I'd like to keep the house for long-term appreciation since it's in a good school district and has low crime.

A college student getting an engineering degree should consider different approaches, even if he decides to deploy some/all of the inheritance in real estate, than a high school dropout working a minimum wage job. 

Gwinnett County has fantastic school systems so rental demand is strapping. 

What are the schools like? 

Will some people invest, yes - but if you had two of the same products and one that was doing it the way it has been done for 100 years and one with the new technology for investing, the people with the $ typically will choose the old school way and not want to be caught up in the next FTX. 3.

The Lakeland elementary school is actually in the development and it is either a 9 or 10 on Greatschools.com.  

If it is a larger house and the renter group is families consider that moving in the school year is less common.

My ideal property is a detached single-family distressed, 3/1 or 3/2 home in an A or B neighborhood with good schools, ideally in the $200K-$300K range.

*In addition to the $7,000 weekly salary that she drew from ORES, Van Gundymisappropriated more than $5.7 million in investor funds for her own personal use, spending thosefunds on a variety of purposes, including payments for her nanny, private school tuition for herchildren, veterinarian bills and boarding costs for horses, cash withdrawals, auto payments, retailstores, and debt extinguishment, among other personal expenses*

I've walked in on Squatters, High school kids, former tenants, some rather angry Racoons, Stray Dogs and even one unhappy Deer.Even though I always knock, shout out throughout the house that I am there and who I am, try to keep an open escape route and continue to call out as I go.