Scott The Book on Flipping Houses,The Book on Estimating ReHab Costshttp://www.biggerpockets.com/flippingbookLocate and attend 3 different local REIA club meetings great place to meet people gather resources and info.Consider checking out HUD homes for small multi's owner occupied gets first crack.You might consider Niche or Specialized Housing like student housing.

At the end of the course, I would tell my students that they now had enough knowledge to go out and learn more.Book knowledge can get you so far.

And you get the benefit of having 40 past ones to catch up on.Locate and attend 3 different local REIA club meetings great place to meet people gather resources and info.Consider checking out HUD homes for small multi's owner occupied gets first crack.You might consider Niche or Specialized Housing like student housing.

Saving up $10K for a down payment might not seem that crazy when you're used to seeing prices in the 500K range, but typically people that live in areas with 20K - 100K properties are probably making south of 50K a year and likely supporting a family or a paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle.I actually market almost all of my rentals to students and people in transitional states of their lives (young professionals mainly).

Will probably add that into a lease when I have a family living in a SF investment of mine down the line.At the moment, I rent to students and you probably can guess they will neglect to take care of the exterior maintenance.

DON'T do it....we had a biology teacher rent an old SFH we acquired.She secreted in a collection of rodents, the ferrets were the most disgusting.After her 3 yr lease was up we were going to rehab the place anyway.

I was not the brightest student in my ESL class.

This was probably a college roommate rental up until now, he could very well be done with spotty occupation and student hygiene.

I currently work as a nurse and I dont think there is a single job out there harder than that....I'd like something to fall back on when my back gives out.Other than nursing I'm a full time masters student set to get my family nurse practitioner in 2 years.

Since I'm showing the house to other prospects anyway, I just tell them to come and see the house anyway, bad credit or not.But hey, someone's going to cave in and rent to her.It makes me sad the prospects around here are just awful.Maybe I'll find better candidates in May or June.High schools and colleges should really make it mandatory for students to take a course on money management.