I also think Freakonomics is a good book to break some of the conventional wisdom that society holds and start to think more analytically.

Make sure you upload it to a place, that you can download them whenever you need them or discontinue their service.Graphic trendsAgain - financial analytics use your accounting software as much as you can and then there is always excel.

This is all surmised based on their data and analytics tools.

If you are a analytics geek like me, you can still use the summary data from these applications to do you own analysis / tracking.Good luck to you.Vincent.

They'll provide this info for free to further your relationship.Some other considerations:CoStar - good for lease and sale compsReal Capital Analytics - good for sale and refi comps - also collects some lender dataTrepp - THE source for CMBS data, including property performanceCityFeet - on market sale and lease informationCrexi - on market sale informationReonomy - property information with owner names and contact infoLandVision - GIS with multiple data layersThere are many more, but these are the ones that I've used or heard good reports.

Also in the trenches with data & analytics relevant to the investment community.

I think given your analytical skills you could have a good time looking at roles as underwriters/processors at different banks that offer residential & commercial loans. 

@Chris Martin  superb post.. most states board of realtors contracts read the same way.and its common in my line of work as well.. since I fund out of 12 different buckets and many times I don't know which company I want to take title in when I put in the original offer.Or if we are doing a subdivision and we have not named it yet and want to create an LLC just for that build out..

Stop showing them spreadsheets and analytical data.

if you have capital and credit then you dont need these other abilities nearly as much to be successful.I would add analytical and “deal making” ability to that mix. otherwise, the person in question is just a commissioned salesperson, and can earn a good - great living like a lot of really good salespersons.