I was in the SF Bay Area, so we weren't under snow, but during holidays it is still hard to get units rented (Nov until Jan), but I could still rent to students coming to start winter semester at the university next door.

mhmm i know i love my RED STATES lol i also remember taking a criminal justice course and spending half the semester on intent and long story short is if you have a book bag full of drugs and you can prove you did not know they were there you CAN BEAT THE CASE... never actually happened as far as i know but basically if you grabbed your roommates bag by accident and they came in took the charge and explained it but i don't know anyone who has a room mate that is that nice lol MY POINT IS WHO CARES... not legal advice but if you accepted 2 applications at an open house at the same time and they both say they think they want to move in but are not sure... than you get positive reports for both perspective tenants and they both email you at the same time saying yea they are 100% sure they want it and will have a deposit the next day....

URI is the state school in a very small state with high unemployment so I do monthly not semester payments.

They're not college kids living there for just a semester or year.You want to keep good tenants, and if they're already there, then great!

Also, have to make sure student housing costs during the semester are sufficient to cover the slower season of the summer session.

Finishing college this semester and will be working at Marcus & Millichap full time (commercial real estate brokerage firm).

My goal is to purchase a great deal before my son heads to A&M for the Fall 2017 semester.  

You would have to drop-out or only take one class per semester for 1 full year.

They both had empty houses before the semester started and been finding it more difficult than ever, and this is before the new Fox Run complex and dorms are completed.

I'm planning to take couple classes of real state these last two semesters at the university, I guess my question is if that will be actually worth it to do.