Initially I was going to pay off our student loans with that money, but the value minded side of me just kept thinking about using that money for an investment and using the income generated by the investment to pay our student loan payments and still having the capital at the end of everything, so I started shopping for another house.  

My next investment will hopefully be a place in Irving for one of my kids to live in while attending grad school, and hopefully find some other students to pay for it...This looks like a good site.

I hold an MBA from UCF and I am currently in the process of setting myself up for success in the investment arena by clearing out my family's debt (student loans and car payment).

The thing is I am just a college student.

Seeing that most college graduates leave school with a mountain of debt versus their income from their employment I was wondering if anybody has had any luck securing traditional financing with a high student debt to income ratio?

I've failed 4 times (2 HUD flips, 2 rentals) when trying to invest on my own so far so I need to take a different approach...plus those failures drained my self-directed IRA of pretty much all capital so I'm starting over - not unlike the student in The Richest Man in Babylon.

Currently I am a college student studying Communication and I hope to be able to one day become a real estate professional.

I am a college student in Eugene, OR and I feel as though I have wasted my past three years working in the restaurant industry.

I'm going to have to deal with the turnover, luckily I'm close to NC State and can count on a steady flow of students to live there.  

Say someone has tons of student loan debt, no savings, only asset being a 10 year old car worth $3,000, damaged credit due to some student loans in collections because salaries didn't match debt over time and couldn't keep up with payments, and who currently doesn't have a full time job because their hours and fees were severely cut.