Convenience and access to shops, bars, food ~ all those benefits are appealing to millennials (and increasingly to baby boomers, actually).

They do shop around for you.

I can tell you this, where I stay it's student accommodation flats all around and a few shopping center buildings.

The 3 unrelated rule can be overcome, but with an extra occupancy designation, see article in Coloradoan for a start point http://www.coloradoan.com/story/money/business/201...Let me know if you want to grab coffee, I would love to network and talk shop with a local Fort Collins Investor!!

It is somewhat difficult for Canadians but probably easier for American investors.

I'm up for trying to set up at a coffee shop or something like that.

Many Americans could save hundreds of thousands of dollars by following index funds.

Also know as American Real Estate School,  and they have Florida on-line classes below $200.  

So you may need to shop around for a lender that knows how to work with a VA loan.

I shopped around and got a much better deal and then I raised my deductable to the max.