Your story caught my eye...I started out studying architecture and quickly shifted to construction engineering as I was a bit more analytical than I was creative at the time. 

That said, GPT is a good tool that made it very easy for me to get a better understanding of basic analytics, comparing contrasting states and property types (duplex, triplex, fourplex) and property taxes. 

To expand it just a little furtherMany real estate crowd funding platforms failed because while they had primo tech talent, they “scrimped” on paying for financial talent.Along similar lines many syndications fail because the sponsors are primo “marketers, promoters, and social media specialists, lacking investing, analytical and managerial skills as well as relevant real estate experience.   

Investors should always be analytical, not emotional.

Exciting that you’re jumping into your first rental within the next few months — software engineers tend to have a great analytical approach to deal analysis, which will serve you well.I’m also based in Chicago and focus on small multifamily and value-add deals.

I've got a few months before I can even purchase anything (and im a pretty analytical person as it is) so ive been doing a lot of planning.

I’m 22 and a junior at Kennesaw State studying Data Science and Analytics.

We have software and predictive analytics for vetting properties, but we wanted to hear from investors and owners in the area.

These are emotional based transactions, not the analytical based transactions an investor should be focused on.

We built a system that tracks their team’s time, automatically generates owner invoices at month-end, and gives them analytics by property and by employee.