Play with the rental calculators and get proficient with analyzing deals.

Giving back is my ultimate goal i wouldn’t try to teach anybody anything I’m not proficient in myself.

Make sure your real estate investments are solid which is done by careful planning of the numbers that you need to become proficient at.I have been doing this for the past 26 years and I am looking pretty solid.  

I do a lot of data analytics currently and am really proficient at interacting with big data so I wanted to bring those skills to find deals, hence the name of the post: Data-Driven Deal Discovery.Getting the Data: So where I looped my skills in was with the Philadelphia Properties database.

Being proficient in argus and financial modeling will be crucial and helpful.

If you can do all the labor and are proficient it definitely worth it.

That's a lot of money left on the table.They seem to know I'm proficient as an agent, or they wouldn't be asking me detailed questions through (and after) the process. 

The first thing you ought to do is decide what your business model/strategy will be - this will determine who you need on your "team" and what materials you will need to look to in order to become proficient in the industry.

Like all things, the more you do it, the more proficient you become, but it takes time. 

If every time you wanted to do a raise and you had every investor coming at you with all kinds of different offers that THEY want to do and structure it's not a way to run a proficient business.