Buy for cash flow and make sure there's something keeping the area hopping (a good college, multiple large employers, government agencies, etc) and the rest should work out. 

Looking for the best way to finance single family houses as college student rentals. 20-25% down payment is no problem, but my lender seems set on doing a commercial loan - shorter term, higher rate, much higher monthly payments, and scary balloon due after X number of years. 

And...Millennials were even more likely to have made an offer sight-unseen, with 41 percent saying they had done so, compared with 30 percent of Gen-Xers and 12 percent of baby boomers....These folks are mostly college grads, and mostly had a course or two in college that touched on Game Theory, if not algorithmic "if... then" type thinking that was incidental/implicit as part of some programming course, so it is entirely unsurprising to me that my generation is doing this disproportionately.

Being a soon to be college graduate, it's fairly obvious I don't have all that much to work with.

Where I live, most people who have reasonably desirable houses near a college or university know what they have and don't want to give it up.

When I was 12 years old, I started a lawn care business in my neighborhood that I ended up keeping until I was out of college with a “real” full time job.

We had a duplex we used to provide a washer and dryer, most of our tenants there were right out of college. 

We just bought a a house last month in a college town that has three young 20's tenants.

I've been examining slightly distressed properties, with the hope of performing a good amount of renovations on the property to get a higher ARV.However, I'm a college student with little knowledge of the cost of maintenance/repairs on a home.

If I was starting out today (assuming no family out of college or during college), I would find who ever I liked the most and offer to work them for free and work my tail off until they hired me .