Also, I took a look at your BP Profile and I think you actually rehabbed/rent the house that I rented when I was a student at Ohio State!

THey keep seeing my ads, they keep seeing my success, my students success and that motivates them... eventually.Most people use ONE marketing venue and when they use multiple venues they treat them all as individual entities. 

If you are interested in renting to students, you can do that.  

Most college students find housing on Zillow, Realtor, etc. 

I don’t have 2 years of tax returns as I’m a college student.

I see that I might only owe 12% in taxes as I was a college student last year and didn’t make enough money to be in a higher tax bracket.

I am planning to do a house-hack while I finish college but I am held back currently by lack of consistent income due to my student status, which heavily limits financing options, as well as a general limited amount of available cash.I came across the idea of rental arbitrage.

I’m a second year law school student and I want to start investing in real estate.

Most lenders do not use proposed short term rental income when you have no history on your IRS taxes to show the higher rent, they ask the appraiser to come up with a long term rental survey (you pay for this about and extra $200) and that minus 25% expense ratio is compared to the principle interest tax and insurance payment of the propose purchase plus your total housing PITI as if you drew 100% of the HELOC at the maximum rate plus car, credit cards, student loans etc...You need a lease and a deposit payment banked in your checking before docs.No it is not likely or "believable" that your spouse is buying another owner occupied home unless: you can show you are divorcing thus you need divorce decree and whatever expenses from that mess.

My strategy is to rent by room with a specific targeting of college students.