Negotiating can be a headache without an experienced agent – you might miss stuff or leave money on the table.

What you need to do is get a property and some experience managing it to see if this is the right business for you.I would not wait until graduation.

Which in turn will bring plenty of other investors and general business to the market.

Permanent debt commercial mortgages also generally will not play with an in-place DSCR below 1.25% (possible exception for very strong/experienced borrower, but such a person wouldn't be making a thread like this one, no offense. :).An interesting result of the 1.25% DSCR being more firm on the commercial side is that rent-to-price ratios and cashflows are better.

How have accurate books / outsourcing bookkeeping helped you in your business?

A lot of manpower is lost.As we approach our busy section 8 season (for us April - July) I am looking for better ways (more affordable and efficient options to the investors bottom line) to plan for and execute the workload which may include hiring someone that has section 8 experience to handle our CHA inspections(and associated maintenance work) or a company that we can outsource when the weeks get slammed with inspections. 

I am a business owner and have an S-corporation.

I have another non-real estate business.

Teh amount of money saved by doing these activities myself was huge in ensuring the success of the business.

An experienced occupant can string the owner and system along for up to a year or longer.