This is 100% not our business model and we teach our students the same.

[Similar to the Student Loan Bail-out where people who made different (and smarter) choices, are forced to give up  their hard earned money to others.]2) When is this country going to really realize that we are headed down a steep slope to ruin?

You will be able to market to all the Naval Aviation students.

However, they eventually became blinded by profits and began heavily marketing to high schools students.

Is the appeal to having it in/near Tempe renting it out to college students? 

Second largest metro area in Alabama with a population of over 500,000 when including Baldwin County, of which over 40,000 individuals commute from for work.3. 7.5 miles from downtown is The University of South Alabama which employs more than five thousand people, and has over 15,000 students.

Greetings from Las Vegas! I am brand new to real estate investing.  Right now I am flooding my mind with books, blogs, videos and conferences, trying to learn as much as I can.  I feel at this point trapped by the Ana...

The Dallas one was 13 miles away from SMU in a submarket that will likely not draw one student, one faculty member, or even one employee from SMU. 

Interest rate are a factor and your debt of 55K and any other debt such as Cars, student loans....  

I've always compared rent-by-room to student housing.