Buy or inherit and hold all their lives while working the properties for income.I've seen teachers, firemen, software engineers and all sorts of people utilize both strategies successfully.

These rules, which include a requirement that sellers set aside a portion of the purchase price for buyer-agent commissions, prohibitions on modifying the commission, and permission to filter listings by commission, all enable NAR, its co-defendants, and its members to maintain buyer-agent commissions at supra-competitive levels unrelated to brokers’ experience or the services provided, steer home buyers away from lower commission homes, and drive out discounters—among other harms."

My daughter will be going to college later this year and this has prompted me to begin in earnest learning about student housing with the goal of owning my first property by the time she matriculates.Who are the thought leaders and teachers around student housing here?

With seven years post-graduation, I have accumulated eight years of experience in the restaurant industry and am currently working as a teacher assistant.

This could help offset some of the high construction costs and enable you to offer lower rents to tenants.2.Consider mixed-use development: Instead of solely building apartment buildings, you could also consider incorporating commercial spaces such as retail stores or offices into the development.

Go multi and learn from a proven teacher like @Ben LeybovichSee his modestly priced program athttp://justaskbenwhy.com/Find a problem, offer a solution.

Where photos are provided, they are not with GPS tagging enabled so I can never validate if it is actually my property3) Poor communication4) Most services are in-house, so even if the work is not legitimate, they own the handymen that write the invoices to make it look legitThanks for posting.

Self-directed retirement account investing does enable investors to have the cake and it too - but not all at once.Best of luck!   

I am a high school teacher, not a landlord.

My parents were teachers and never were able to give my brother and I much of what they would've liked for us to have.