtor objections in real time, employing behavioral economics guided U

(Maybe some people with more analytical brains could calculate and compare that over 15 years.)I've actually been looking for properties that I can buy with cash only but haven't found any that make enough money.

Hey BP'ers,I had a meeting with a CoStar rep today, product looks great, lots of analytics, bells and whistles, I was told there will be a new analytic tool just for multifamily properties that will make it very easy to tell if it is a deal or no deal.

Being over-analytical is an understatement.