My profession is a truck driver traveling thru all 48 states so this makes me say I can invest anywhere and have a property manager run it.

For me, I had failed to make payments on a few credit cards and student loans.

I would not take out student loans or try to keep them at a bare minimum by getting a job and work your way through college.    

Show up to your local lender's office with transcripts and something showing your job description/responsibilities/duties in-hand.In my area, we call this the "Tech Wizard Special" because the CompSci guys go from being starving college students to $250k/yr working for Google overnight, but often without a long-established credit history and only a few months on the job.

This is a college town, as well, with some 30,000 students attending the University of Kentucky and thousands more attending smaller schools.

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I am a college student trying to put some cash I have saved up into a rental property.  

Knowledge in your profession is always important.

My current profession is a career firefighter which I am not giving up.

I'm spending most of my time researching buy and hold strategies for SFRs and possibly student housing in the Athens area.