Now I have to teach myself how to analyze a possible property and become familiar with an analytical rental spreadsheet~ I must be honest: I look at them and it might as well be written in Pig Latin, I get lost and discouraged in seconds.

We actually just wrote a blog post about why Sacramento is a great market (it's probably more on the fun than the analytical side).

And with commercial especially those that maybe are not the greatest sales folks in the world but are better at crunching numbers and analytical can be very successful..

Compared to buying web traffic this can be very advantageous.Make sure you look at the Twitter analytics too.

I'm looking into acquiring a short sale property and need clarification on the analytical side.

I'd personally setup a business page as well, the analytics that FB has for posts on the business page are really cool and you can see how many people saw certain posts and what kind of content is getting you the most engagements/views/etc.  

I do know that we are collecting more and more information within our systems which will open doors to stronger analytic tools in the future.  

Not very analytical, but I use section 8 rates as a reference.  

Im 23 and considering going for my MBA in data analytics or possibly something geared towards real estate.I am not looking to quit my job to be "financially free" but rather to use my income to aide in getting started with REI.

As I review the analytics, the larger ROI was in higher risk assets, it is a little more risk than I personally would like to have with SFR rentals.