I'm normally not one that advocates trigger-happy decisions, but IMO this kind of investing needs solid boots on the ground, and you're out of town.

These days, a couple of things seem to be affecting how and where college age students are attending classes. The use of online classes has been increasing every year and are projected to continue to increase. Also,...

Based on a gut check (checking the town population + location on google maps), this may be the case. 

Killeen is a good cash flow market, but you have to buy in the right area and also time your tenant turnover to the Permanent Change of Station (PCS) season since it is predominately military town

If you do more than one unit this way make sure you don't need a boarding house license in your town. 

I am an out of state investor and looking at duplexes in fort valley close to fort valley state university. They could positive cashflow and i believe there should be good rental demand from student population but i a...

@Vivian Huang  Town or beach it depends whether you're buying for investment purposes or for yourself or both.I'm buying mostly for investment purposes.

Hopefully they will see you are not screwing around and will leave on their own.I hope you got a great deal on this property, because tenants in place are a liability, not an asset, in the Empire State.Now, who loves NY (besides our many "guests from out of town")?

The other issue is that town is a one trick pony. 

I know there are some STR regulations, but it seems there are plenty of parts of town where it can be done.