However, I am willing to be a good student and learn something new there as well.

College students/people with job Mon-Friday in city/ people limited income rent a room.

You'll need to get creative, either through house hacking or some sort of value-add or STR/MTR or student rentals if you're near OSU.What Oregon lacks in cash flow we make up for in appreciation.

However ... my apartments are full of students, section-8, subsidized and otherwise. 

My only other bills are phone, insurance, gym, and student loan.

So let's start a discussion:Any success/nightmare stories with student housing?

Are your current properties student rentals? 

So spend as much time as possible reading books, listening to podcasts and approach this world of REI as you’d like (or wish) your students would take the lessons you teach.

Some go for $700k plus and are designed as high end student rentals and others, in Bryan,  sell for $200k but need a lot of work.

My only other bills are phone, insurance, gym, and student loan.