The bad egg has a 505 credit score with almost $130K in debt between student loans, car, and credit card debt.

They want to down size and most aren't looking to buy new homes.Many members of the next largest group, millennials, have tremendous amounts of student loan debt keeping them out altogether or making them push off the purchase of a home. 

Since you mentioned you are in school, it may be worth trying to find a group of students to start a RE investing club and bring in speakers from the industry to give talks.

@Emily Turner  Since Athens is a college town, I'd seek out the buy and hold investors that do student rentals.  

@Mitch Messer thank you, and yes I know I need to be at least 18, sorry i didn't mention this earlier, however like you said i am starting to research this now in order to get ahead and develop a good plan for my future.My parents are aware that i have the intention of property investment as soon as i turn 18 to provide a supplementary income originally whilst i'm a student, with hopes to expand and grow as soon as possible

There are tons of numbers and interconnected relationships going on in our professional commercial multifamily spreadsheet.

Hello - I am 24 years old and have recently stopped playing minor league baseball and plan to go back to school in the state of Virginia to finish my degree. I’ll be there for one year. I found a duplex ( 3 and 3 unit...

What I see a lot in your situation is cosigners for each student and one student pays rent with auto pay .

The University of Lowell has a major shortage of housing for their graduate students and visiting professors. 

not so much if you're the student.