However, if you've picked up on signs of potentially problematic behavior during your interactions, you might be able to highlight them by adding “good tenant conduct” to your list of standards. 

Remember when land buyers pick a target, they have TONS of work to do getting that property from dirt to payday, so they know their purchase choices, and they have a war chest usually stacked up ready to go.

I would pick a market area you like and start doing a bunch of deep dive deal analysis, but from a rental and not a life style standpoint.  

Maybe I can even pick up some tips on how to be a better loan officer as well.

At the numbers you are talking about and where the market is heading you could pick up some very high quality NNN national credit tenant properties as commercial continues to recover. 

Now that I laid out the various details important to a listing, i bet you'll notice and pick em out as you view through this.  

How confident are you that you'll be able to pick up something good in the 2-4 unit space? 

And then drive by to pick them all up.

Think on that, a person has an 80%+ chance of there "pick" not just loosing, but possibly going to $0..... 

Thankfully I picked the right sponsor LOL.