It has very helpful tools, resources, and networking capabilities.

What tools do you use to find seller emails and send email blasts?

If you're looking in neighborhoods near where you live obviously you can just go in person but for those that are farther away it really is a helpful tool.

You can do the same for hiring marketing team members, who can help you place content online to attract investors.When it comes to acquisitions, partnering with other sponsors on deals is a great way to gain real experience and quickly build a reputation for your firm to grow and scale accordingly.Finally, investors should be utilizing technology to automate day to day processes and free up time; Mailchimp is a cheap and useful tool for investor relations communications, HubSpot is a free CRM database that can help you stay in touch with investors, and AirTable is great for company project management and assignment tracking.Do you have any other tips or insights to making the transition?

A google email account includes lots of powerful tools.

He's do decent work for cheap, and then one day he sobers up and decides to see if he can take you for a ride to fund his next tool purchase.You didn't get a written estimate, so you left yourself open to abuse.

You will learn useful tools throughout school, and be able to use them everywhere, including real estate analysis.

I have also overhauled our entire software architecture and have done a complete re-write of our technology so we can give the tools away for free to support 506(c) raises.  

Here are some of the problems I'm attempting to solve:-Scrubbing lists for active listings/recently sold properties and the DNC registry-Updating lists to reflect market activity-Skip tracing phone numbers-Direct Mail automation-Ability to add leads & lists seamlesslyWhether its a software, CRM, or manual system that you find to be effective, I'd love to hear how the BP community has conquered this problem faced by all scaling RE businesses. 

You see a lot of people simply trying to be the go-between on properties they found using the same tools we do (loopnet, zillow, realtor.com, commercial sale sites).