My research suggests this is a solid B neighborhood, comprised largely of young professionals and UWM students.

I'm looking to start slow and involve my college student son.I'm looking to start by renting out my current home and buying a rental after I move.Thanks for having me!

Target industries include IT/data, logistics/warehousing and advanced manufacturing.South Bend being a college town with several Universities/Colleges (Notre Dame obviously being the largest one) creates student housing opportunities for approximately 20,000 plus students among all the institutions.All this spells opportunity and many out of town, out of state and even international investors have and continue to try and claim their stake.As indicated by @Immanuel Price and @Aaron Linden the University of Notre Dame in partnership with the City of South Bend has contributed a lot to the revitalization of the City that is bringing new jobs and the need for new housing.

Hello all,I am wondering as a full time student, if I will have the time available to start investing in buy and hold real estate?

I have a relatively good credit score (780) and 20k in student debt. a good. 

the biggest issues are that the available tenant base drops dramatically around October and doesn't pick up again till the end of the school year.People are no different than animals in that regard.They want to be settled and hunkered down in a property before the school year and/or bad weather starts.Quality tenants with good financial backgrounds don't want to move their families in the middle of an icy,snowy winter for obvious reasons,and good college students have already started school in August.Many of the few available tenants will have questionable backgrounds like recent job loss,previous eviction,bad credit,difficult income verification and don't make 3 times the rent,criminal records,etc.   

In my particular case I am an 18 year old student in St.

No student debt. 

I have no debt (car paid off, no credit card debt, no student loan debt) and pay no mortgage on my current home, so the $3k is unburdened cash. 

I put myself through a Bachelor's in Computer Science at James Madison University and still have the $60k in student debt to prove it!