the biggest issues are that the available tenant base drops dramatically around October and doesn't pick up again till the end of the school year.People are no different than animals in that regard.They want to be settled and hunkered down in a property before the school year and/or bad weather starts.Quality tenants with good financial backgrounds don't want to move their families in the middle of an icy,snowy winter for obvious reasons,and good college students have already started school in August.Many of the few available tenants will have questionable backgrounds like recent job loss,previous eviction,bad credit,difficult income verification and don't make 3 times the rent,criminal records,etc.   

Public speaking or communication is more my strong suit.With Rocket Mortgage catering to millennials I'm concerned getting and keeping a MLO license may cost more and yield less.I have a school lined up for either career path.

That's a way, you will stub your toe a ton and guarantee to learn (but who are you learning from, school of hard knocks?) 

My usual approach is to find 3/1 or 3/2 single family houses in a good school district, but my budget will be rather low for this move since my family is staying in OH and we'll be running two households. 

Many of my tenants jobs are in local government and schools so those jobs are going nowhere irregardless of the economy.

My high school music teacher, Merlin Schneider, was from Wapello, IA.  

We want to invest in areas of good school districts, and B or better neighborhoods.

@Marcus Gold, my son will enlist in the Marines when he graduates from high school in June 2017.  

I went to high school with an Adrian Sosa.

There are two schools of thought about treating reserves as expenses.