It’s near the city college and would be great for student rental.

I live in a rural college town and could easily have a family or students interested in property I purchase.

You can see why when you compare CA distance to AZ vs CA distance to TNWherever you choose to invest, I'd strongly urge you to visit the property before you buy.

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.So I am a college student about to get married looking for a house to live in.

As for debt, I have about 12k left on a government student loan at 4.5%. 

As educators this is one area we tend to fail our students. 

Our tenants are a combination of students, young professionals, and families.

Being 16 I'm guessing you don't have many financial obligations yet: mortgage, car payments, student loans. 

You don't have to have a degree plan or take on student loans to go in and take a basic business or marketing class if you feel like it would be beneficial. 

We’d go and live in student housing for two years (I’m a grad school student) which saves us 1100 a month compared to staying and I’d reduce my commute by about 1.5 hours each day. we’d take that 143 and pay off all our debt and have some seed capital for the next project.