Ever since joining the real world after college, I have been fascinated with investing and the magic of compounding interest.

She found this all really fascinating and we agreed that we would for sure need someone to come and give it an appraisal.

Great wisdom.My background was in pharmaceutical science, no REI.

I would like to think I have some uniquely talented skill or some sort of genius, but the reality is, what we do is not rocket science. .

To me it's as much of an art as it is a science. 

Thanks for the clarification @Karen Rittenhouse, it does get a little confusing like for example when Sharin Vornholt mentioned and think of wholesaler as a transaction coordinator or when Mike Nelson mention that he "flip contracts" or "wholesale contracts" even thou is not really "wholesaling" in theory it kind of works out the same and the intention and end result is the same which is selling a good lead, selling a good deal to an investor.I just find it fascinating how words can be interpreted different depending of what you are referring to and how can same words can have different meanings or you can even create a new trend and make up a new meaning for a word like for example "Flipping" I'm pretty sure at some point many years ago someone in the the real estate business started calling it "Flip" and now everyone call it that.by the way I do remember your podcast now, great podcast, I learned a lot from there a lot of good tips.

Hopefully I will meet someone there who will be will into show me a few things in return for me adding value to them whatever that may be, such as a free intern, free tech support (in the last yea of getting a computer science degree) or just free labor worker for there properties.

Over time, if one has the art and science of SEO right, more competitive phrases should be acquired.

But spending $50K on a high demand skill like Computer Science is definitely worth it.

This can be more art than science but it may help to separate recurring maintenance and turns from upgrades.