My target area is Essex county Newark, NJ (University Heights) to be exact. 

Looking for my first buy and hold rental in the neighboring communities around South Alabama University in Mobile, Alabama.

I also have an MBA from the University of Chicago.

I have since found myself based in Berlin, Germany, and I am currently investigating my options for further study here, as I have not yet attended university, and if I do begin studying here it will be in Economics and Finance. 

Thank you both Jamal and Kenneth for your info.May the UNIVERSE BLESS YOU BOTH !!!

My husband can work from anywhere and I'd like to find a position working for a university, so we hope to move the summer of 2018.

Deal c)This is in center of a midsize city that universities ect.

Even though physically this is near the four universities on university heights, as far as the students are concerned it is in another country.  

Is that the real estate downturn, or the oil downturn, gold downturn, silver, hog bellies or whatever they're trading an hour or so south of me in Chicago  . . . and of course for all of those downturns, you can find the exact opposite predictions from SOMEONE for anything and literally you could spend all of 2017 watching non stop youtube videos, listening to "financial whiz" podcasts and interviews, there's the screaming "I'm bald but refuse to do the shave your whole head trend since I'm too busy screaming about stocks all of the time" stock dork on CNBC or wherever he is (maybe MSNBC-oh wait, they've got the entire on air staff on 24/7 suicide watch since the election results came in at MSNBC) Anyway, point is that you can literally find someone pushing ANY prediction and what is also very troubling is that MANY who push the "downturn" scenarios and ESPECIALLY the "major downturn" or even the incredible # of "global economic collapse is any day now, might even be tomorrow!!"

I graduated from Ohio State University and invested very close to this area when I started because I understood it very well, the tenants, etc.