They used that period of unemployment to skip paying student loans and then try to get some kind of program/hardship deferral or something aka "gaming the system".

I'm a little confused--are 2 of your 3 properties MTR's that you rent to international students?

If you're a single mom with student loans, a car payment, and living paycheck-to-paycheck, then $20,000 would be devastating and a reserve is critical.

Initially, this might seem like a great idea as you can maximize rental income by renting out bedrooms kind of like college student rentals.

In that case, reaching out to the office of student housing at the college or posting your listing on Facebook pages that are created for student housing searches for that college can be a good marketing strategy.

Apartments, Student Housing, Self Storage, Commercial, etc.The SEC classifies a DST as a security so they must be purchased from a financial advisor.The costs very A LOT by financial advisor and DST Sponsor.

Most of the easy "lipstick on a pig" transformations are gone - you're often looking at more serious rehabs to make the numbers work.That said, we do have some advantages: strong rental market (lots of students, young professionals), still relatively affordable deals, and good appreciation potential in many neighborhoods.

A spokesperson for the school said Mendenhall had not been a paid university employee but had coached as a volunteer in 2001.In 2008, he started a seminar program for would-be real estate investors called Tax Auction Advisors, according to company filings.His students there coaxed him into starting his first funds, he said in a video on the website for the seminar company, which remains in operation.

My best student  crossed the 1 million mark in net worth and he is in his early 30s!

I was a student with these guys for 2 months, yeah, I actually signed up, Curtis sold the heck out of the program to me.