I think it was partly cultural, and partly to save money. 

The boyfriends uncle is apparently wealthy and is paying for them to live while in school.

College kids come in all sorts of types from the top ramen eating shoe string budget to the kids of wealthy parents who send their kids to college with a credit card that they pay.

Heck yeah you ought to take an attorney's advice into consideration when drafting a rental agreement and I'd HIGHLY recommend getting some referrals on that as well, you want one who's well versed LOCALLY in what flies and what doesn't, which here as was explained to myself and at least one other BP member attended, plus many more (and a rather "famous" BP member at that who I recognized from her profile pic, but she certainly seems to know what she's doing with rentals and was at the same event, a "landlord bootcamp" where the local attorney who I've been told is THE BEST landlord atty to call in a crisis taught the ins and outs of this stuff) but part of what he explained was how in Milwaukee Cty the judiciary of this county of nearly 1M residents which ranges from very poor areas to very wealthy areas has mostly very liberal, left leaning judges who generally ALWAYS find any reason they can to take the tenant's side and often give some awful tenants "one more chance" much to the landlord's chagrin.

I guess it is a cultural thing.  

If all of your tenants would be Spanish-speaking and you can't speak it fluently, or don't know the culture, I don't think you should buy it.The Mexican culture is tricky for non-Mexicans.  

People that appear affluent, but will only be able to rent, and in turn, make us investors more wealthy.

The one that creates the most wealth is appreciation.

It speaks so poorly of our culture that so many people balk at the idea of an open and honest discussion of money, investments and assets with even the person they're in a relationship with.So many posters have automatically assumed this will lead to an argument or a breakup.  

Well done reaching $500,000 members imagine now sharing $1.00 from every member as an investment to create a syndicated operation of pro-members  for everone to "tap"into as a vetted fund -- a financial reserve to do single-family, multi-family, commercial properties-- since there is strength in numbers as a cooperative AKA as a pooled investment for even more growth in doing real estate transactions for years 2016 to 2030.This would eliminate private lenders, hard money lenders, angel investors or banks (I so dispise banks and their non-best practices) the reality is similar to an "acre of diamonds" where wealth is in your back yard (see my post in innovative strategies) to convert non-members into pro members...just saying