You'll learn about persuasion, presentation, negotiation and marketing and enough about bookkeeping to be able to find a CPA later, and it will help you be an even better real estate agent.Even if you only knock out 2-4 classes a year, you will eventually finish, and it's an important checkbox to get your resume read if you ever need to pick up additional income or benefits with a day job.  

Hi Andy welcome to the forum, For sure I would leverage your background in sales - many people dont have it as a strength and so if you are persuasive, then use it to your advantage in deal generation and negotiation.

If you want me to make a more extensive persuasive argument for investing in San Diego PM me.  

There certainly is a lot of variables at play so send me a DM so I don’t have to flood this forum with an essay lol

Typically, a recent arms length sale of properties that were advertised for sale publicly is deemed to be persuasive evidence of the property's actual market value.

Good comps are nearly irrefutable so if you have good comps and a decent lender to negotiate value using appraisers formulas for determining value you can almost always get the appraiser to come up or meet you near where "value," should be.This is where the science of appraisal meets the arts of persuasion. 

In my experience, option 3 is the least persuasive and in some cases can be disregarded.Contact me if you'd like to discuss in more detail.

The grass is always greener...If you never read "Acres of Diamonds", a short essay written maybe 50 years ago and popularized by Earl Nightengale, take a moment to read it.

Appreciation is a very market specific topic that I am sure we can write essays about and it is more volatile than returns from rent.

They were very persuasive but in the end my gut feelings won out and luckily we did not purchase the $30k mentoring program!