You may want a dog or different paint color.

I hope it all turns out roses in the end for you. 

For the record during the past twelve months I've been aggressively acquiring gold, silver, rare colored diamonds and working on a redevelopment rental in Mexico as I felt the dollar had peaked.

What color is the roof?

And then again in 2010 and that one was not by choice the market cratered :(  got to stop and smell the Roses sometime and although owning rentals is as every one says Passive there is still a certain amount of work and if your doing your own PM and rehab then thats a TON of work.

Assuming that once I graduated, and my income rose life and money would finally be easier.

A couple of years ago I sent out 5,000 professionally designed color postcards 8" x 5".

However, the median asking rent rose 4.6% over the same period in the Midwest and 1.2% in the Northeast to $1,434 and $2,509, respectively... 

If you only do the front at least you wont have 3 different colors going on that don't match. 

They kept buying on the open market once the flood of foreclosures subsided, offering all cash and not quibbling about ugly carpet or paint colors.