I am looking to hone my negotiation skills and have recently just finished the book Never Split The Difference.

I wanted to take my own approach using skills from my day job.

Build the team around the skills you have to ensure their skills set is complementary and start working towards your goal.If I can help you further feel free to reach out.Best!

It's awesome to run across someone who has worked with inherited IRA's, it seems to be a very rare (and valuable) skill to have!

Recently, I have realized my strengths are more on the analytical side and I would like to transition to a role that will allow me to do work utilizing my strengths, and learn skills that will help me with multifamily investing.

The more I read on this site the more I realize that I have a lot of useful skills in this industry. 

It seems like there's an opportunity for me to lend my skills in underwriting and analyzing deals to those without an extensive background in commercial real estate.

It is very important for me to bring some knowledge or skills to the table, otherwise I don't want to waste people's time.

-- if you don't have any type of skill, there's no difference from you and the next HS graduate, and no reason you should get paid more than minimum wage IMO.

@John Smithe - This is going to come down to the following:1) Your personal investment philosophy: your goals, your interests, your time horizon, your risk tolerance, and your interpretation of world events 2) Your unfair advantage: your skills, your expertise, your network, your resourcesBiggerPockets tends to bring together like minds and similar experience, so this sampling bias might result in concluding that a large multifamily in the Midwest, for example, is the best use of your funds.Ask the broad universe of investors the same question, however, and your answers will be quite different.Real estate might well be your best investment, but so might be starting a business, or picking stocks, or buying precious metals.