I've been a real estate investor my entire life, doing my first deal as a senior in high school ($5,000 mobile home).

BP has built a great selection, all of them worth reading and that will help you build foundational knowledge.To answer this one: the words from old school investor Dolf De Roos "seldom sell" and you will find a lot of post on BP from people who regret selling properties in the past.

These I have found are real, striving parents, working their butts off to provide the best housing and school system for their children.My ethos in this approach is exactly why we at LaPlante refer to them as Residents, as we consider "Tenant and Landlord" to be dated terms and rife with negative emotion.

-> WInding creek- Good schools, costly good rents.     

Northern NJ is not the best place for retirement but it is a great place to raise a family due to the great schools and for those needing easy access to NYC.

For them, it's truly the old-school idea of a second home. 

When I was 22 I had to move from my home town to Las Vegas in pursuit of HVAC trade school.

Dropped out of 10th grade to make money for his family and so the younger ones could make the "payments" to go to high school.

I know the university, the med school, and the hospital are there, so surely an MTR would work well.

Misinformation stating that the guru dropped out of school, was fired from his job, failed in his business startup, but when he discovered” the “secret” of real estate investing, met with almost instantaneous success7.