The professor was great and I also completed an ARGUS DCF course which these days is pretty much a requirement to get into commercial real estate.

Thanks for the info @Isaac Blocher and Josh C.We have done everything by the book and checked with our attorney, who is a property lawyer professor at IUPUI.

One of my professors even hired me on to his real estate development company.

The girl’s father is a professor at a prestigious school in the state.

A professor once told me that he had a colleague almost die in a lake because he thought he could swim after reading extensively on the topic. 

Earlier this week I was going to my Arizona State University class in real estate investments and the professor had brought up the topic on how to start a portfolio of investments, particularly in residential property.

Also this part is really just my opinion (and I'm no economics professor lol) but I personally think we won't see much for rate increases.  

At least I'll be using real estate related skillset I can use somedatime.In my spare time I have reached out several real estate schools, researched base incomes for real estate related fields, spoken to professors, real estate schools, etc.Basically the default answer is get a real estate sales person license (3 classes) then network, apply and specialize.

If someone wants ground up day to day training a syndicator does not usually have time for such things.If you want to learn on your own plan on spending thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for certain high level development courses taught at colleges and similar by developers giving the course or professors.

Stick to reading books and writing articles professor, you might not be cut out for actually jumping into the arena to live or die.