I am straight out of college and interested in purchasing my first rental property within the year.

There are many ways to market and network your services online and off.

I personally have never used a mailer and just do online marketing with my website because SEO is my specialty (and its free besides purchase of domain/hosting).Also last word is don't get discouraged if this is really what you want to do.

I actually lived a few doors down from this property when I was in college.

Yes, I did the online classroom.

It's not going to be a creative financing class but what it will teach is the use of assets which is what creative financing is based on.As to difficulty, it's a class usually offered at the 2nd year of undergraduate work in college.

@Nate Hollembaek I am in the Portland area so I do not know the Eugene market extremely well, but I do know enough about it that I think it is a fairly stable market for buy and hold investments because of the fact that it is a college town as well as an attractive city for people to live in long term.Not to sound too cliché, but you should probably get connected with a local real estate investors association there.

We live in a college town, so we have always had the idea of rental income in the back of our mind.

I'm new to this site and just graduated from college.

Nolo press books at the library, gale databases at the library, the online sites are all basically diy.