You are welcome to talk to the neighbors, the grocer, the local mailman, the 2 kids running the lemonade stand, the guys repairing the roads, the stoned high school kids 5 doors down, the pilot who flies a plane over on the daily flight to Salt Lake city or even the president of the local avian viewers club.

Read about both professions, interview people in such professions already about their daily lives and then decide for yourself which one is more suitable for your personality.

Keep in mind with that conservative approach you want to be bidding offensively low, just to see if you can spend the full daily budget.

Some of things I consider besides the analytic part is the number rentals available, rental comps, number of house for sale and date of availability.I've been looking daily and I'm having a really hard time deciding where, I wonder if people do end up with a duplex in every state, lol. 

If you work in tech you will have recruiters flocking to you on a daily basis trying to poach you.

Tenant screening is pretty important with either one and the apartment complexes you can usually afford a management company to do the daily BS for you. 

Thank your parents, daily, for helping you to save.

I was hoping to get some answers on some great RE resource websites as well as software you all use.I've done research on a few, just would like to hear some opinions from people using them daily.

I would like some advice on moving forward, please go easy on me as I understand that some of the decisions I have made are not the best and I have paid for those decisions with my daily/weekly stress levels and my loan payments. 

I pass by that area daily on my route to my day job.