You could look into finding properties with large bedrooms and try renting out the rooms to college students if you find that you cannot afford a multi in the area also.

We both have fairly extensive student loan debts with a total of around $220,000.

I'm a sophomore college student majoring in Real Estate & Finance at Indiana Univesity.

Looking at real estate prices in other parts of the country, I feel much more confident in my ability to afford the initial start-up fees of purchasing an investment property on my current teacher salary.Has anyone had any luck with their first property being out of state?

After work I would self study on software, took several MOOC classes, youtube until I found good teachers, etc. 

But just not sure who to pick... that last couple look working class and have two older kids and she has bad credit because she said she has student loans ( which does not explain why the credit is bad to me ) and the hubby has no credit at all... 

We are both teachers so we thought this was out of our possibilities, however, after 3 live in flips, we were able to build our dream house with our own private beach without getting a loan!!

The broker was also a realty school instructor and the contractor is his realty student.

Lubbock is one of only two markets in Texas that had rental prices drop--McDougal is crushing the competition right now--he and American Campus Communities are building those huge resort student multifamily buildings and destroying the student rental market. 

Teacher is excellent and all evening classes are free.