However, my full-time job in corporate strategy provides me three fundamental skills I believe will translate incredibly well to real estate:Quantitative analysis and model-building are core skills to being able to judge the value of a potential market / acquisition in my daily workMy daily success hinges on instilling efficient, scalable business processes and getting creative with incentive alignment to ensure everyone is working toward the same goalAs a strategist, my work on the above has zero bearing if I haven't earned the trust of those who must execute against them.

It is really just an IRA with a different business model that allows for investments outside of wall street.  

If it goes well we may convert a few more to this operating model looking forward but one step at a time.

In that case, it can be a successful investment model as you can develop multiple income streams and build equity while not having to manage tenants and hunt for deals.

This was a late model single-family house in a good quiet neighborhood.

My wife's full-time job is raising our children, but her side hustle is managing the day to day operations of the Airbnb, so we have a unique situation that would allow us replicate this model in the future :). 

When COVID hit and we were not allowed to show property traditionally we changed to an application first model. 

The data is not the problem, the problem is potentially being rejected by underwriting because the predictive FICO model deems you as high risk.

As far as his HUD training course it is something that is extra and not his primary business model.

My model was buy a property, rehab, put tenants in place, cash-out refinance with the lease supporting income for DTI calculation, repeat.