Does train you to be overly analytical (which is usually a good thing)

With all of your analytical experience seems like you won't have a problem with success.Best of luck!

I think it's important for all of us to weigh being- conservative analytically versus ready to act when the right deal presents itself.

Even if I don't get the house, I would appreciate feedback for analytical purposes.Target price: $95,000Renovation Budget: $5000Closing Costs: ~2%Equity Investment at 10% down (because this was a fannie mae homepath home)10% = $9592, closing costs at 2%, $1918, renovation $5000, total equity in deal $16,810.

As a fellow economics major, I can tell you having an analytical background has definitely helped me and makes the learning curve that much easier.

Although this next part is uncited, there’s a ton of search engine analytic data which indicates that website visitors are more likely to click on an ad showing a photo of a woman, versus a photo of a man.

I'm far from an expert on Android, but if it is working for one of you (and from our analytics, it looks like the site loads fine on Android), I'm guessing it may be an isolated issue.

I am an analytical person and I am always spotting trends.When I delivered pizza I had addresses memorized.We could take 2 to 4 deliveries at a time depending on how busy we were.I knew who tipped average,great,below average,and no tip.If I knew the third run I could take or not was marginal or no tip I would just take 2 and come back.Leaving the known no tippers I increased my per hour margin by 1.50 a delivery.If the run was next and I had to take it I would.I would try to find out the others WHY they didn't tip at all or a low tip.Then I would tell them that the drivers pay for insurance and wear and tear on the vehicle and only get so much a run when asked.They were shocked and thought the store compensated the drivers.I would also mention carryout specials to them which were cheaper hoping sometimes they would go pick it up since they didn't want to pay for service.I get into many discussions on another broker/agent forum about reality and the way things SHOULD BE.In a perfect world nothing would be out of place but it isn't so.An example is buyers agents showing property more that pays a higher commission.The right fighters get on there and say " I would never put my clients needs ahead of my own etc. " being all high and mighty.I don't put my needs ahead of my clients either BUT when listing a property here is the reality.Every year tons of new agents enter the field.Most buyers agents are new because they don't have experience to get sellers to give them a listing.90% fail the first year and leave the business.So although the agent shouldn't only show higher commission properties the reality is many DO to make the most out of the few transactions they get.So perfect world is Y and REALITY is X.Although the perfect world is nice reality has to be dealt with on a daily basis.I appreciate the thoughtful discussion provided without it getting over heated.

We had visitors from 188 countries and territories over the last 30 days (according to our analytics), Rich.

This goes to ROI directly and not to appreciation at all.I have read a couple of articles from Fortune and The WSJ that reported on a Moody's Analytics study from last year (haven't seen one for 2012).