With oil on a rebound and Trump doing what he does it should be a record year.

Don't touch your money for vacations or other non-investments.Stocks are much more liquid than real estate, and on average earn 5-10% annually which trumps savings accounts.

This is where "lender credits" or "discount points" come in.Aaaand it's FHA, so you can crank that dial way the heck over to knock out nearly all of your closing costs, and then open some of the streamline FHA refinance junk mail that will arrive the second you make your 6th payment to drop that rate right back down (assuming nothing gets Trumped).

@Donald D Michna depends on how much your student loans are, what your current income is and what you plan to do with investing.  

Being a college student, you do not need to show two years of previous employment history, as being a student trumps any sort of required employment (you may have to provide transcripts).

Great deals are few and far between and cash-flowing rentals are as scarce as Trump supporters.

Actually posted about this a couple of months ago after the Trump Effect brought MF interest rates up .75%. 

Hey BP,With rising interest rates, and Trump's proposed tax plan to cap or eliminate the mortgage interest deduction, are you expecting prices to fall?

What I am saying is that it is worse for some things and better for others, but the things it is better for get absolutely trumped by the cons encountered from investing from a distance.

REI is the only investment where you really don't have to spend any of your money...just use it an infinite number of times, and that is the main reason it trumps the stock market exponentially.