I’m deeply analytical and have great attention to detail.

All of these tips are superb and a reminder how "comfortable" I have become showing homes to strangers that my guard has gone down a lot in the past few years.

The better use of your time is in acquisitions or management of your growing portfolio, such as is needed to scale.You will, however, gain from your time spent in a real estate program in terms of networking, and training your brain to be analytical with real estate specific terminology.

Computer Science equals Software Engineering, QA Testing, Data Analytics pretty much everything you are doing on a computer at work.

I have written down my business plan (even though it's only about 3 pages) and started to build analytical tools in excel to analyze properties.

The above is superb advice!

The numbers have to be superb with the interest and origination fee.

Hi @Eric Li,Mentality: You and I are very much alike; you are very analytical, which is a gift, but it also can trick you into thinking you can outsmart the future and mathematically win at investing. 

Any basic analytics that can be used?  

I have read hundreds of posts and it always seems like the people with really great answers still ask for more info from the poster so I will try to write down as many details as I can think - sorry for the lengthy post...as the subject line reads, this is for analytical types.1.