Perhaps web-based analytical tools?

My only professional experience is in a sales role and I am looking to find a role where I use some of the analytical/financial skills I learned in college while getting my Finance degree.

Look at days on market and comparable sales for good analytics.  

I find the built in analytics that Homeaway / VRBO has developed to be very useful.

He went over analytics from SO many cities.

We are only able to consistently find good properties because of the analytic software we developed, the evaluation/selection process and rehab process we have in place, our investment team and our own personal investment experience.

This raises more questions than answers, I know, but hopefully it gives you some factors to consider and an analytical framework to assess them with.

I enjoy the analytics of the figures and utilize spreadsheets to "see" how the crunched numbers work (I will even go out of my way to do some of the calculations long-hand; call it a long-lost art).

The homes that I deal with are mostly post 2000 build so they are in decent shape only needing cosmetic changes.Being an engineer I am way too analytical and have lost on some screaming deals, but again looking back is always 20/20 :).

I've been buying undervalued properties directly from homeowners ever since.It's obvious that you will have to be the analytical control freak and that he will have to be ok with that in order for this to work.