Eventually, you will either A) graduate and get a better paying job, B) graduate and get a raise, at which point, you may be able to qualify for an FHA loan on a 1-4 unit, and let the games begin.  

Even if you purchased at the height of the bubble...if those people would have held on, that morgage goes to zero eventually.

The options I see are: (1) buying cheap and eventually finding portfolio lending once I hit 10 loans, (2) buy more expensive properties but make sure to always hit my desired COC percent, 1031 when necessary, and hope to find 10 high performing properties that cash flow at ~$6,500/month, (3) sell the bulk of my assets and find an apartment building once I've gotten enough equity/experience to qualify for a commercial loan.

Yes she won $2.4M and it was appealed and eventually settled out of court. 

I have a pretty solid background of working with tools and machinery and a basic house hack would be right up my alley if I could find someone in the same boat to eventually work on a flip or even a rental property.If not I'd love to even just spend sometime on the weekends working with anyone in the Denver area.

@Paul Caputo I don't necessarily plan on selling, but I'm planning on all eventualities if I needed to sell.

Don't have experience with it, but I'm worried if the TX sun beats down on it daily through a window that the adhesive might eventually give and the tile planks might pop over time...any thoughts?  

Joseph Cornwell Far to often, people give up after going through what you did; but the key is to stick with it and keep going and eventually all your efforts paid off.

However, the eventual sale of the property might come down to this very thought process.

Currently have about 9 empties, we will get them rented eventually but recognize the large amount of money lost every month that passes.