This is another group of students and residents that would make for safe choices in renting in terms of a decreased likelihood of being partiers or destructive and an increased probability that they are focused on their career and studies and will be responsible tenants who spend all their time with their nose in a book.It may also have potential for MTRs for traveling nurses or other medical professionals or researchers, though there does only appear to be that one hospital system there due to the relatively small population.Thoughts?

I am the broker of Investing N Florida in Tampa Bay, providing property management for short-term rentals, especially corporate rentals like executives, traveling nurses, oil field turnovers, snowbirds, and more.

This strategy is great, but it fluctuates depending on the time of year, you can still live for free, but it is more challenging since you are only Airbnbing a small space or basement unit. 3) MTR - this is a good in between style of creative strategies since you can furnish a place nicely that would rent out on Airbnb but you want a long-term high quality tenant like a travel nurse or corporate rental that stay for 2-3 months vs. under 30 days for most Airbnbs.Combining strategies is the best way to go, ideally, you would find a house with a separate entrance or walkout basement, live upstairs in the one of the bedrooms, rent out the other upstairs rooms and STR/MTR the bottom unit.

Unless your a nurse.

Kim is a Nurse and I just started working full time managing our business.

In fact, can you share the name of the company since I am thinking of trying the MTR/traveling nurse route with one of our vacant apartment units in San Francisco.  

I am a Colorado native and my brother lives up there and works as the VP of a Architect/Development firm so I am up there a lot.Would love to connect with you about your goals in real estate and see if I can help provide any new nuggets you may not have picked up from the books or podcasts yet.We bought our first house and rented to traveling nurses as a duplex disguised as a SFH in the Denver area and then moving on to do it again in the Arvada area.

Here's what I've found from my experience.1-2 Bedrooms: A Haven for Traveling NursesAfter housing a bunch of traveling nurses, I found that 1-2 bedroom houses (or apts) reign supreme!  

The east side of Athens can be a bit rough (homelessness and crime) it is however getting better with the nursing school being located in the East.

If you have a long-term rental and want to market it to traveling nurses or other renters that may want it for less than one year, you can continue marketing on the long-term sites and consider whether it's worth the effort of creating a short-term rental ad on AirBnB, VRBO, furnishedfinder, etc.