I can't speak for campus rentals as I have yet to tackle that beast.

Currently, I own and manage a 6 unit apartment building in Miami, FL and have put together a small pot to tackle my first fix-and-flip. 

Carl -when you closed on your second property in August did you look into getting one semester tenants (i.e. potential students moving off campus their second semester or students transferring to Marist from other universities).I really appreciate you guys starting this thread as both my partner and I tackle this new territory of student rentals.

All,When looking at properties to rehab, which repairs are generally too much to tackle?

The individual rate living below the poverty level is 36.4%; the family rate is 31.3%.[50]Urban decay[edit]This map shows vacancy rates of housing units in Wayne County, Michigan, and also in the city of Detroit.Dance floor of the Vanity Ballroom Building in 2010.The Film Exchange Building in 2012.Detroit has been described by some as a ghost town.[51][52] Parts of the city are so abandoned they have been described as looking like farmland, urban prairie, or even completely wild.[48]A significant percentage of housing parcels in the city are vacant, with abandoned lots making up more than half of total residential lots in many large portions of the city.[53] With at least 70,000 abandoned buildings, 31,000 empty houses, and 90,000 vacant lots, Detroit has become notorious for its urban blight.[51][54]In 2010 Mayor Bing put forth a plan to bulldoze one fourth of the city.[55] The plan was to concentrate Detroit's remaining population into certain areas to improve the delivery of essential city services, which the city has had significant difficulty providing (policing, fire protection, trash removal, snow removal, lighting, etc.).[51] In February 2013 the Detroit Free Press reported the Mayor's plan to accelerate the program.[56] The project has hopes "for federal funding to replicate it [the bulldozing plan] across the city to tackle Detroit’s problems with tens of thousands of abandoned and blighted homes and buildings."

nodeId=200375630Also, this page http://www.biggerpockets.com/contact actually works (since I'm one of those who tackle those mails) Hope to see you around the site and thanks for purchasing the book!

I wanna get my hands dirty in REI first then start to tackle more and bigger projects.

I will try and walk on egg shells as I tackle each one. 

Most of the local investors i've meet with at various meetings here in Portland have ranged from innocuous glad handers and ignorant flim-flamers to foppish popinjays and incorrigible glad-handers.

very good questionI've been tackling a the question of how fast and how much. to the point where i crossed out 2 units MF as not being enough unless each units has 3 bedrooms,  and looking at small apartment building. granted my searches are based on affordability so I'm home learning do the analysis will bring me back to where i need to be as far as what my plan dictates.