Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with zero or negative relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560, little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

And you would only qualify for that if your primary job (where you spend the most hours) is in a real estate field, but also it has to be at a business that you own at least 5% of (so W-2 income typically doesn't qualify). 

Creative financing is where the most opportunity is right now.

However,jobs and other commits result in the decision to sell .

REPS is tough to qualify for if you have a full time W-2-paying job or company outside of real estate.If you get trapped with PALs, consider utilizing 1231 gain in conjunction with long term rentals.Current year deductions are only great if you can use them now! 

Self managing 50 units is not an easy task, it’s not at all impossible but it will likely be a full time job.

Since you are just graduating college you may already realize that it's not what you know, but who you know (as a personal note, I had college friends that were barely passing their classes however they ended up with really good paying jobs due to "who they knew").

Here’s my FavoriteThat Don Konipol, @Chris Seveney, and @Jay Hinrichs don’t know what they’re talking about but the paid actor with no experience hired as the front man guru by the real estate “education” marketer operating out of Las Vegas charging $40,000 for the “platinum” level mentorship is providing not only correct information but all the education anyone needs to successfully quit their job and earn financial freedom by brokering mortgage notes. 

3) way the cost against other opportunities the money can be used for.  

Looking for investment opportunities, somewhere between 1.0 - 2.9M.Thank you.