Buy a single family rental in Silver Spring in the $400k range that rents in the $3k range, or rent by the room at $1k per month. 4 or 5 br home, youll make.$1-2k in vash flow, plus get steady appreciation. 

I personally feel that many Investors are too focused on Multi family when they should be focused on using their Silver Bullet / Best financing terms to step up and buy a higher priced Primary res. or 2nd home purchases for multiple reasons.However, if this is not an option, then investors should consider avoiding becoming Slum Lords and look at high LTV investment property loans.  

BP has all the information on real estate served up on a silver platter.

However, if I had access to investor money and had some experience and a track record I would invest in Boise and more specifically Eagle, Star and eventually Middleton.

Our market in Alaska, especially the Municipality of Anchorage, which includes the big city, Eagle River, Chugiak, Peters Creek and etc. and the Mat-Su Valley with Palmer, Wasilla, Big Lake and other smaller areas are "hot" now too.

There is a fancy mountain top neighborhood nearby, Eagles Nest in Banner Elk, NC ,that has ATV / Horse riding trails through the rougher terrain that wasn't included in the home lots. 

Sunset Junction area in Silver Lake, Los Angeles around $1800 - $2850+ depending on how nice it is.  

Silver Ridge and others in Mesa, case in point.

An HVAC system on a $450,000, say in Silver Spring is going to be about $6,000...or 1.3% of the property.  

I  always see Wharton being at the top of finance, real estate, etc. in posts and I read that to get in to Wharton you obviously need great grades (which I have) and something like great diversity or something and write a compelling essay on why you should be at Wharton(it's obviously harder than I made it sound), after Highs school I plan on enlisting in the Army for about 6 years, I'm an eagle scout and I am related to a founding father, other than that I dont have much more to put for the "Diversity/Culture section" Back to degrees the reason I don't want to get just a real estate degree is I would like something to fall back on in financing or something similar to real estate developing if the risk in real estate gets too high for me.