I'm going to play the devil's advocate with @Ryan Boyce here :) I would recommend going to college for something that interests you separately from RE...unless finance or business management is something that you would go to school for anyway.

I believe MA is like CT where a typical eviction is 2-3 months if there are no games being played.

. :-)And the playing dead thing really was not the added "bonus" I was hoping to get out of the house. :-)

I think there are two different things in play here.

I agree Carolina NA the 1/1's is less than ideal. Ive

After that, I know I'm playing a numbers game where the odds are overwhelmingly in my favor.

This was on a busy street and a traffic light was installed at this time, with the light being about 15 feet from the front door, not an ideal environment for a rental.

The time expended to prepare the data from receipts, accounting records or other would be the same whether the data was to be used in a relational model or a big data model because I imagine that much of this data is not in digital form already.Big Data would come into play if you had a massive volume of data that you might want to analyze from various sources that would be too large for a relational model and or the rate of change/growth for such data was very high such that a relational model could not keep up (not going to mention Data Warehousing as that is not going to be cost effective for you).

And some of the responses from pros and experienced investors are saying, jump in play in the water get your feet wet.

I'm a newbie on this site.I'm so glad I found a forum on this level of wealth of knowledge in real estate investing.I orginally started as a Real Estate Investor playing in the area of Wholesale, Note-Buying, Hold and Flip, who later started originating loans.