Regardless, I'm branching out into rural land investing a la Seth Williams as well as a student rental house to hopefully generate some better returns and overall positive REI juju!  

Now decuct any payments that would appear on your credit (car payment, student loan, credit card min payment).

and the insane taxes ;pPittsburgh has a few university and medical hospitals in the city so you have a varied choice of investment, from Student, low income, to professional. 

@Robert Ellis I really like how it is a turnkey, being that I am still a full time student.

Sure you could invest in Lubbock TX, with flat (compared to inflation or national average) economic growth with a huge transient population of about 1/5 - 1/4 being college students and succeed in getting around 1%.

A student loan or car loan with a specified end date is probably fine, especially if you are a parent willing to just pay it off yourself if problems arise later.

Enrollments drop in a college town like mine, some of those teachers will be doing something else, it's hard enough justifying some of them now, but if students drop out due to lack of funding, you'll see an economics prof selling apples.

She is a college student and has a full time job.

You might consider Niche or Specialized Housing like student housing.

The location is about 5 blocks from a university so i'm thinking of renting out to students - or perhaps the school itself , they have bought up as much property as they can already.