How are people do this?

Is it as simple as driving around and figuring it out?  

I came across this article from Kellogg Insight showing how online sports betting is eating into people’s savings.

I am an out of state investor.How have dealt with this issue>Neal Schadler There are multiple property managers in the "build your investing team" section that can help here. 

Following this thread as well.

Funny enough, I was going to suggest you move out of SF due to the high cost ;-) I'd suggest going down the SF condo route to start as financing for commercial units is a lot more difficult than residential properties.

. - Thought you might want to check out my response to this original post too. 

Hope this helps. 

@Jose Saladin you will likely not get a CO (certificate of occupancy) to be able to legally rent this out.

You and your husband are definitely in the right place to get valuable information.