It isn’t all 🌽 and beans here, but there’s a thriving millennial market, aided by the population/demand of Drake University, Iowa State University, DMACC, Grand View, and Central College students, insurance market (one of the largest in nation, as seen in population of actuaries here, and Drake churns our pharmacists like no other due to their 6 year program), and the building of Facebook, Apple and Microsoft server centers around here due to nice tax breaks.

Being a current college student in the middle of my career, I was mainly looking for any tips/tricks to get started while still in school.

We have worked over the past 3 years to become debt free (student loans) and are now to excited and ready jump into the game.Being new to the area, we do not have many leads on REA who work primarily with investors.

Hi, My name is Christopher Musselman and I am a 21 year old Real Estate student studying at the Leeds School of Business at CU.

Contrary to what everyone thinks not all millenials are losers who live at home, have huge amounts of student debt and make no money lol.

@Danielle Dunn if you are purchasing at Temple university, you may want focus on student rentals. 

I have been looking into several strategies to pay it off and one of my first cousins (who is an international student in the US) has saved up $15k and would like to partner with me/ lend me the money to buy the rental.My strategy was to use his money to pay off my 401k loan balance and then do the roll over into a self-directed IRA to buy the rental under my name so that he has the option to live in it (if it's a multi family) and rent the rest.I have done a great deal of research and it looks like as long as I don't live in the rental and also make sure that all the transactions are done within the IRA, then it should be straightforward. 

I was also thinking of investing in Peterborough because I have lived there for 4 years and know it has a strong student rental market.

One of the students asked about the requirement that someone had to be turned down by two banks before they could apply for an SBA loan.

Put some ownership on your kids, they can work a job during school to help pay for a majority of the remaining costs and take student loans out for the rest if they still need more.