FYI,  my parents are old school 1st gen immigrants who typically do things the hard way due to ignorance, language barrier, and cultural differences.  

FYI,  my parents are old school 1st gen immigrants who typically do things the hard way due to ignorance, language barrier, and cultural differences.  

Place to live, neighborhood, schools if you have kids, close to work, rate of expected appreciation, property potential for profit, tax benefits, best use of your money?????????

Sam Zell said at a conference he spoke that he started by managing and acquiring properties in Ann Arbor, Michigan during his grad school years.

I go to school at the College at Brockport, which is about 20 minutes away from the Rochester, NY area, and I believe Rochester is a great place to invest.

You just need to understand the "risk".My husband is active duty so we tend to invest in areas that we are stationed (although we have never been stationed in Charleston, my husband just went to school there).

Example: Rooms, Bedrooms, parking, lot, community, School, History prices, history of owner.

I spent a chunk of my savings on schooling earlier this year so I will need to wait till 2016 to add another property.

(No new blood, no new money, no drive to improve the neighborhood or the schools.)What about the homeless?  

This is more a cash flow deal, to help me live on while I go to school.