We were going to try to rent to a professor, or to an assistant, or to grad students.

@Kevin Phu there are a few other professions that are allowed to access the MLS you would have to check with your state to find out the complete list. 

Day 2, I attended the Marketing/Wholesaling, Student Housing & MultiFamily homes, the Top 10 MultiFamily Syndication Mistakes, the panel on MultiFamilies, Turning Class A Properties into Profitable Cash, and the Digital Marketing presentation for Visibility & Sales.  

It's frustrating, because of the delays we missed out on leasing to students (its very close to a college), and now the garage apartment renovations probably wont be finished until around Thanksgiving.

I am currently a college student at FIU.

Seeing that your profession is titled as a "lender" I am not sure if you meant you were going to work for a bank or meant you wanted to get a real estate license here.

At first I was thinking that I would wait until I payed off my student loans to start investing, but now I'm thinking I may try and purchase some cash flowing properties to help cover my student loan payments so I can use my income to save for more.

Excellent choice -- both of profession and community. 

Real estate investment is a great supplement to teaching, and if you love teaching, which I'm sure you do, the income that you receive from real estate investing can relieve you from the financial burdens that unfortunately those of us in the teaching profession now I have to endure.

Mortgage is 219k@ 4% interest, we pay 120$ in PMI within the 2300.Our student and car loans are around 100k@ an average of 5% interest, with a monthly payment of 1400.