It's not rocket science.

What has been most fascinating is that this system they have in place is not allowing them to sell what I would view as some of our better homes in better areas but it is allowing them to sell homes that are not as good as the ones its not allowing. 

I have a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry and currently work at Baker Hughes.

Aside from major commercial, I have experience with numerous home renovation projects, as I come from a family of home builders, investors, and flippers.I am a graduate of UF with a Bachelors of Science in Building Construction (go gators!)

I am a full-time science teacher and am pretty new to the world of real estate investing.

I have been looking at all of the options (largely via the BP blogs, forums, and podcasts) and I am working on narrowing my focus to a single strategy to really learn and develop but I find that there are many fascinating methods of investing and I think I will try many of them after a while.

But I wanted to mention the book Zillow Talk.Whether you love or hate the Zillow app/website, this is a fascinating book (and a very quick read) that would be right down your alley - it's basically about Zillow's mission of making this data accessible to the public and it goes into detail on some of the quirks of the real estate market they've been able to identify and study through data mining.

Fascinating for sure.

I have been fascinated with REI for a long time now.

I know this is not an exact science but is a good starting point in analyzing a potential deal.I’d be interested in reading some responses to see if I understand it correctly.