College students may appreciate a quiet study area or a place to visit with guests while their roommate studies in the apartment.Maybe there's a need for a coffee shop or other small business that needs very little room but also provides a service your tenants would be interested in?

It’s not always a smooth ride, but those first bumps are where the real lessons hit hardest—speaking from experience—mistakes and all.

Lessons learned?

Assuming your kids are in high school and going to college, here are some areas you can put on your radar - El Cerrito, Kensington, Berkeley, Piedmont, Dublin, and South SF.

Lynchburg has been ranked as "College Town" and has several hospitals.

I’ve been a member of BiggerPockets since college, and it’s been a game-changer.

To answer your other question, yes I have LTR property that is doing quite well.Appreciate the forum etiquette lesson.

Lessons learned?

That is not an accurate picture you are painting here.All this is just drama overspill from a different post on a different forum:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/1216921-advic...A college student asked for advice in the wholesaling forum, about trying to wholesale in NYC.His "Constructive Criticism" was:This is not "constructive criticism", this is projecting your own limitations onto others.

I'm also pretty new and still in college so I don't want my experience or appearance jeopordize any deals so it's unrealistic for me to go to the properties in person.