You don't learn your market sitting behind a computer screen, you learn it by going out a looking at deals and networking.

We just sat in his office and looked at properties on his computer.

They already didn’t show and there’s days folks like to hide behind their computers and smart phones so blast em an email and maybe someone will reply and be candid wiry you as to why they didn’t show up and are not interested.

What I do in addition to telling them what to do is create a video of my computer screen and show them how to collect the information.  

These days, the computer software makes it fairly easy for CPAs to do that, even if they're located in another state (such as your home state of Pennsylvania). 

You're bidding against a computer. 

You only learn so much sitting behind a computer running numbers.

The same purely mathematical computation applies to other investments.

Same sentiment was expressed during the industrial revolution or when computers took off or when internet exponentially expanded, etc. 

There's still a spectrum of quality and accuracy in cost seg ranging from highly accurate forensic detailed approaches to less accurate statistical sampling and computer modeling.