After graduating college with a degree in both marketing and finance I transitioned to the lending side of the real estate industry.

I will not go into the mathematics, but anyone that is a MBA graduate should know from his course work that the market place equalizes demand and supply against pricing.  

In the past, once people graduated high school/college they moved out and it was socially embarrassing living with your parents.

Quote from @Wayne Toh: Hi BiggerPockets Community , I’ve just recently graduated and is working in the bay area.

If you are looking at protecting your profit, you can have a prepayment penalty, that would be graduated, for instance, you could have a $50,000 prepay year 1, then $45,000 year 2 and so on until you get to year 10 with no pre payment penalty.Also for future reference you can get Fix and Flip loans without having to tap into the equity in your primary residence.

Now I have graduated to entire parks. 

If the buyer has no capital and is a recent “graduate” of a guru mentorship program and needs to borrow the earnest money, then disaster is predetermined. 

I have a real estate finance degree, but decided to pursue a different career field post graduation.

I am currently living in a house in my college town my parents own (My older brother went to the same school, but is now graduated).

Also, you will never do what we tell you to do because it's hard, not easy, so...My son who 1) is not stupid, he is graduating from UCSB next month 2) has been around my rentals and me his entire life 3) in high school had a fairly successful handyman business with a dozen part-time employees, indicated he wanted to be a real estate investor.