Last I looked, there were a couple of interesting opportunities in Tempe, but then you are dealing with ASU students, and a whole different set of problems.Good luck

You are missing the most important thing you can buy yourself,an education.You need to meet with professional wholesalers who have been doing this successfully for some time and ask them how they do it.Apprentice yourself to them for free doing their ground pounding work learning the business as a young college student intern would.Learn how to put together a large list of cash buyers and flippers who need the properties you find to sell them.Learn how to carve out a good territory to farm that has several homes sold in the last two years for top dollar prices and sold the fastest (less than 30 days).Learn how to use postal workers,utilities people,and others to spot bad houses that might be able to be bought cheap.Use high school students involved in sports teams or band to seed your farm with cards and fliers door to door at every property and give them a tax deductible donation to their groups.Promise them a bigger wad of cash if you sell a house they bird dog for you(tax deduction!).

They will use student loans to pay rent.  

Seems to be very attractive for students and the like and definitely can charge a premium.

Besides the population, Columbus has OSU graduating 6000+ students a year, we just received a huge grant to be one of the first "smart cities" in the country, areas around downtown like Old Town East and Merion Village just to name a few have made huge advances in revitalization just in the past 2 years.  

Now, you might ask me, “Vinney, I would like to actually have all my students take an excel worksheet and write down the area they’re going to penetrate and also the broker’s name, their phone number, their e-mail in the next column, and then the brokerage house, realty house that they belong to and then you put ten different columns: first contact, second contact third contact, fourth contact, fifth contact.

I was also interested if the community has any good reads on student rentals.

Im currently a college student and want to get into multi family apartments soon.

If you have Student Loans or other household debt - develop a plan to accelerate paying them off. 3.

I wanted to get some feedback on what seasoned investors would do given the below mentioned projections offered in a 65-unit syndication:65 units recently remodeled/upgraded insides built in 1992 – 2000 (Class C)Tertiary Market 3min from a medium size university (~11,000 students)New roofs, New siding, New parking lots, Some new HVACs 4% Vacancy Rate due to units finishing remodelingListed Cap Rate 8%Value Add: Rents are 20 – 25% below marketProjected returns:Exit Strategy no more than 5 years65/35 Equity Split8% Preferred Return17 – 18% Annual Average Return15 – 16% Internal Rate of Return10.9% Average Cash on Cash Return87% Overall Return on Investment