I've got excellent credit at the moment and a job with six figure income (however much lower after taxes/student loans/primary mortgage), would this help gain what I want with a lender?

Stony Brook will have plenty of people for apartments but there are plenty of towns in Nassau where students, young adults and even entire families are looking to rent in. 

ITT students might be able to transfer their federal loan credits elsewhere or possibly have them canceled.

I have a student housing unit by a university in North Carolina.

Well I want to pay my student loans off before I go investing in things.  

My wife does not work and we have a good amount of "stupid" debt (credit cards/hospital bills/student loans) and not very much in savings and fair credit.

I now realize that I am not a student and thus really have no interest in the higher Ed field but am a damn good "employee".

I'm also a BP podcast listener.I started dabbling in real estate investing in 2011, when I bought two single houses in College Park, MD and rented it to college students (I was a student myself so I knew the area).

It is the advice I give my students that don't have a lot of money to get their business going.

Neighborhood demographic: will you be renting to students around a university (generally higher rents but more turnover), young professionals, or families?