We feel (as do other authors we have read) that a college education is important to gain much needed academic knowledge and personal growth/maturity. 

Since starting my RE investment plan a little over a year ago, I now have 6 units... and I'm laser focused on getting to 20+ units over the next few years so I can finally "retire" from the academic cult (it makes you wonder how professors at business schools get the nerve to teach MBAs when most don't have any significant wealth themselves...those are my colleagues but I digress!) 

I finished school recently and when I lived on campus it was about 5k per academic year, which likely won’t be enough to buy a house.Finally if you find a way around those main issues, have realistic goals as to what your cash flow looks like.

The challenge now is it is the wrong time to be looking for "good" tenants as the academic year has already begun.

There are some highfalutin academics that dislike IRR because it yields more than one solution in certain cases (like more than one negative cash flow) and there are some other small problems with it.

Half of these academic professors have never had a real job in their life..

(Boring and academic, I know.

Freshman's book is a bit academic for my taste.

I've also met many Asian students that have come to the US that are surprised to find the academic level here to be so much lower than what they are expected to achieve especially in a public school.

In addition to his success in his academic and 9-5 career, Andrew has also been the CFO for all of the ventures we’ve run together.