Hi Bigger Pockets, I am relatively new to real estate and am currently a Petroleum Engineering student at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas graduating this December.

If it's as an investor: are you talking about accredited investor or nonaccredited investor (which are both very different worlds).

The property is located 7 minutes from a university so we are hopping to be able to create more units in this desirable area.

I am exploring to invest around University of Memphis area and reading the posts.

If you end up near university of louisville I can help you!!

It is not logical that we could be in business for over 10 years (in the same city even), employing the number of people we do, carrying all of the business overhead that comes with running a large enterprise,  being vetted by the number of accredited investors who choose to put their capital to work with us etc. if the business model was charging $3000 to as many people as possible and then purposefully turning down their loans.

I guess they wanted the glory without the grind.By the way, Keller Williams had Baylor University do a study and they found that if you make random calls into a selected area, after 12 hours of calls, give or take, you get a deal.

I have done that already, and in short I came to following high level findings.Positive impact on appreciation: -area was historically undesirable due to association with “East Austin” demographic stereotype, but that his changed rapidly in last 10 years due to proximity to downtown, universities, corporations moving in, redevelopment of parks/recreations etc.

https://kinder.rice.edu/kinder-houston-area-surveyGreat study by Rice University.

Four-bed, three-bath ranch-style home in the Willowbend area of Houston (zip code 77035).  Has been on the market for about four months, so we're getting a little anxious.  List price just lowered $359,500.  Rent curr...