Anyone have dental school/practice debt but still investing?

[Emily Lassen]

My husband and I are about to purchase a dental practice but I’m also eager to start investing in real estate. I’d like to purchase a home, live in it for a couple years and then sell or start renting it. He’s apprehensive purchasing a home before we qualify for our dental practice loan. But I’m wondering if it’s better that we get a house loan now because we probably wouldn’t qualify after a dental practice loan. So my question is, has anyone been in this situation? How do you manage to invest in real estate when already dealing with medical school debt? Or practice loan debt? Is it still possible?