If you can elaborate a little on your 40+ unit deals , how you found them , the analytics , how you financed them and all that good stuff .

Analyticalinspector- really detailed, being outside a lot of the time, need to get dirtymortgage banker- office job, reviewing and approving as well as underwriting loansescrow officer- reads closing documents to you, desk job, really communicativereal estate analyst- detailed, underwrite deals, know a lot of cash flow metrics, communicative, analytical, excel modelingThere's no right or wrong, you can try paid internships to see if it works out. 

Guesty seems to have a lot more features and analytics but they charge more as well, understandably.

And that analytical mind should serve you well in the world of REI. 

For Retail, you have realtime customer analytics the moment they enter your store.

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.

The real benefit from being licensed in that role is access to the MLS and other great analytic, research, lead gen, etc. tools.My brokerage allows me 3 sides per year where they take no split, but there are almost as many business models as they are brokers.    

Anish seems more analytical, numbers guy, sarcastic (in a nice way), less emotion and seems kind of quiet.My advice before getting into an association....

So, now I am focusing my analytical skills on real estate investing.

I think there is always potential for that strategy in most markets but my suggestion would be to hold off unless you find a truly superb deal.