To me, this is the mindset I would expect from their generation, but I wanted to present them a potential alternative and wanted to get your thoughts on how you might handle the situation...There are likely several options they have, but the one I'm considering bringing up to them is this:1.

Tactics with the correct mind set will lead to the results you want over time.Tom

I deferred the corporate route after 6 years as an Air Force Officer and am now a full-time real estate investor and Realtor in Destin, FL and Los Angeles, CA.All of your options sound solid, but just curious if you are excited to go the more corporate route or if you have more of an entrepreneur/business mindset and want to build something?

I would have no problem renting to the 20-year old, but the 16-year old should not be on the lease, nor allowed to live there without a co-signed lease from her parents.

This is a special IRA set up where someone else, besides the child, such as a parent or family member may make contributions for the child.

I own a rental in Colorado but my parents have always rented it so I would still call myself a beginner, especially in the property management side. lolLooking to purchase some homes around Charleston and Summerville and always looking for a good deal to go bigger and get into multi-family units as well.

I have the opportunity of a parent who has offered to purchase a house in cash and allow me to make monthly payments to them to slowly purchase the home from them at 0%.  

I currently do not owe a house, but my parents have thought about doing a HELOC (home equity line of credit) to help me buy a side-by-side duplex.

She said their parents would be paying the rent.

Students can have parent guarantors and often have lower and more manageable per person costs.