Sorry for the bad news, but I think it might be tough to implement your strategy at this current time.

One reason why I prefer the series is that it is not necessary to implement the series aspect of a series until one is ready.

However, if the program is expensive (like ones in the 40k range) and you have to go into credit card debt for it (which could likely really negatively effect your ability to get loans to actually implement the strategies learned) and you don’t have much experience running a successful business, then generally it is not a good idea.I wholeheartedly agree with both Mary and Jay.

You could implement a RUBS program (Ratio Utility Billing System).

Ideally, I'd like to implement the BRRRR strategy or house-hack to live for free (or as little as possible) throughout college.

Instead of looking at one being "better" than the other, you should try to learn each other's methods so you can decide to implement the other's (or not).I'd personally choose the real estate every time because I understand it better, I'm more comfortable with the risk, and I'm passionate about it.

I have only pulled together a couple of real estate videos to dateOmar - I have not implemented this for commercial real estate yet, but given that 82% of internet traffic will be online video by 2021 (according to Cisco: http://techblog.comsoc.org/2017/06/10/cisco-increa...) the possibilities are endless - from virtual tours of commercial property to videos describing the market and so on.Are you using video in your business at all at the moment?

Best of luck on creating and implementing your plan of action!

I have only been using it for some of the tenants and haven’t implemented it across my entire portfolio yet.  

Now, this is all dependent on your strategy (and money to implement it) but if I target off market properties in a state of disrepair then my down payment could be 0%...or I could target on market properties and use traditional financing and need 20% down.