one avenue of investing I have considered is providing student housing for the local community college in my hometown. 

I have never participated in any type of syndication.

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Think high school student council. 

@Ralph Poirier do you find student rentals are destroyed more than rentals to working individuals?

Ye Ole Wall 'o text to follow:We have ZERO debt, no mortgage, no car payments, student loans, NADA Debt.

I'm not familiar with Waverly, but I had heard that Wartburg now requires students to live on campus for the first couple of years, whereas they didn't before.

Gary runs a successful business, is well respected in the circles in which we all overlap, and he has mentored many successful students. 

I do not wholesale nor do I allow any of the agents who work at my brokerage to participate in the activity.As a licensed agent you have a duty to give the seller of a property an accurate representation of the value of their property.

In fact, I found them to be pretty ineffective for an all-utilities included rental because it assumed that I would be in full control of the Internet, which there was no way I was taking ownership over in a student rental.