The early blemish set a poor tone to the showings.

Glad to find like-minded individuals that are willing to make those sacrifices upfront in order to enjoy serious gains in the future!!

One idea we had was to rent individual bedrooms to students around $800 each.

You have to understand their individual needs more deeply and get creative.

If you are filing Schedule E (Individual tax return) you have to do that anyways. 

I'm looking at getting at minimum a 4 bedroom house and will rent 3 of the rooms individually to young professionals.  

1) Rich Dad Poor Dad (READ THIS DAMN BOOK)2) I Will Teach You To Be Rich (Hands down 110% the best book EVER, this WILL change your life as I can attest to as I'm implementing the tips in my life now) 3) Set For Life (This is the mindset and goals you must have to achieve Financial Freedom)4) The One Thing (What can YOU do NOW to BENEFIT you later)5) The Four Hour Work Week (No it's not about working 4hrs a week, it's about optimising your time and it works!)

I think what you mentioned was what I was trying to say (rather poorly) on checklist item #3. 

I'm not saying that you need to get into construction but no matter what you do you sell your service to your individual client.

Individual stocks?