I'm currently at work and doped on cold/flu med to combat the plague I've contracted heh.

This is an on-going concern not only with real estate but small/med size business in general.  

You either buy or you rent seasonlly, I feel pretty fortunate to have this med student leasing my place for the next few years.

I am near Albany Med/Albany Law.College of Pharmacy.

The part of Thirdward that's close to the med center had 500k plus homes and plenty of multi family.

This may make the most sense if you have a parking lot at your multifamily complex.To be less theoretical, by catering to my niche med students, I've increase the rent on my 1 bd apt from $625 to $940/mo.

I have a mortgage and med school loans so I saw this as an opportunity.

There are meds for that but you need to challenge paradigms.

A bunch of my rentals here in New York were geared towards university and med students when we first got started.  

People who get an MBA, law degree, go to med school, could make six figures but also often have six figure debt, and they have to work 70 hours a week to keep their job and pay off their debt and they can't escape.