My main concern is excessive damages from college students.

At the 3 - 5 year mark, your $500k would hopefully have grown to $750 - $800k, you'll have a good understanding of the financial and operational side of managing apartment deals if you were a diligent student, and you will have a network of mentors and potential investors to join you when you become the lead investor on your own project.

I said the "R" word... relationships, this business is all about relationships, I remember there was one property that I really would have loved to get and renovate, I got to know the family and even was able to negotiate them down to $10k for the property as it was (needed about 50k in rehab), the deal fell apart because of title issues that the owner did not even know about (ex-husband stuff), at the end she was crying because she felt she had done us a disservice by not being able to sell the property.

A Lot of med students, residency doctors and RN's love Point Breeze due to its accessibility to Upenn, Drexel, Jefferson, etc..

University Of Pennsylvania, Carnegie University students and High Tech Engineers moving there and looking for properties rent/lease.

The site is in a phenomenal location being within short walking distance to a Public University with over 20,000 students and pretty much in the center of town. each unit is +/- 800 sf 2BR/1Bath and each unit only needs some minor renovations to bring it up to snuff (carpet and paint).

Hello everyone! I just finished up my third year out of five at college and I am looking to learn more about real estate investing (duh). My two friends and I recently had a pretty bad experience with a landlord which...

Hello everyone,I am a freshman college student attending LA Tech University in the Fall.

More crying.  

But me cautious with those numbers has students are not always year round and can be hard on the properties.