The front building is a mixture of garages and apartments and will be converted to only apartments during construction, the building located in the rear of the property is completely garages and will be torn down for the more profitable (and nicer looking) self storage buildings.We have never managed self storage previously, but my advisors company is going to aid us with software install, filling units, and management (and we are compensating them a % of revenue).

@Brian Puebla Why are you starting out with the most capital intensive enterprise.

Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment.Take out all the "-eths" and you have sound advice for any business/investing enterprise in 2019!

For example a University of California academic year will cost about $15,000 before financial aid and scholarships. 

It also opens up avenues for them to start requesting like and kind reimbursements for living expenses, and they could keep trying to come to that well every time.If you do choose to give aid, I wouldn't do it as a rent credit, but a receipt reimbursement. 

It also involved land trusts to aid in offering the best financing options while also offering you anonymity.

It seems like fortune 500 companies like Walgreens, Rite Aide etc. seem to be less risk than say a small dental office. 

They drank the "STR is the best investment" Kool-aid and bought a decent property, but not one that stood out from the other 20,000+ STRs in the area and did not want to invest money to theme it.Like others have said, I think it comes down to your goals. 

Hello my wife and I are looking to invest in our 1st rental property and were wondering how the investment effects our 2 teenage children's ability to qualify for college fonancial aid.

Try contacting a local housing authority, or see if there is a free legal aid service in the area and talk to them, they should be able to help you.