Depending on which strategy you use (BRRRR, Flip, Buy&Hold) is going to dictate how you will find/ have funding for the next home. unless you have hundreds of thousands saved up to buy and flip homes and still keep a nest egg on the side for any potential unforeseen changes, I would use OPM(other peoples money)  using bank financing to secure the property and from there you leave a ton of options.

It’s smart to have that nest of 100k ready to use as down payments. 

We've already sold more than half our buildings, and have a nest egg that will give us 80% of our living expenses if we retired now, and our buildings give us 120% of our living expenses, (so 200% total needs met).

For the most part, this naturally screens out problem tenants because A) the higher price point of a remote-worker type rental is self-selecting and B) the tenants are by their nature not looking to stay a long time, potentially nest and dirty up a place or to try to overstay.

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My husband and I are thinking of tearing down the house we have lived in for 16 years and building a new house to increase our retirement nest egg.

We suspect they're nesting up in the crawlspace under the house.

If I were in your position, I would work like crazy including any OT and side jobs you can pick up to build your nest egg first.

However, due to a job loss and my wife on extended maternity leave - we are less than attractive investors looking to buy.My question is, given this newly found abundance of time on my hands (with less than optimal finances available at the moment to invest), what would experienced RE investors recommend as a great avenue to get my feet wet and prepped for when I can buy and rehab my own properties while also helping build that nest egg to start?

It's not an accumulation strategy or nest egg, it's a down payment fund meant to be used and paid back to be used again.