Depending on your employer's plans, you may have to use some of your "use it or lose it" benefits urgently.Save for college.

Secondary markets like Temple, Belton, Killeen, and College Station offer better options for cash flow currently.

I think most of the students at those two colleges are commuters anyhow.

We plan on buying in Columbia sc and im thinking of buying property near the hospitals and college and renting to collage studies and short turn nurse rental. 

They're offering the lot since you international builder to refund all deposits.

And yeah Marquette, MI is an appreciating market and a college town where everyone complains about increasing rents (and their bad landlords).Hopefully I can still find a few properties that can cash flow anything, no matter how small, with zero down but I'll have to see if they'll pass VA inspection too.

Are you asking if you should quit college and go into real estate?

We handled everything in-house from the point that we acquired the properties to listing them on our website and pushing them out thru an internal sales force that did outbound calls to investors.

Work for free for someone, intern, do something and see if you even like it or not. 

Allen, you mentioned your kids going to college.