The best teacher is your last mistake.

I'm a typical American middle-class dude working a full time job with some consumer debt, student loans, three little kids and a wife that works--it's tough to put money away. 

The college is fairly large at around 16,000-17,000 students.

You are a software developer/student?

Need more info to address that situation.Someone like Keianna above can help you through stuff, even remotely, (there are the same big box stores everywhere), and Mindy Jensen has written a lot of articles on finding students etc to help with design.

Or else College Park MD since you'll always have an abundant of college students/grads/professionals.

For one, all our other debit is now a right off (minus student loans of course).

Be a primary resident in that property for 2 years following the purchaseAt 27 years old without very little obligations besides a relatively substantial student loan debt and minimal credit card debts, my idea is to use this as an opportunity to put a down payment on a home, in particular a multifamily home, and create a house-hacking opportunity for myself where I aggressively pay off the mortgage and live for free in the meantime.Feel free to be as blunt as possible, the reason I cannot ask my family/friends is for their biased opinion on the matter.

I also pay my student loan payment every month on time so that helps a little.

Also one of my students hung a Bandit Sign up and on that one sign someone called him and on that one deal he made $500k in 3 weeks.