@Andrew Frishman - here is some food for thought to get you started: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/11782/84402-how-to-evaluate-a-sponsor Feel free to DM me with any specific questions, I have invested in multiple deals as a LP and as a GP.

I'm in Canada where tuition is different (not as expensive as the US), but the biggest expense I see is what students pay for housing and food, not their tuition (US is likely different).Real estate investing is not passive and not something you can live off.

To my surprise, I can count on two hands how many times a seller/agent has actually called/emailed me to verify the POF.Often, one can obtain a letter from their bank stating the account holder's name, the date, current balance, etc... and that should be more than enough to meet anyone's requests. 

Just some food for thought for those who invest in mortgage notes and think buying seconds cheap gets you in the business at a low barrier to entry  - it is cheap until you have to reinstate or payoff a first lien.

I appreciate the food for thought.

Despite current unemployment rates maintaining below 5%, the recent rise from 3.8% to 4.2%(recently revised to 4.1%) is significant, especially when considering wage growth adjusted for inflation.Over the last few years, the median household income has dropped by 7.2% when adjusted for inflation (and this isn't even considering volatile food and energy prices), a troubling trend given that inflation has outstripped income growth.

One of my Bizz partners was the President of STauffer foods ( a Nestle company) He would talk about how important it was to personally hear feed back..

There is no such thing as FREE college, FREE food, FREE housing, FREE health care.

Factors such as competition, food trends, lack of management, ingress etc, can close these stores. 

You can't predict how someone will react to any circumstance.Let me ask you this:Where would you go if you were a hungry lion in the savannas of Africa to find food?