That puts almost 275k in her pocket which is a lot of money given her profession.  

Unlike some other folks, due to the nature of your job/profession, you might not want to be an active real estate investors (could be wrong here).

Pros: Let's say West Hyattsville is closer to more amenities and can tap into the University of Maryland student market, without having to be in College Park.

Some experience is preferable in negotiating.If there is any way you can owner-occupy the house whilst renting out the rooms to the students, you will get a more favorable treatment from the bank in terms of loan and interest rates.

Hastings and Kearney in particular have decent sized college student bases which can give you a good rental pool if you are willing to rent to that group.

Quick assumptions as you said you are a student:- You are low on capital and experience in real estate.- You are rich with time, ambition, and energy.** Focus on the latter. 

He was a student of Roop and then became a coach.

I am a doctoral student with: [list]little debt (car loan and 35k in student loans), little assets (3k in an index fund, 7k in a target retirement fund/Roth IRA, 1k in individual stocks, 5k in cash), little income (just my student stipend of less than $20,000/year and another $2-3000 from web design and illustrating jobs on the side), and a little family (wife and two kids).

I am a second year law student.

Everyone is targeting students...that's the problem.