It depends on where you want to live, income, personality, and other factors.You could buy a large home and rent out the individual rooms to cover expenses, but this comes with problems.

- Are you needing that $6500 in income?  

You rent it for one year and create a successful STR business that shows a trailing 12 month net income of $75,000.  

It simplifies the process since Zillow handles credit, income, and background checks for a small fee paid by the applicant.Background Check Services: If you prefer not to use Zillow, consider using services like MySmartMove or RentSpree.

Do not do anything that does not produce income.

Note: We do 50+ investment property loans a month and the most important thing I tell BUYERS of properties being sold as or soon to be STR is make sure you are paying the market price per square foot and do NOT buy based on income approach/CAP rate.

If you paid under $230k, you’d save $30k in federal capital gains taxes and maybe another $15k or more in state income taxes.

See what qualifications people are looking for and do what you have to in the meantime to produce income while you're studying. 

So I do not have a tax filing with the rental income on it yet.

This is the 2ND month the same problem is happening now, we have been with Appfolio for more than 5 years and have about 60 - 80 units collecting rental income through Appfolio and we never had this issue before with the previous Appfolio team.