Calculate what your realistic savings would be between the loans and decide if it's worth the effort/time factor.

You will start to learn how much effort each class or area takes and calculate your expected time.

Besides, I keep being genuinely interested in REI field, trying to discover new things and develop my knowledge in it all the time.

Or are you okay with putting your effort into investing while you have a steady job and 60k less student debt.

Do you plan for any kind of displacement funds to put your tenants up while your property gets fixed in an effort to retain a long term renter?

I rode my bike past large, vacant building with broken windows and boarded up fronts that could've been bought for less than $100,000.Then about 1997-2006, a major revitalization effort hit. 

Put your efforts into the good applicants not the bad ones.Simple pass or fail.

There are ways around everything if you choose to put in the effort.

My company offered and has done lease options (but not since the law change in 2010), but only in an effort to effect portfolio changes.

I suspect I will hit a point when it is not worth the time/effort.