I will be sure to stay in touch.

In your neighborhood, you don't want to have a vacancy very long, because things can tend to 'go missing'.If one tenant has sufficient income to qualify based on your standards, but the (probably) student with no social (BTW, get a copy of their visa for your records, and proof they are a full-time student) does NOT have provable income or background, the ONLY way to go is to get first, last and security.Since you are living there, you will have a better handle on the day-to-day, and you MUST stay on top of things. 

If I purchase the property, do I inherit the reviews for the property or do those reviews stay with the owners profile?

Personally, I would stay away from hard money without experience.

Thanks again to BiggerPockets for helping me to stay motivated and achieve the first of my goals.

There are lots of options as long as you are staying in the educational realm.

Stay out of consumer debt.

The whole county steps fiasco also contributes to me staying away from them.

I have five or six brokers that I am staying in contact in the Chicago western suburbs, and I also have several in the South Bend, Indiana market as well. 

AirBNB guests average stay is 2.9 nights, VRBO is 4.1.