I like to go and listen and have always felt the membership worth while.

Am I dreaming thinking that this is a worthwhile buy and hold investment?

Worthwhile discussion.I agree categories should be reduced and simplified. 

Under these circumstances, what makes you think holding the property as a rental is going to be worthwhile?  

When homes fell into that range, I would jump on viewing & making offers if it was worthwhile (built in equity and would cash flow & hopefully would appreciate). 

Unless you're going to be doing enough transactions to make it worthwhile for you to get your Realtor license, I think getting a good Realtor in your corner is well worthwhile, especially on the selling side. 

I worked at a university for a few years, and my other half went to university and rented in a smallish town with *lots* of student housing rentals.If a rental property you're thinking about buying is immediately adjacent to land the university owns, even if it's just a vacant lot, it might be worthwhile to ask the university about their expansion plans. 

If you can purchase this property at a significant discount, it might be worthwhile.  

I'm also wondering if the Lancaster meetings are worthwhile.  

One of these was offered to us essentially for free, but it would take half-a-million to update the property(energy efficiency, modern electrical and plumbing, etc) yet retain its 1880s majesty ... we would need to cut it into three ~1600 sq ft units (one per floor), but would need to be able to sell them for ~300K to make the project worth while ... the market just isn't there at this time.