You can use the knowledge in passive real estate investing that you gain and share it with your clients - most of whom are probably W2 earners who, like you, don't have time to become a focused active investor.Active investing has a lot of benefits - it just isn't at all passive, even the "passive" turnkey kind - I am a big believer in matching your investing to your lifestyle. 

How to Create Wealth Investing in real estate: Grant Cardone (Great to get started, and visualize your journey forward), and Lifestyle Investor:Justin Donald (great for mobile home parks and general investment thinking), Am I Being too Subtle: Sam Zell ( Not specific to multifamily, but really good to understand Sam Zells journey spanning a few decades and financial forces which contributed to his great fortune).

I know I could go drive around and write addresses down, but I will only have 2 days a week/ 3 hours at a time to do this, with my busy life style  I think batch will probably be best because it already has everything integrated into their system.3rd. when using services what works best? 

As @Frank Jiang said, maybe a few employees working for the institutional players, working a hundred hours a week so they can have a nice salary and upper-middle-class lifestyle funded largely by debt and overspending, but actual people who actually salt away the wealth?

Generally speaking, a beachfront property will be more for lifestyle than for investment, unless it is high end.

I want to maintain this lifestyle and ability to travel, as I did in my last position before my current one.

Lots of people in the Bay Area are selling townhomes and condos right now, because the “Cramped Covid Condo” lifestyle is not what they signed up for.

This is what you get when for decades you pursue a policy of endless "California lifestyle" of single family homes and single-occupant automobiles connected by roads wider than any reasonable person, except for a traffic engineer, would ever conceive of.Our politicians are business owners and landlords too, of course they want to perpetuate the status quo.

Properties on or near the water (TN has gorgeous lakes & rivers) are hot as people edge away from big city & Draconian Covid restrictive lifestyle.

(Forbes)Lower business & lifestyle costs than others.Amazingly affordable real estate for investment.Single-family, duplexes, fourplexes.3-year appreciation forecast of 9.1%.Around 45% of the residents are renters.The growing fuels the rental demand.San Antonio is also known for its low cost of living.Closed sales increased by 14 percent year-over-year.Compared to June 2019, San Antonio's average price of a home increased by 3%.Year-to-date, the average price has shown an increase of 5% to $278,395.In a year-to-date, year-over-year comparison, Bexar County faired well compared to Travis (-10.7%) Harris (-4.9%) and Dallas County (-6.8%.)Each of these counties indicates a decrease while Bexar county shows a promising a 3.4% increase.As predicted, June has shown to be a strong buying season.