Assuming you continue to live modestly, you will come out of college more wealthy than when you entered it.

If anyone has any tips or tricks to a first-timer, feel free to leave a reply (especially curious about standard practices for identifying deals).

Hello, I am brand new to REI, I am currently renting an apartment with my brother, in college, and graduate next May.

So, unless you are an SEO manager, I think that's a tough road to go down. 1:1 link exchanges go against Google's guidelines and best practices so I wouldn't advocate for that. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policiesMost one-size-fits-all all SEO companies are going to want to spend a lot of your management fee doing work that real estate investor-focused SEO companies don't need to do. 

We were pretty good kids in college, but of course we had parties and made our share of messes.

Springfield is known for its multiple colleges in the area.

Written by attorney investors, it's full of practical advice pertaining to management of investment property, has sample forms that can be edited, and - most importantly - they tell you what your primary state laws are and where you can read them.

We have three children; two in college, one leaving for college next year.

Highly unethical company What practices do they do specifically that were unethical?

PREDATORY business practices, truly shameful.