I am 54, W-2 employee (sole income family), and part of a great family of 4, my youngest is a Senior in HS and my oldest is going to University here in Germany.

FYI to the college kids, UC Berkeley (top public university in the nation) after eight years in the Marines was the best vacation I'd ever had.

If debt was included in the NOI, cap rates would be different for everyone (except cash buyers) depending on terms and DP.NOI doesn't include debt service or cap ex so we have a universal base to compare other properties to.

Are there any members who own properties near Arizona University.

It makes no sense for you to be reading how to manage real estate right now unless you have the capital to buy some.If I were in your shoes, I'd be working on figuring out how I can get a high paying job out of university that will help fund your own investment company or getting a job in the RE industry so you can build a network.

After a couple months of attending YouTube university and podcast community college.

I speak at Real Estate conferences and even taught a seminar at Loyola University last summer. 

I feel like I have found that here buying a property within 5 minutes of a major university that pulls students from all around.

I have built a website tested one fb campaign that didn't have much success mainly because I was learning how to use it for the first time and have no idea what I am doing except for watching YouTube University - (I did not advertise as thoroughly as I should have with updating all the fb page info also) and have posted on craigslist and received one call from a non motivated seller looking to just get an evaluation of his property's worth.

I would suggest she buy higher end, newer in a university town.