I am ALSO an IT guy... you will find that your analytical skill set will translate well into analyzing properties and neighborhoods.BP has a tremendous amount of information to help you, but it is only available if you seek it out.

Many are engineers and other analytical professionals.

I have an eye for analytics and love the contract side of real estate investing.

Well, here is where analytical thinking comes into play.If people on these lists were motivated, why then does it take you 1000, 2000, 3000 mailers calls or texts to get one lousy deal?

I was looking at our analytics this morning and saw that 10% of our visitors are using IE7 for Windows and was really shocked that no one has reported this problem with the menus.

I'm just a very analytical person and have been in your shoes before. 

I usually perform online analytics first, get a realtor onboard to cross reference my data, then I usually take a week long trip to the area I invest in confirming my findings.

He often reacts emotionally instead of analytically. 

I am very analytical and have strong sales back ground so I feel my strengths will be in finding deals and funding. 

I have been in their offices  they have about 40 people on the floor doing analytical and everything on every market in the US they started selling bulk hedgefund portfolios to other big investors.. and now are entering your space.. you should be happy since your part owner of a title company hopefully you will get some of their business.