How to start rental property business?

[Pavankumar Reddy Kanjula]

Hi everyone, I am a business owner in the international student recruitment space. We help south Asian students to get admissions to universities in the USA. Now, we are considering expanding our services to provide housing services to our students in the USA. Our advantage is that the students are already prescreened and all of them have education loans, so no problem with rent collection. I am a newbie in the real estate industry and looking to buy our first rental property around one of the universities our students join to start with. Could you all please give some inputs I need to keep in mind? 

Regards,

Pavan