I have never had to evict a tenant that I screened (knock on wood).

Knock wood.We bought it from a hedge fund for 12.5k put less then 5k in and have it rented for $975 a month.  

On finds "deals" by: door knocking off a foreclosure list or every door, mailing a direct mail campaign.  

Or knock on doors and bring a deal for a finders fee.

Just because I'm upstairs does not mean you can just knock on the door for any ol' thing.

She told me to stop knocking on her door yesterday, and then spray painted a line on the concrete in front of her door.

For example, if you want to buy single family ranges in a particular town, that narrows the search down and then you can move on onto step 3Step 3: Find contact info for every one of these people: cell phone, home phone, emails, social media profile, home address, etcStep 4: Put the information into a database: I like using a CRM like Follow Up Boss, but you can use an excel sheet to startStep 5: Market to these people: call(on a dialer), email, message on social media, door knock, mail, etc. until you get one on one appointments with themStep 6: Make offers that allow you enough room to make money

I agree with @Jeff Sheraton and @Mike D'Arrigo that the student loan interest will be negligible vs the return you could receive in the KCMO area; enough to pay off your debt even while you're still knocking out your Master's.Best of luck and congrats again on making the decision to invest at such an early age.

For example, if you want to buy single family ranges in a particular town, that narrows the search down and then you can move on onto step 3Step 3: Find contact info for every one of these people: cell phone, home phone, emails, social media profile, home address, etcStep 4: Put the information into a database: I like using a CRM like Follow Up Boss, but you can use an excel sheet to startStep 5: Market to these people: call(on a dialer), email, message on social media, door knock, mail, etc. until you get one on one appointments with themStep 6: Make offers that allow you enough room to make moneyEven as a brand new investor, you do not have to have money to do these deals.

I used a loan from my solo 401k to knock out the last of my consumer debt, and to leverage towards buying a property and am also investing with my solo 401(k).