Mays Business School to Offer Landlording Major Starting 2024

This Monday, Mays Business School announced plans to introduce a B.S. degree in Landlord Sciences for students inspired by the adage that “you have to spend money to make money.” The degree path, which will follow a standard core curriculum before diverging into 120 hours of major-specific courses, is built around capitalizing on current real estate trends in the United States. With the production of Housing in College Station becoming is a booming business as the student population continues to grows, and the town is ever-fertile ground for potential landlords. The Mays professors have little doubt that students will be able to get out in the field and experience for themselves the career-defining acquisition of home-hungry tenants, and perhaps even witness the excitement of evicting those unwilling to pay market price for rent.

A sample of courses taught will include LNLD 201: Passing a Credit Check, LNLD 211: Rent Hike Strategy and LNLD 464: Tax Liability Mitigation, a class on how to pay the least tax possible when transitioning wealth from one’s parents with as little paid in taxes as possible.

As a proof of concept, Mays professor Dr. Brockton Tamsley taught a single 3 three-hour landlording course in fall 2021. Students largely reported that the material was unchallenging, almost to an astonishing degree, with a typical homework assignment consisting of writing a report on applying concepts from the board game “Monopoly” to real-life scenarios. The capstone project was simply scoping out decades-old homeowner properties in south College Station which could be flipped for a profit.

One student anonymously reported an uncomfortable tangent from Dr. Tamsley in which he proclaimed the property developers from the beginning of Pixar’s 2009 film “Up” to be the true heroes of the story.

Given the rising As the cost of owning land rises in the United States, the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship plans to hold bi-annual pitch competitions offering to cover down payments for aspiring landlords who show promise in their fields. “There is no reason that high interest rates, irrelevant credit discrepancies, or the ever-rising cost of living should keep our graduates from becoming landlords achieving their dream of owning a home, or specifically from renting that home out to residents at market price,” says said McFerrin representative Katy Rhodes. “The McFerrin Center exists to bring these dreams to fruition.”

 

— Downtown Cryin’