Reminds me of old class discussions in college.

If not, how have your experiences been renting to college students/young professionals in general?

I'm a college student trying to understand the front door and back door approach theory and how to calculate them.

Having my engineering degree helps the transition to residential sector.

I am a credit analyst at a local bank and have been working at the bank in various positions since I was in college.

As an example, I'm closing on a property next week in Greeley that's near a university and is strictly for renting to college students.

this is just an idea and if i lose interest in the animal shelter non-profit, i'd likely get into some other non-profit function anyways as since college, i've always been into environmental & humanitarian efforts (mostly overseas) one way or another.

There are no colleges, and high schools are some of the lowest rated in the state, if the whole beach rental thing doesn't work out you would be left with a worthless property. 

(unless on-campus college housing while matriculated counts)neither have ever owned an apt/condo nor ever in an HOA subdivision. just not into sardine living nor living under house rules.it wreaks of irony in my opinion if an re investor owns real estate (whether commercial or residential), yet leases their residence from another owner. however, there are many scenarios that would justify that, ie, a commercial investor who owns his own store/office and a portfolio of other commercial props, but for residence, simply choses to rent.likewise, what i've actually seen in MOST cases is real estate investors who have a huge portfolio of residences owned, but RENT their commercial office. that's pretty much the norm, so its good to acknowledge the fact that many/most re investors do not own their commercial place of business (if any), but rent it from someone else!

My background is that I grew up in Cambridge, MA and then went out of state for college and have been working outside of MA ever since.