Eliminate college loan assistance, put it back in the banks hands to collect higher rates.

Situation: I am renting a 4 bedroom apartment in a duplex in a college area and have 4 college students interested in renting it.

And for college students, you're going to want something that will be pretty resilient.

Many of our tenants were college or young families, very few shacking up singles and a few mature tenats.

LOLSee if you can find a real commercial brokerage as Joel suggested.If you want classroom study, see what you can find at a local college or university on the subject and stay away from gurus.And, guess that also means what you call "commercial" a 6 plex or a shopping mall, maybe an industrial complex on 20 acres?

You obviously have no real experience or time on the job, but you are sure this guy who has an advanced college degree, has taken and passed the state bar exam, has closed hundreds of real estate deals, and has over 30 years of experience has no clue what he is talking about, but you are a bastion of knowledge that he is arrogant to underestimate?

Good morning all,I'm a recent college graduate currently navigating the corporate world. 

For Keene, given that I grew up in Claremont and Keene is much nicer, I don't really avoid any areas, more I look for walking distance to shops and the colleges.

Seems like you can pick up good cash flowing properties (2% rule even) near the college that students would want to live in, but there are also terrible areas right around the college you'd likely want to avoid.

Most new investors out of college will find it hard to come up with 20% of that after just a year or even two.