But if you're going to be concentrating on education for the next 2 years I would purchase something like a 2 - 4 first so that it's not on your mind more than your studies.  

I am retired military and have just retired from my W2 position to concentrate on real estate.

If millennials prefer to rent, areas that have a higher concentration of millennials would have a more competitive rental market and a less competitive purchase market.

Do you know the rating and concentrations of the underlying assets, and who the sponsors were?

Should be concentrating on 30-40% LTV handy-man specials for rehabbers?

If you don't love what you do, naturally a sane person will give up when times get really tough.I studied business as an undergrad and got my MBA with a real estate concentration even though I was in a completely different industry at the time.

I've been really tempted to get into the MFR arena, but it seems like Vegas is heavily concentrated with SFHs.  

I think the biggerpockets meetup would be more concentrated on BP blogs and content.

Gary suggested that if you need to increase net operating income (NOI), consider raising the rent by $15 for the unit type performing exceptionally well.Increasing Occupancy: In cases where increasing occupancy is the priority, Gary suggested concentrating on the unit type with the highest vacancy rate.

If these are 19 pads that have been rented for 15 years, that is pretty good if any majority concentration of those 19 pads has a good long term rent to it, you are doing pretty good.You will want to look at the rent roll and get an idea of what sort of non payment or late payment risk you are getting into as well.