Looking at rentals for college students

With these deals you have to risk some capital and thats where I find the average investor especially here on BP that is very much rental ( IE has to cash flow day one ) simply will not entertain these deals.. you also have to be willing to walk from 50k or 100k if it turns against you..  

And IMHO, the prices are dropping big time (on avg. 10K/month...houses that were above 300K a year ago are not selling at 250K now) and the available rentals saturation is worse than I seen during summer season (with rents dropping from 1$-1.08/sqft to 0.8$/sqft and very little contacts and applications...just go in Zillow and look how many rentals are on the market now in Kyle, New Braunfels or Converse). 

We have owned rentals in the past as well. 

Hello @Daniel Summer,The Memphis market has a solid MHA/Sec 8 rental.

To transition to multi-family properties, research landlord-friendly states like Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Indiana with favorable eviction laws, lower taxes, and higher rental demand.

Doing short-term rentals would be very interesting.

Half the team focuses on long term rental management and the other half focuses on short term.

The loft is very successful on Airbnb and people love the main house for long term rental.

These are not long-term rental properties, and our guests are traveling to the desert for vacation, not because they need a place to live for two nights on a weekend.