Is it really worth getting up early every morning and driving to the factory or office?

The key to investing in hotels is to locate markets where the supply/demand factor is balanced. 

Perhaps the appreciation factor is worth it?

Places with SFH home values of 200k or less that have had factory jobs shipped overseas, or have been too rural to consider settling in. 

Others may need to be creative, you just need to make sure you hit a simple savings rate and invest competently. i appreciate the advice. my plan is to be saving about 75k/year while I'm paying off student loans and then jump up to about 125-135k/yr once loans are paid off. since my most immediate term goal is to reach partial FI (have the FI to work part time) I see REI as a means via cash flow.the other complicating factor is I think the financial prospects for my field are quite bearish and anticipate a decline in salary in the long term due to: -decreased reimbursement from medicare, increase in PAs/NPs, and and significant increase in residency training programs which will create a surplus of Emergency Physicians -- all of this leads me to believe that if I want to maintain a high savings rate in the future I may have to work even more to get the same income I'm currently getting.

Doesn't need to be grade-A yuppie heaven by any means, but also think we'd feel awkward in a factory worker neighborhood.

Where will they put their HDQ and factory?   

So, with future RE investments preservation of capital is important factor. I

https://electrek.co/2020/05/15...The author of the article admits Tesla has not publicly confirmed the deal but this development could be worth tracking.  

That's a dumb way to look at the issue; one is a multinational company with 70+ factories and the other is a small business who probably doesn't have 70 employees.