Understanding your market, what you are offering, and the kind of tenant you can expect to attract and KEEP will help you determine how to screen.

What kind of premium has your wife received for monthly leases in SF?

@JJ MacConnell Thanks for the kind words!

For investors focused on socially responsible projects, this balance can attract support from communities and municipalities.5.

That's kind of what I figured, the last public ballot measure vote to deny rezoning was late 2023.

You can increase rents if the market supports it.

Only large corporations can withstand this kind of risk.

This jumps out to me as lowest risk, greatest scalability in shortest time, making it most viable to achieve the kind of income sought. 

Focus on one or two target markets, get familiar with the numbers, and use tools like BP calculators to analyze potential properties.Whether you start now or after graduation depends on your bandwidth, just have the right systems and support in place first.

Kind of the mentality of the war torn countries like Angola/DR Congo - where leadership thinks "get them conflicts going and get them blood diamonds making us rich".