A long time property manager and investor in the area was the "professor".Also, attend your local REIA meeting and get to know people.

I found BiggerPockets through my professor from my Principles of Real Estate course.

I had considered an MTR, medium-term rental, using FurnishedFinder or another specialty profession-based platform for nurses, soldiers, professors, etc.

In college I had a professor who would put deadlines on projects in a very short time window (twenty page paper due in two days).

I tell them that whatever you can learn in school is likely to be a few years old, because the professor probably hasn't been doing it in real time and the textbook is written, edited, etc. to the point that most of the material will be at least 3 years old by the time the book is in print.

I was told by a real estate professor that "What you're in debt by at 30 is what you'll be worth by the time you're 40".

The majority of College doesn't help with real estate investment directly.Things you can learn make a great business plan, and other accounting and business skills.Things that can help you like making connections and networking.Getting an introduction from a professor, who sings your praises as an "enthusiastic and self-starter".

They were adjunct professors and didn't get the course load they were expecting and took an income hit.

An economics professor said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class.

Years later I saw one for sale on Ebay and gave up bidding when it hit $2,000.Now days for a introduction and foundation to note investing I would recommend you get Napier's book, and Tom Henderson's "The note professor" course/book (cheap) and free newsletter at his HPNOTES.COM site.