I am in Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay / Silicon Valley area and the market is still a seller's market with little inventory compared to past statistics. 

Never trust a statistic you don't fully understand!

Obviously it matters how they're trained BUT It all comes down to statistics.

I work as a finance consultant in Nairobi Kenya.I seek to meet many members in bigger pockets forum to learn more and build contacts.Am working on bringing in Automated Valuation Modeling through my business consultancy whereby I shall be doing statistical valuations and offering this service to real estate investors.I look forward to relating with you all.

Based on statistics a lot of people make a negative ROI or maybe just up to 3%...just a few very lucky investors make a ROI maybe up to 6%.

Everyone was nice, they have great research on their management areas and good statistics to back up their management (although I find their statistics are overly optimistic, they are still real numbers)There just wasn't enough meat on the bone for me to go that route.

Is somebody on here adding up how many engineers invest in real estate and doing a statistical analysis on it, maybe with mean, average, median, standard deviations, a few transformations and differential equations and coming up with an answer on what percentage of RE Investors are engineers???!!!  

The reason is statistically they are just not used very often.Here is some of the problems you will encounter:1.

That’s the 2020 forecast from realtor.com, which holds one of the largest databases of housing statistics available.Sales of existing homes will fall 1.8% from 2019, according to the forecast.

I test everything before I allow them to leave, about 30% of the time (by the way did you know 80% of all statistics are made up?)