The biggest question I had to answer for myself was, do I want to help people find their first home with the emotional side of things OR do I want to help other investors find their first second third, 100th deal. difference is the emotional RE agent or the analytical RE agent.

I like that it seems that you are super analytical which I can relate to.

So I am going to classify this more as opinion piece than research or analytics .... 

Personally I wouldn't invest a dollar without running some form of detailed analysis, but this is second nature to me at this point.As far as personal investments, I have found my analytics to be fairly accurate, as much as they can be anyway.

Maybe you just have the connections to raise money and analytics to plan and do the reports and investor relations... 

Strong analytical data and financially staked partners have relieved the stress, for me. 

I work on the healthcare brokerage team for JLL - we're a Fortunate 500 company offering commercial brokerage, management services, facilities, strategy, capital markets and so much more than I can feasibly list.My director and I specialize in physician and medical tenant representation, healthcare system real estate analytics, and general medical real estate consulting in Ohio but we also work across the Great Lakes Region.

Imagine this: 5 years from now you'll be 5-20+ deals deep and you'll still be doing the same thing: writing multiple offers and being analytical before finding each and every deal that 'passes'.

Some are amazing at sourcing, some understand both the analytics and underwriting. 

I agree, as engineers we develop a lot of analytical & troubleshooting skills which I feel definitely apply in REI.